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Article: Elon, Amos. The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
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- March 22, 2005
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Elon, Amos. The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933. New York: Picador, 2002. 446 pp. Paper, $15.00.
Amos Elon's The Pity of It All is a splendid book. Elon's historical research and sensibilities are perhaps only surpassed by his ability to write a book both packed with data and eminently readable. This reviewer learned a great deal from this book about topics of which I already had general knowledge and also--if one can enjoy the sadness of what the author narrates--enjoyed reading the book.
Elon's work tells the compelling and sad story of the two centuries of the rise, flowering, and demise of German Judaism in ten ...