Buy this book on-line Wasserstein, Bernard : On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World WarSimon & Schuster, 2012 ISBN 9781416594277
On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. [This] original and provocative book presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught.In the 1930s, as Europe spiraled toward the Second World War, the continent's Jews faced an existential crisis. The harsh realities of the age--anti-Semitic persecution, economic discrimination, and an ominous climate of violence--devastated Jewish communities and shattered the lives of individuals....Demographic collapse, social disintegration, and cultural dissolution were all taking their toll. The problem was not just Nazism: In the summer of 1939 more Jews were behind barbed wire outside the Third Reich than within it, and not only in police states but even in the liberal democracies of the West...Unlike most previous accounts it focuses not on the anti-Semites but on the Jews... The geographical range also is vast: from Vilna (the "Jerusalem of the North") to Amsterdam, Vienna, Warsaw, and Paris, from the Judeo-Espagnol-speaking stevedores of Salonica to the Yiddish-language collective farms of Soviet Ukraine and Crimea. ... Based on comprehensive research, rendered with compassion and empathy, and brought alive by telling anecdotes and dry wit, .... a vivid and enlightening picture of the European Jews in their final hour.551p. plates bibliography, index.. Book. Book Condition: New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Wasserstein, Bernard : On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, out-of-print books, libri rari, incunabula and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |