On the Eve The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

Name: On the Eve The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
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ISBN: 9781416594277

ISBN-10: 1416594272

ISBN-13: 9781416594277

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bernard Wasserstein

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On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein’s original and provocative book presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.Wasserstein shows how the harsh political and social realities of the age devastated the private lives of individuals and families. He demonstrates that, by 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack.From Vilna (the “Jerusalem of Lithuania”) to Salonica with its Judeo-EspaÑol-speaking stevedores and singers, and from the Soviet Jewish “homeland” of Birobidzhan to Amsterdam (the…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Bernard Wasserstein is professor of history at the University of Glasgow. The president of the Jewish Historical Society of England.



List Of Maps


Note On Transliterations and Places-Names


Glossary


Introduction



The Melting Glacier



The Christian Problem



Grandees and Grandstanders



From Shtetel To Shtot



New Jerusalems



Holy Men



Unholy Women



Luftmenshn



Non-Jewish Jews



The Linguistic Matrix



The Power Of The Word



A People Of Many Books



Masques Of Modernity



Youth



Utopias



InThe Cage, Trying To Get Out



Camping



On The Eve



tExistential Crisis


Epilogue: Fates Known and Unknown


Notes


Sources


Acknowledgements


Illustration Credits


Index