Amos Elon

As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Third Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance.Writing with a novelist's eye, 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. 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, beloved lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin signaled the end of the German-Jewish idyll. Elon traces how this minority-never more than one percent of the population-came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity, and he movingly demonstrates that this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end.A collective biography, full of depth and compassion, The Pity of It All summons up a splendid world and a dream of integration and tolerance that, despite all, remains the essential ennobling project of modernity.(less)

Meyer Amschel Rothschild was born in the Frankfurt ghetto in the mid-eighteenth century, in a city more restrictive in its treatment of Jews than any in Europe. Elon brilliantly depicts Meyer Amschel Rothschild's position there, and life on the almost unimaginably cramped Judengasse (the single street of the ghetto), where he lived his whole life - even after becoming one of the richest men in Germany. We read how he established his small trading and banking business, and forged an uneasy relationship (though one mutually profitable in different ways) with the financially obsessed Crown Prince Wilhelm of Kassel; how he pushed at and eventually broke through the restrictions that bound him and his family to the ghetto until he found himself essentially paying for the English war effort in the Peninsula in 1810. On a richly delineated canvas the emergence and secularization of a family and Western European Jewry is depicted.Founder is more than a short biography of an obviously extraordinary man. It is a portrait of Meyer Amschel Rothschild's times, of the condition of the Jews, of the state of Germany until it was overrun by the troops of Napoleonic France, which led to the collapse of the old order. It is about the threshold of modern times, when a world of aristocrats and gentlemen was permanently changed by a shrewd, dedicated, and loyal financier and his family. We still cannot know him as well as we do his children; but at last, in this book, Meyer Amschel Rothschild himself emerges from the shadows of the Judengasse.

Israel was built on dreams and strivings, on humanistic principles and hard labour. What was conceived as a country of peace and dignity, however, has emerged as a society of contradictions, ethnic tensions, clashes between the religious and the secular - a society buffeted by extreme changes in both national and international politics. The ideals of the founders have floundered in the reality of wars and violence. In this dramatic, fair-minded portrait of Israel, first published in 1971, Amos Elon places the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East in brilliant historic perspective. In illuminating the political and philosophical background of the State of Israel, he offers rare insight into the rise to power of Menachem Begin and the complications of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and he shows how Zionism, ironically, led to the development of its bitterest enemy, the Palestinian nationalist movement.

A portrait of Jerusalem which gives an insight into the kaleidoscopic culture of this magical city. Battle-scarred from 4000 years of violent conflict, the holy city is a sacred symbol of Judaism, Islam and Christianity and its religious wars of today reflect those of the past.

A careful study of the nineteenth-century Austrian Jewish playright, journalist, and founder of modern Zionism, who spent his last nine years planning the creation of an independent, sovereign Jewish nation

A powerful and evocative collection of essays, A Blood Dimmed Tide gathers nearly thirty years of Amos Elon's work on the Middle East. Skillfully moving from the Intifada to the Gulf War and its aftermath to the Peace Now! movement, these essays provide a nuanced account of relations between Jews and Arabs and among the Israelis themselves. Elon has also written a timely introduction that provides an overview of his work and brings it up to the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister of Israel.This internationally-known journalist presents sharply observed portraits of the region's key Shimon Peres, Yitzak Rabin, and King Hussein; he interviews Yasir Arafat; and he considers Moshe Dayan's life and legacy. Elon also ranges far to sketch the political climate of the region and its players, from Israeli settlers in Hebron and their uneasy coexistence with Arab neighbors to the foreign policy of Egypt.Sensitive and powerful, A Blood-Dimmed Tide provides a timely analysis of the conflicts between Jews and Arabs. From the Palestinians' refusal to accept Israel's 1978 offer of "full autonomy" to the Israeli government's insistence that settling the occupied territories would bring security, Elon traces what he considers to be the deadly miscalculations of both groups. As he examines the events and misunderstandings that have made it so difficult for Palestinians and Israelis to establish peace, Elon concludes taht what will finally bring the two sides together will not be moral imperative or personal courage but exhaustion. A Blood-Dimmed Tide is a significant contribution to our understanding of this troubled land.

ב-1743 נכנס משה מנדלסון לברלין בשער שנועד ליהודים ולבהמות. כך החלה פריחה תרבותית מדהימה של מאה וחמישים שמות הישגים מדעיים ואמנותיים, אשר נגדעה רק עם עלייתו של היטלר.בעין של סופר ובשיפוט של היסטוריון מסביר עמוס אילון כיצד הפך שבט נרדף של חנוונים, סוחרי בקר ורוכלים נודדים לקהילה משגשגת של סופרים, יזמים, משוררים, מוזיקאים, פילוסופים, מדענים, מו"לים ופעילים פוליטיים – ביניהם היינריך היינה, זיגמונד פרויד, חנה ארנדט, אלברט איינשטיין – ומבחינות רבות, מוביליה של אירופה המודרנית."רקוויאם גרמני", ביוגרפיה קולקטיבית חדורת עומק וחמלה, מסכמת עולם מופלא וחלום של השתלבות ושל סובלנות, שחרף סופו הטראגי, נשאר במהותו המפעל הנאצל ביותר של העידן המודרני. "מבריק, מרחיק לכת.. מלא גדוש דיוקנאות נהדרים.. ספר שיאריך שנים רבות" ניו יורק טיימס"עמוס אילון מספר סיפור טרגי מרתק, אך נזהר מלהסיק מסקנותדטרמיניסטיות : האם היה סוף זה הכרחי? ההיתה אפשרית דרך אחרת? הקורא ישפוט בעצמו : הסיפור חזק דיו לעורר טלטלה בלב כל אחד. ספר זה יעשיר כל קורא – וקוראים ישראלים במיוחד – בתובנה עמוקה ומכאיבה, יהודית ואוניברסלית גם יחד" פרופ' שלמה אבינרי, "הארץ""אין סקירה חכמה או צודקת יותר של מערכת יחסים סבוכה (בין יהודים לגרמנים) של בוז ושנאה אך גם של אהבה ותבונה.. יש לכלול את ספרו של עמוס אילון ברשימת ספרי חובה לתלמידי בתי הספר בגרמניה." "מרקור", פרנקפורט

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With the aid of aerial photography, readers are taken on a journey through the legendary landscape of the Holy Land, steeped in cultural heritage and deep religious significance, and the stage for some of the most momentous events in human history. Included are the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the fortress of Masada, the Sea of Galilee, the Qumran caves, and views of cities and towns, both ancient and modern.

In 1944, Joel Brand--a courier for the Jewish Rescue Committee--carries to Jewish leaders in Palestine an offer from Adolf one hundred Jews will be traded for each truck delivered to Germany

La question des kamikazes a pris une importance considérable en Israël : depuis septembre 2000, début de la deuxième intifada, la moitié des israéliens tués dans le conflit l’ont été au cours d’attentats suicides. Mais quels sont les motivations de leurs auteurs et quelles sont les conséquences politiques ? Margalit a repris toutes les déclarations qu’ils ont pu faire avant de mourir. Plus que l’idée de jihad (guerre sainte) c’est la notion de shahid (martyr) qui semble ici importante. Selon un verset du Coran, le shahid ne meurt pas car ses motifs sont purs. L’honneur retombera sur toute la famille. A l’origine de tels actes, il y aurait toujours une personne précise à venger. Il s’agit aussi de d’effrayer l’ennemi au plus profond de son cœur. Dans un second texte, Amos Elon examine les racines du conflit depuis l’origine du sionisme et les textes de Theodor Herzl. Il revient sur les raisons qui ont amené les extrémistes des deux bords à occuper le devant de la scène. Selon lui, « la plus grande tragédie d’Israël pourrait bien être la médiocrité de plus en plus alarmante de ses dirigeants. »

Hebrew

Beautiful color pictures of Israel's landscape and people.

Concentration camps

Rayon : Civilisation Editeur : Perrin Date de parution : 1991 Description : In-8, 334 pages, broché, occasion, très bon état. Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les commandes sont adressées sous enveloppes bulles. Photos supplémentaires de l'ouvrage sur simple demande. Réponses aux questions dans les 12h00. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. Merci. Référence catalogue X5390. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks

Hebrew, English (translation)

En quelques générations à peine, aux XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècles, l'une des communautés les plus marginalisées du monde germanique est devenue le fer de lance de la modernité. Colporteurs ou marchands de bétail, les Juifs allemands ont vu émerger parmi eux artistes, scientifiques, philosophes, journalistes et activistes talentueux. Dans ce livre magistral qui fait la part belle à l'aventure individuelle et au portrait, Amos Elon explore ce moment essentiel de l'histoire européenne. À travers les destins de Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Henriette Herz, Rahel Varnhagen, Arnold Schoenberg, Albert Einstein, Stefan Zweig, Hannah Arendt et bien d'autres, il évoque avec une érudition très vivante le mariage des identités et la perte des anciens repères religieux en prenant comme point de départ l'entrée en 1743 du jeune Moses Mendelssohn dans Berlin par une porte réservée aux Juifs et aux animaux. Vouloir être juif et allemand n'était pas incompatible. Beaucoup y parviendront en opérant une sorte de synthèse de ces deux patrimoines à tel point que la culture et la langue allemande ont pu passer pour la nouvelle patrie de ces apatrides héréditaires. Grâce à elles, une frange infime des Juifs allemands a forgé la plupart des notions clés du monde moderne : le communisme, la social-démocratie, le sionisme, les avant-gardes et la psychanalyse. Jusqu'à ce que les années 30, à l'issue de l'apogée qu'aura été la république de Weimar, donnent une couleur tragique à cette double identité. Réfutant l'idée fataliste que la Shoah était écrite d'avance, Amos Elon raconte brillamment la métamorphose d'une petite minorité qui, à l'issue d'une émancipation de deux siècles, a fini par être perçue comme une menace mortelle pour l'intégrité nationale allemande.