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Book 2004

The Pity of It All

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
2004
  • Jewish influences
  • Jews
  • Intellectual life
  • Cultural assimilation
  • Ethnic relations
  • Civilization
  • History
  • Jews, germany

BERLIN, as the young Mendelssohn first saw it in 1743, was little more than a garrison town.