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“amos elon”

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  • The Pity of It All

    A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

    by Amos Elon ...
    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award“Brilliant, far-reaching, passionate. . .sweeping and marvelously detailed. . .finely, intimately, movingly drawn. . . a book for the ages.”—The New York TimesIn this important work of historical restoration, respected journalist and historian Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time

    by Amos Elon ...
    Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon (52,000 words and 51 illustrations) In this short biography of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), historian and journalist Amos Elon describes how the founder of the Rothschild dynasty started out by dealing in rare coins and traveling across Germany while still confined, as a Frankfurt Jew, to its Judengasse. Assisted by his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Herzl

    by Amos Elon ...
    Born in Budapest to a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) and his family moved to Vienna when he was 18. He studied law before he began writing plays and pieces of journalism. Herzl became the Paris correspondent for Vienna’s leading newspaper, the Neue Freie Presse, and covered the Dreyfus affair, which shocked and galvanized him to write The Jewish State: An Attempt ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jerusalem: City of Mirrors

    by Amos Elon ...
    A contemplation of the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much a myth as a physical reality. Amos Elon’s elegant, dazzling biography of Jerusalem gives a profound insight into the kaleidoscopic culture of this magical city. Battle-scarred from four thousand years of violent conflict, the holy city is a sacred symbol of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, and its religious wars of today ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Israelis: Founders and Sons

    by Amos Elon ...
    “Superb… The first critical analysis of Israel written from within... It's a deliberate act of self-awareness, exploring how a people got where they are.” — Time“The most illuminating, even-handed, candid appraisal of the contemporary Jewish condition yet to appear” — Newsweek“[A] penetrating, profound, explosive essay-analysis of the Israelis and the Jews... Elon is that very rare writer of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    A Report on the Banality of Evil

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of TotalitarianismSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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