The Wandering Jews
Contributors: Michael Hoffman (Translator); Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: December 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781862073920
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Jewish studies; Urban communities; Eastern Europe
First sentence: The Eastern Jew in his homeland knows nothing of the social injustice of the West; nothing of the habitual bias that governs the actions, decisions, and opinions of the average Western European; nothing of the narrowness of the Western perspective, jagged with factory smokestacks and framed by power plants; nothing of the sheer hatred that, like a life-prolonging (though lethal) drug, is so powerful that it is tended like a sort of Eternal Flame, at which these selfish people and nations warm themselves.