The Wandering Jew Has Arrived

by Londres Albert

Overview

In 1929 Albert Londres, a non-Jew and renowned journalist, set out to document the lives of Jews at this time. His travels to England, Eastern Europe and finally Palestine produced the literary masterpiece, "The Wandering Jew has Arrived."

In the East End of London, Londres is moved by the unswerving faith of the Jews. In Eastern Europe he is astounded by the misery and plight he witnesses. The bleak picture is redeemed by his gentle humor, sharp observations and the unforgettable portraits he paints of the exotic individuals he encounters along his way. Londres vividly depicts the birth of Zionism and the wave of pogroms that propelled Jewish immigration to Palestine at the turn of the 20th century. In Palestine, he discovers the new “metamorphosed” Jew, and his succinct, harrowing descriptions of the Arab massacres of the Jews of Hebron and Safed expose an age-old animosity that is still very much alive today.

Presciently, Londres' investigation provides startling insight into how the unthinkable—the Holocaust—could happen, sweeping across Europe barely a decade after the publication of his book. His evocative, passionately and very personally told story transports readers back to a pivotal moment in history and offers an invaluable perspective on Jewish life in the early twentieth century, on the nascent days of the State of Israel, and on the ongoing strife that has engulfed the region ever since. The Wandering Jew Has Arrived is as relevant today as when first penned.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789652298898
Publisher:	Gefen Publishing House
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Albert Londres (1884-1932) was a pioneer of investigative journalism. In his search for truth, he traveled across the world documenting cruelty and injustice. His reports for the French press helped change public opinion and policies towards penal colonies, forced labor, mental asylums and the exploitation of black Africans.

Table of Contents

Introduction v

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

A Bizarre Personage 1

We Return to Chicksand Street 8

The Heart of Israel Still Beats 15

Theodor Herzl 22

The Journey of the Jews 32

Here They Are! 40

And This Is Only Mukachevo! 47

The Feral Jews 54

I Met the Wandering Jew 62

The Specter 70

The Meiselmann Family 77

The Pioneer from Palestine 85

Do You Want to Go to Jerusalem? 93

The Lwow Ghetto 101

In Contrast…Warsaw! 108

The Rabbi Factory 116

Your Purse or Your Furniture 122

The Miracle-Making Rabbi 130

Goodbye, Ben! 138

The Promised Land 145

At the Price of Bloodshed 154

The Wailing Wall 161

Hey! Europe! 164

The Soldiers of the Grand Mufti 171

See You Soon! 178

The Joy of Being Jewish 185

Wandering Jew, Have You Arrived? 192

About the Author 199

Editorial Reviews

I highly recommend The Wandering Jew Has Arrived, especially for students of history, and anyone interested in Jewish life in Europe and Palestine before the Holocaust.

Israellycool - Dave Lan

Read today, The Wandering Jew Has Arrived can be seen as a chilling and prophetic piece of historical reportage. And so, a dozen years after the Balfour Declaration, he began his investigations into the economic status of the Jews in Europe and their views on Zionism.

Jewish Review of Books - Diane Cole

The quality of Londres' noticing is itself worthy of our notice. It allows us to take a fresh, retrospective glance, however aching, over the nearly nine decades that have intervened between his way of noticing and ours. "Our profession is not to give pleasure, nor to do harm," Londres once said. "It is to twist the pen into the wound." In giving voice to a Jewish world on the eve of rupture, unhealed to this day, his pen found its full measure of poetry and eloquence.

Haaretz - Benjamin Balint