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THE PITY OF IT ALL: A PORTRAIT OF JEWS IN GERMANY 1743-1933

Amos Elon

Allen Lane, GBP 25.00

ON AN autumn day in 1743 a 14-year-old hunchbacked Jewish boy entered Berlin via the Rosenthaler Tor, the only gate through which Jews were allowed to pass. The gatekeeper's log records: "Today there passed six oxen, seven swine, and a Jew." The Jew was Moses Mendelssohn, who 20 years later was a European celebrity, widely known as the 'German Socrates'.

For Amos Elon, Mendelssohn's entry into Berlin marked the symbolic beginning of a golden age. Despite enormous obstacles, Jewish cattle drivers, ...

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