On the eve : the Jews of Europe before the Second World War / Bernard Wasserstein.
2012
DS135.E83 W36 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
On the eve : the Jews of Europe before the Second World War / Bernard Wasserstein.
Author
Wasserstein, Bernard.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781416594277 hardcover
1416594272 hardcover
9781416594284 paperback
1416594280 paperback
1416594272 hardcover
9781416594284 paperback
1416594280 paperback
Imprint
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 552 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DS135.E83 W36 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.892/40409041
Summary
Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack. Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-520 and index.
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Table of Contents
The melting glacier
The Christian problem
Grandees and grandstanders
From shtetl 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
In the cage, trying to get out
Camping
On the eve
Existential crisis
Epilogue: Fates known and unknown.
The Christian problem
Grandees and grandstanders
From shtetl 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
In the cage, trying to get out
Camping
On the eve
Existential crisis
Epilogue: Fates known and unknown.