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    464 páginas
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  4. Fecha de publicación
    1 Diciembre 2003
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    5.55 x 0.85 x 8.25 pulgadas
  6. ISBN-10
    0312422814
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0312422813
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In this important work of historical restoration, Amos 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. In engaging, brilliantly etched portraits of Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and many others, Elon traces how a small minority came to be perceived as a deadly threat
to German national integrity.

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“Brilliant, far-reaching, passionate. . .sweeping and marvelously detailed. . .finely, intimately, movingly drawn. . . a book for the ages.” ―The New York Times

“[Elon] is a master of the telling anecdote. . ..One should be grateful for what Elon has done.” ―Los Angeles Times

“A work packed with beautifully sketched portraits, and constructed with a practiced eye for memorable, well-executed anecdotes.” ―The New York Times Book Review

“Impressive. . .Could hardly be improved upon.” ―The New York Review of Books

“If there is one book Americans should read this winter, it is Amos Elon's The Pity of It All--a meticulous and wrenching history of a people in a place at a moment in time that bears urgently upon our own.” ―Joan Didion, author of Political Fictions

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Amos Elon is the author of eight widely praised books including Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild, and the New York Times bestseller Israelis: Founders and Sons. He was a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. He passed away in 2009.

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The Pity of It All

A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933By Elon, Amos

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Barely twenty-four years old, Heinrich Heine arrived in Berlin in the summer of 1821 to study law at the university and attend Hegel's seminar on aesthetics. Slight, pale, with dreamy blue eyes and long, wavy blond hair, he was an enormously gifted writer, widely known for the lyricism of his poetry and the scathing wit of his prose. No other author has ever been so German and so Jewish or so ambivalent and ironic about being both; Heine would leave an indelible mark on German culture. During these university days, he wore velvet jackets, dandyish Byronic collars, and a fashionable wide-rimmed felt hat known as a Bolivar. Older by two or three years than most of his peers, he was allergic to the alcohol, nicotine, and "patriotic" politics they indulged in so boisterously. His distaste for alcohol persisted; he is said to have claimed that the Jewish contribution to the new German patriotism was "the small glass" of beer.


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  • skibum
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    most important book i've read in years.
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 15 de septiembre de 2018
    Broad-gauged, multi-faceted, nuanced, coolly analytical chronicle of liberalizing developments in German society, economy, education, culture, and politics, from mid-18th century to the early Weimar years, that, on a two-steps forward, one-step back basis,, afforded Jews... Ver más
    Broad-gauged, multi-faceted, nuanced, coolly analytical chronicle of liberalizing developments in German society, economy, education, culture, and politics, from mid-18th century to the early Weimar years, that, on a two-steps forward, one-step back basis,, afforded Jews greatly increased opportunities to participate, excel, and, to a remarkable extent, lead, in many aspects of German society -- while never eradicating deep strata of antisemitism linked to increasingly belligerent and militaristic German nationalism. Resonant for Jews in all Western societies, the book probes German Jews' shifting and conflicting strategies for coping with the persistent contradictions between doors open to achieve, assimilate, and contribute, on the one hand, and tenacious hostile tribal hostility, on the other. A graphic reminder to all supporters of post WW II Western liberal democratic regimes, how today's challenges recycle recurrent past struggles, with outcomes good and bad, but never permanent. Compelling portraits of extraordinary figures such as Moses Mendelsohn, Felix Mendelsohn, Heinrich Heine, Walther Rathenau, Chaim Weizmann, and others similarly interesting and influential though less well-known. Concise and well-written for its genre, reads like a novel, unputdownable for me.
    Broad-gauged, multi-faceted, nuanced, coolly analytical chronicle of liberalizing developments in German society, economy, education, culture, and politics, from mid-18th century to the early Weimar years, that, on a two-steps forward, one-step back basis,, afforded Jews greatly increased opportunities to participate, excel, and, to a remarkable extent, lead, in many aspects of German society -- while never eradicating deep strata of antisemitism linked to increasingly belligerent and militaristic German nationalism. Resonant for Jews in all Western societies, the book probes German Jews' shifting and conflicting strategies for coping with the persistent contradictions between doors open to achieve, assimilate, and contribute, on the one hand, and tenacious hostile tribal hostility, on the other. A graphic reminder to all supporters of post WW II Western liberal democratic regimes, how today's challenges recycle recurrent past struggles, with outcomes good and bad, but never permanent. Compelling portraits of extraordinary figures such as Moses Mendelsohn, Felix Mendelsohn, Heinrich Heine, Walther Rathenau, Chaim Weizmann, and others similarly interesting and influential though less well-known. Concise and well-written for its genre, reads like a novel, unputdownable for me.
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    A Superb History Book
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    For anyone with an interest in the Jewish community of Germany from the 18th century until the rise of Nazism in 1933, this is the book to read. Most history books have a tendency to be dry and pedantic but not Elon's. It captures this these time periods with a fluidity... Ver más
    For anyone with an interest in the Jewish community of Germany from the 18th century until the rise of Nazism in 1933, this is the book to read. Most history books have a tendency to be dry and pedantic but not Elon's. It captures this these time periods with a fluidity and poignancy that makes this book very hard to put down. I have never been a real History "scholar" per se, but this book held me captivated until the very last page. It taught me so much about the rise of the Enlightenment period ( the Haskalah) and Moses Mendelsohn and the great philosophers that came after him, the Salons of Berlin and the growth of the culture. It has taught me so much about the Jews' struggle for acceptance into society and when they gained it, they were still not truly accepted. Amos Elon has done outstanding research and has written a masterpiece of book, originally in Hebrew, and it has been faithfully and wonderfully translated, capturing all the nuances and the pathos, the power and struggles for survival of an amazing People, destined to be murdered in their millions in World War 2. This is an essential read, for anyone interested in this incredible era and in incredible people, who changed the face of Jewish Life and Education and Culture, forever.
    For anyone with an interest in the Jewish community of Germany from the 18th century until the rise of Nazism in 1933, this is the book to read. Most history books have a tendency to be dry and pedantic but not Elon's. It captures this these time periods with a fluidity and poignancy that makes this book very hard to put down. I have never been a real History "scholar" per se, but this book held me captivated until the very last page. It taught me so much about the rise of the Enlightenment period ( the Haskalah) and Moses Mendelsohn and the great philosophers that came after him, the Salons of Berlin and the growth of the culture. It has taught me so much about the Jews' struggle for acceptance into society and when they gained it, they were still not truly accepted. Amos Elon has done outstanding research and has written a masterpiece of book, originally in Hebrew, and it has been faithfully and wonderfully translated, capturing all the nuances and the pathos, the power and struggles for survival of an amazing People, destined to be murdered in their millions in World War 2. This is an essential read, for anyone interested in this incredible era and in incredible people, who changed the face of Jewish Life and Education and Culture, forever.
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  • R. M. Peterson
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    A splendid "portrait" but not really a history
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 13 de marzo de 2009
    THE PITY OF IT ALL is a valuable book, well worth reading (especially, I suspect, for non-Jews), but to me it is vaguely disappointing. I sense it could have been much more. The back cover contains blurbs to the effect that Amos Elon is "a master of the telling... Ver más
    THE PITY OF IT ALL is a valuable book, well worth reading (especially, I suspect, for non-Jews), but to me it is vaguely disappointing. I sense it could have been much more. The back cover contains blurbs to the effect that Amos Elon is "a master of the telling anecdote" and that the book is constructed with "memorable, well-executed anecdotes." Sure enough, there are plenty of memorable, well-executed, and telling anecdotes, but in a sense the book is more a farrago of anecdotes than it is a history of the German-Jewish epoch. To be sure, the book is sub-titled a "portrait" rather than a "history", so it can't be said that the book promises something it fails to deliver. I just wish there were more narrative continuity and more analysis and explanation -- in short, more history.

    The focus of THE PITY OF IT ALL is divided between (a) how Jews were mistreated over the two centuries covered by the book (ever-evolving manifestations of fundamentally the same anti-Semitism), and (b) portraits of leading Jewish figures in German culture or society. A principal point Elon makes is that for the German Jews, "[t]heir home * * * was not 'Germany' but German culture and language. Their true religion was the bourgeois, Goethean ideal of Bildung (high culture)." Though THE PITY OF IT ALL ends in 1933 with Hitler's assumption of power, throughout looms the horror of the Holocaust, for which everything in the book sets the stage. Elon's portrait shows the periodic waxing and waning of anti-Semitism over those two centuries, but Elon makes little effort to explain the causes of those developments, those ups and downs.

    For me, the last two chapters, covering 1914-1933, are the best. Probably this is because I already know much more about those years in German history so I don't need the historical framework or structure that by and large Elon does not provide and I can more readily integrate the anecdotal filler that is his strength. Still and all, I learned a lot, especially about notable Jewish figures -- such as Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Borne, Martin Buber, and Walter Rathenau -- about whom I previously knew embarrassingly little. The writing is accomplished, the narrative flow rarely bogs down, and the numerous illustrations are welcome.

    Perhaps I am asking too much from Elon and the book. Perhaps it is enough that I am glad I read THE PITY OF IT ALL, which certainly is the case.
    THE PITY OF IT ALL is a valuable book, well worth reading (especially, I suspect, for non-Jews), but to me it is vaguely disappointing. I sense it could have been much more. The back cover contains blurbs to the effect that Amos Elon is "a master of the telling anecdote" and that the book is constructed with "memorable, well-executed anecdotes." Sure enough, there are plenty of memorable, well-executed, and telling anecdotes, but in a sense the book is more a farrago of anecdotes than it is a history of the German-Jewish epoch. To be sure, the book is sub-titled a "portrait" rather than a "history", so it can't be said that the book promises something it fails to deliver. I just wish there were more narrative continuity and more analysis and explanation -- in short, more history.

    The focus of THE PITY OF IT ALL is divided between (a) how Jews were mistreated over the two centuries covered by the book (ever-evolving manifestations of fundamentally the same anti-Semitism), and (b) portraits of leading Jewish figures in German culture or society. A principal point Elon makes is that for the German Jews, "[t]heir home * * * was not 'Germany' but German culture and language. Their true religion was the bourgeois, Goethean ideal of Bildung (high culture)." Though THE PITY OF IT ALL ends in 1933 with Hitler's assumption of power, throughout looms the horror of the Holocaust, for which everything in the book sets the stage. Elon's portrait shows the periodic waxing and waning of anti-Semitism over those two centuries, but Elon makes little effort to explain the causes of those developments, those ups and downs.

    For me, the last two chapters, covering 1914-1933, are the best. Probably this is because I already know much more about those years in German history so I don't need the historical framework or structure that by and large Elon does not provide and I can more readily integrate the anecdotal filler that is his strength. Still and all, I learned a lot, especially about notable Jewish figures -- such as Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Borne, Martin Buber, and Walter Rathenau -- about whom I previously knew embarrassingly little. The writing is accomplished, the narrative flow rarely bogs down, and the numerous illustrations are welcome.

    Perhaps I am asking too much from Elon and the book. Perhaps it is enough that I am glad I read THE PITY OF IT ALL, which certainly is the case.
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  • Ceebee
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    Excellent read
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    This book covers a 200 year period in Germany during which the Jewish population sought to become fully accepted German citizens. The effort ebbs and flows, finally crashing down under Hitler. The book is very well written and an easy read. It is interesting and factual and... Ver más
    This book covers a 200 year period in Germany during which the Jewish population sought to become fully accepted German citizens. The effort ebbs and flows, finally crashing down under Hitler. The book is very well written and an easy read. It is interesting and factual and does not get bogged down in minutia. I highly recommend this book.
    This book covers a 200 year period in Germany during which the Jewish population sought to become fully accepted German citizens. The effort ebbs and flows, finally crashing down under Hitler. The book is very well written and an easy read. It is interesting and factual and does not get bogged down in minutia. I highly recommend this book.
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  • Edgar M. Moran, MD
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    A Lesson in Human History
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    Amos Elon's "A Pity of It All" is a fascinating and thorough review of the period 1743-1933 in the German states before their unifying as the Germany that we know. Superbly documented with a bibliography rarely seen before, the author reviews the life and... Ver más
    Amos Elon's "A Pity of It All" is a fascinating and thorough review of the period 1743-1933 in the German states before their unifying as the Germany that we know. Superbly documented with a bibliography rarely seen before, the author reviews the life and accomplishments of Jews in the German provinces and city-states of the period. There are great insights in what has created the prominence and the refinement of the German culture in Europe during the 18th and the early 20th century. Perhaps we should see this review of a segment of history not only through the perspective of the Jewish life but, at a more global level of the history of mankind, as what the intolerance that characterized the non-Jewish inhabitants caused to their own country and to the world. For this ended a life of culture and sophistiaction and made possible the immense destruction of the Nazi Germany from which we are not yet fully recovered.
    Amos Elon's "A Pity of It All" is a fascinating and thorough review of the period 1743-1933 in the German states before their unifying as the Germany that we know. Superbly documented with a bibliography rarely seen before, the author reviews the life and accomplishments of Jews in the German provinces and city-states of the period. There are great insights in what has created the prominence and the refinement of the German culture in Europe during the 18th and the early 20th century. Perhaps we should see this review of a segment of history not only through the perspective of the Jewish life but, at a more global level of the history of mankind, as what the intolerance that characterized the non-Jewish inhabitants caused to their own country and to the world. For this ended a life of culture and sophistiaction and made possible the immense destruction of the Nazi Germany from which we are not yet fully recovered.
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  • A Frenchy in NYC
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    A brilliant history of the tragic fate of Germany's Jews
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    Elon's book is truly fantastic. Entertaining, packed with information, anecdotes and written with a wonderful style, the book retraces the doomed history of the Jews from Germany from Mendelssohn to Hitler. Written through biographies of its most significant figures... Ver más
    Elon's book is truly fantastic. Entertaining, packed with information, anecdotes and written with a wonderful style, the book retraces the doomed history of the Jews from Germany from Mendelssohn to Hitler. Written through biographies of its most significant figures (Mendelssohn, Heine, Rathenau, Rahel Levin, Kraus, etc.), it is both illuminating and tragic and its title couldn't have better translated the feeling of waste and tragedy of what could have been.
    Elon's book is truly fantastic. Entertaining, packed with information, anecdotes and written with a wonderful style, the book retraces the doomed history of the Jews from Germany from Mendelssohn to Hitler. Written through biographies of its most significant figures (Mendelssohn, Heine, Rathenau, Rahel Levin, Kraus, etc.), it is both illuminating and tragic and its title couldn't have better translated the feeling of waste and tragedy of what could have been.
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    The Pity of It All
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 15 de marzo de 2014
    This is the best factual historical account of the fate of Jews in Germany that I have ever read. It covers the period from 1743 to 1933, that is, until the time that Hitler comes to power. It mentions most prominent Jews in public life, writers, artists, politicians,... Ver más
    This is the best factual historical account of the fate of Jews in Germany that I have ever read. It covers the period from 1743 to 1933, that is, until the time that Hitler comes to power.
    It mentions most prominent Jews in public life, writers, artists, politicians, journalists, their ideas, their opinions and the impact they had upon all aspects of life in Germany for the 2 centuries covered. World War I is described, its aftermath, the revolution, the resurgence of antisemitism etc. The work is perfectly researched, with appendices, quotations, sources and explanations. This was/is an incredible experience.
    This is the best factual historical account of the fate of Jews in Germany that I have ever read. It covers the period from 1743 to 1933, that is, until the time that Hitler comes to power.
    It mentions most prominent Jews in public life, writers, artists, politicians, journalists, their ideas, their opinions and the impact they had upon all aspects of life in Germany for the 2 centuries covered. World War I is described, its aftermath, the revolution, the resurgence of antisemitism etc. The work is perfectly researched, with appendices, quotations, sources and explanations. This was/is an incredible experience.
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    Fascinating in places
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    This book is certainly full of fascinating tidbits, glimpses into a world that doesn't exist and whose existence somewhat unknown or overshadowed by later events. However, some chapters were a bit boring and the endless cascade of names became tedious. Some of the... Ver más
    This book is certainly full of fascinating tidbits, glimpses into a world that doesn't exist and whose existence somewhat unknown or overshadowed by later events. However, some chapters were a bit boring and the endless cascade of names became tedious. Some of the background context was skipped over mentioned in the briefest of ways, or painted with a single brushstroke which was somewhat misleading once you looked up a bit more context. I still generally enjoyed it but was a bit disappointed.
    This book is certainly full of fascinating tidbits, glimpses into a world that doesn't exist and whose existence somewhat unknown or overshadowed by later events. However, some chapters were a bit boring and the endless cascade of names became tedious. Some of the background context was skipped over mentioned in the briefest of ways, or painted with a single brushstroke which was somewhat misleading once you looked up a bit more context. I still generally enjoyed it but was a bit disappointed.
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