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"As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a 150-year period of achievement and integration that at its peak helped produce a golden age, second only to the Renaissance.".
"Writing with a novelist's eye and a historian's judgment, Elon shows how a persecuted clan of shopkeepers, cattle dealers, and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, entrepreneurs, poets, musicians, philosophers, scientists, publishers, and political activists - in many ways the flower of secular Europe.
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, Germany's beloved lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin after an encounter with the Gestapo signaled the end of the so-called German-Jewish symbiosis. Elon traces how this minority - never more than 1 percent of the population - ultimately came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity and culture.
But, as he movingly demonstrates, this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
December 1, 2003, Picador
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The pity of it all: a portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933
2003, Allen Lane
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The pity of it all: a history of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933
2002, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
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The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933
November 1, 2002, Metropolitan Books
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"BERLIN, as the young Mendelssohn first saw it in 1743, was little more than a garrison town."
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