Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933

Amos Elon
4.38/5 (663 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Third Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance.

Writing with a novelist's eye, Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons and activists. He peoples his account with dramatic figures: Moses Mendelssohn, who entered Berlin in 1743 through the gate reserved for Jews and cattle, and went on to become "the German Socrates;" Heinrich Heine, beloved lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin signaled the end of the German-Jewish idyll. Elon traces how this minority-never more than one percent of the population-came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity, and he movingly demonstrates that this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end.

A collective biography, full of depth and compassion, The Pity of It All summons up a splendid world and a dream of integration and tolerance that, despite all, remains the essential ennobling project of modernity.
(less)
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0312422814
ISBN13:
9780312422813
kindle Asin:
B00CGFGT6Q

The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933

Amos Elon
4.38/5 (663 ratings)
Read Download
As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Third Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance.

Writing with a novelist's eye, Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons and activists. He peoples his account with dramatic figures: Moses Mendelssohn, who entered Berlin in 1743 through the gate reserved for Jews and cattle, and went on to become "the German Socrates;" Heinrich Heine, beloved lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin signaled the end of the German-Jewish idyll. Elon traces how this minority-never more than one percent of the population-came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity, and he movingly demonstrates that this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end.

A collective biography, full of depth and compassion, The Pity of It All summons up a splendid world and a dream of integration and tolerance that, despite all, remains the essential ennobling project of modernity.
(less)
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0312422814
ISBN13:
9780312422813
kindle Asin:
B00CGFGT6Q

More Books

The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands

Amir Tibon

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

Adam Kirsch

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

Raghuram G. Rajan

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Tom Holland

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

József Debreczeni

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

Too Loud a Solitude

Bohumil Hrabal

Two Lives of Charlemagne

Einhard

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Javier Blas

Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience

Gitta Sereny

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Ronen Bergman