The Pity Of It All
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The Pity Of It All
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Author : Amos Elon
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2013-04-26
The Pity Of It All written by Amos Elon and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-26 with History categories.
From an acclaimed historian and social critic, a passionate and poignant history of German Jews from the mid-eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich 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.
The Pity Of War
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Author : Niall Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-08-05
The Pity Of War written by Niall Ferguson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-05 with History categories.
From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces. That the war was wicked, horrific, and inhuman is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. Indeed, more British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with little reluctance and with some enthusiasm. For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper or more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.
Dancing At The Pity Party
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Author : Tyler Feder
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Dancing At The Pity Party written by Tyler Feder and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
This acclaimed graphic memoir that Kirkus calls “cathartic and uplifting” is the tale of losing a parent and what it feels like to grieve and to move forward. “I can’t recommend this kind, funny, and poignant memoir enough. It’s an intimate, life-affirming story of resilience that feels like a good friend.” —Mari Andrew, author of Am I There Yet? Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her life—from her mom’s first oncology appointment to her funeral through the beginning of facing reality as a motherless daughter. She shares the sting of loss that never goes away, the uncomfortable post-death firsts, and the deep-down, hard-to-talk-about feelings of the grieving process. Dancing at the Pity Party is a frank and refreshingly funny look at what it’s like to grieve—for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it.
The Pity Of It All
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Author : Leo Kuper
language : en
Publisher: Duckworth Publishing
Release Date : 1977
The Pity Of It All written by Leo Kuper and has been published by Duckworth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Political Science categories.
The Pity Of It All
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Author : Amos Elon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-01-12
The Pity Of It All written by Amos Elon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-12 with History categories.
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 Hitler's Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, the acclaimed historian and social critic Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a 150-year period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance.
Genius Anxiety
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Author : Norman Lebrecht
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-12-03
Genius Anxiety written by Norman Lebrecht and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why? Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
The Pity
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Author : Steve Ely
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Pity written by Steve Ely and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with War poetry categories.
Pride Over Pity
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Author : Kailyn Lowry
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11
Pride Over Pity written by Kailyn Lowry and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Kailyn Lowry, the feisty, tattooed beauty whose determination to raise her son on her own terms has been documented on MTV's hit series Teen Mom 2, opens up in this raw memoir about her painful past and offers an inspiring account of a young girl's resolve to survive and succeed.
The Wonder Of All Things
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Author : Jason Mott
language : en
Publisher: MIRA
Release Date : 2014
The Wonder Of All Things written by Jason Mott and has been published by MIRA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
After her ability to heal physical ailments is revealed to the world, thirteen-year-old Ava has trouble dealing with all the people who come seeking a miracle, especially since, with each healing, she grows weaker.
Pity The Nation
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Author : Robert Fisk
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Release Date : 1990
Pity The Nation written by Robert Fisk and has been published by Atheneum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Rarely have the horror and tragedy of war been so graphically--and brilliantly--portrayed as in Robert Fisk's epic account of the Lebanon conflict. A Critical scrutiny of a terrible war that has yet to be resolved.