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100 1 _aElon, Amos
_9290325
245 1 4 _aThe pity of it all :
_ba history of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 /
_cAmos Elon.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bAllen Lane,
_c2003.
300 _a446 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c24cm.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tAncient Renown --
_g2.
_tThe Age of Mendelssohn --
_g3.
_tMiniature Utopias --
_g4.
_tHeine and Borne --
_g5.
_tSpring of Nations --
_g6.
_tHopes and Anxieties --
_g7.
_tYears of Progress --
_g8.
_tAssimilation and Its Discontents --
_g9.
_tWar Fever --
_g10.
_tThe End.
520 1 _a"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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650 0 _aJews
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651 0 _aGermany
_xEthnic relations
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651 0 _aGermany
_xCivilization
_xJewish influences
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_b03-10-17
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