TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elon,Amos
TI  - The pity of it all: a history of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 
SN  - 0713993413 :
U1  - 943.004924 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Jews
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 1789-1945
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 1800-1933
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Jewish influences
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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