The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933
Author(s): Amos Elon
The Pity of It All is the compelling, moving story of the German-Jewish people from the eighteenth century until the eve of Third Reich, tracing their journey from a persecuted clan of outcasts and peddlers into a dazzling community of writers, philosophers and scientists.
From Moses Mendelssohn, who entered Berlin through the gate reserved for Jews and cattle and went on to become one of Europe's greatest men of letters, to Rachel Levin, the famed hostess of glittering salons; from the decadent Weimar and the genius of Einstein to philosopher Hannah Arendt's terrified flight from the Gestap in 1933, this is the untold story of nearly 200 years of astonishing creativity and fragile integration. Evoking a tragically lost world, The Pity of It All is the unique collective biography of a people.
'A heart-rending story ... powerful ... marvellously readable' The Times
General Information
- :
- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.319
- : 01 August 2003
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Amos Elon
- : Paperback
- : APR04
- : 464
- : Illustrations, facsims., maps, ports.
More About The Product
Amos Elon is the author of eight widely praised books, including A Blood-Dimmed Tide, Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and the New York Times bestseller Israelis: Founders and Sons. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and the New York Review of Books, he divides his time between Jerusalem and Tuscany.
