Author: WASSERSTEIN, BERNARD
Title: On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War.
Description: London, Profile Books. 2012, 1st edition. xxii + 522 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliography. In this provocative book, Bernard Wasserstein presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. The author introduces a diverse array of characters: holy men and hucksters, beggars and bankers, politicians and poets, housewives and harlots, and, in an especially poignant chapter, children without a future. The geographical range also is vast: from Vilna (the �"œJerusalem 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. Hardcover with dustjacket, very good, AS NEW.

Keywords: Judaism/Judaica/Holocaust/Jewish/Jiddish/Anti Semitism/ 1930's


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