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050 00 $aDS135.G33$bE57 2002
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100 1 $aElon, Amos.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012195
245 14 $aThe pity of it all :$ba history of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 /$cAmos Elon.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt,$c2002.
300 $a446 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 405-429) and index.
520 1 $a"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.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aHe 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.
520 8 $aBut, as he movingly demonstrates, this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1800-1933.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070465
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122320
651 0 $aGermany$xCivilization$xJewish influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054487
650 0 $aJews$xCultural assimilation$zGermany.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122345
651 0 $aGermany$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105263
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852 00 $bbar$hDS135.G33$iE57 2002