Volume 49, Number 19 · December 5, 2002
The Magic Circle
By Gordon A. Craig
The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933
by Amos Elon
Metropolitan, 446 pp., $30.00
In June 1849, in the last days of the revolutionary German National Assembly, the vice-president, Gabriel Riesser, one of its seven Jewish members, addressed the body during a debate on civil rights. Speaking of the inequality from which he and his fellows suffered, he brought thunderous applause from his audience when he cried:
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