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The implicit purpose of the book is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn in the 1780s and ending with Hannah Arendt, it traces the history of assimilation and the Jewish contribution to German public and cultural life. It will be an enormously engaging, readable and important book.

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"Amos Elon has not only written a great history, but an elegy for a lost civilisation." -- Telegraph, March 15, 2003 (by Daniel Johnson)

"This book is beautifully written, even-handed and enormously enlightening..." -- Good Book Guide, April 1, 2003

"This is a meticulously researched, richly detailed account of the profound connections between two (in Kafka’s word) 'pariah' nations." -- Independent Magazine, April 12, 2003 (by Michael Arditti)

"...Elon’s book is an elegantly written, continually absorbing, ultimately tragic commentary on ‘the pathos of the German Jewish condition." -- Times, March 9, 2003 (by Theo Richmond)

"...it is a terrific read, and describes the elusive German-Jewish symbiosis most memorably." -- Jewish Chronicle, March 21, 2003 (by Julia Neuberger)
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The purpose of this text is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn in the 1780s and ending with Hannah Arendt, it traces the history of assimilation and the Jewish contribution to German public and cultural life.

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  • PublisherAllen Lane
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 0713993413
  • ISBN 13 9780713993417
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages464
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