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23 ratings, 4.17 average rating, 5 reviews
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published
December 1st 2003
by Picador
binding
Paperback, 464 pages
isbn
0312422814
(isbn13: 9780312422813)
description
In this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into ...more
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Read in August, 2008
"The Pity of It All" is a masterful accomplishment of scholarship, insight and tone. It describes the world and history of German Jews before the Holocaust in ways that illuminate the catastrophe that follwed, but with a wise restraint that holds back from glib or pat theories. For instance, Elon is careful to insist that the outcome for Germany's Jews was not inevitable, and that although virulent, persistent anti-semitism was widespread in German culture, Hitler's and Nazism's rise a...more
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Read in April, 2008
Well written. I cried during certain passages of the book, but after reading it, I have a greater appreciation for the European Jews.
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A fascinating history. The last chapter on the early days of WWI are staggering.
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Read in July, 2007
This is an interesting book... I'm still reading it.
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Read in February, 2008
It's a sad story.
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