The pity of it all : a history of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 / Amos Elon.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Allen Lane, 2003Description: 446 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24cmISBN:- 0713993413 :
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942.876 KON Byker / | 942.9 WIL Who speaks for Wales? : nation, culture, identity / | 943.0009717 ELS Institutional design in post-communist societies : rebuilding the ship at sea / | 943.004924 ELO The pity of it all : a history of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 / | 943.085 DEM Democracy, dictatorship, destruction : documents of modern German history 1918-1945 / | 943.085 HIT Mein Kampf / | 943.088 POL The politics of the new Germany / |
1. Ancient Renown -- 2. The Age of Mendelssohn -- 3. Miniature Utopias -- 4. Heine and Borne -- 5. Spring of Nations -- 6. Hopes and Anxieties -- 7. Years of Progress -- 8. Assimilation and Its Discontents -- 9. War Fever -- 10. The End.
"The Pity of It All is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich." "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, the great lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; and Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin in 1933 signalled the end of the German-Jewish idyll. Elon traces how this minority - never more than one per cent of the population - came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity, and he movingly demonstrates how the devastating outcome of their fate was uncertain almost until the end."--BOOK JACKET.
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