"The Pity of It All" is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich. As it is usually told, the story of the Jews in Germany starts at the end, overshadowed by their tragic demise in[...]

Theodor Herzl was the founder of modern Zionism. His early life, however, gave little inkling of this. Until 1895 he was no more than a 'boulevardier', a moderately successful playwright, and the Paris correspondent for Vienna's leading newspaper, "Die Neue Freie Presse". This biography presents his[...]

Nu foreligger Amos Elons velskrevne og betydningsfulde historiske værk The Pity of It All: A History of Jews In Germany, 1743-1933 i en lydefri dansk oversættelse. Den danske version bærer titlen Et tysk rekviem. Portræt af den tysk-jødiske epoke, 1743-1933.

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