Amos Elon
Amos Elon's most recent book is The Pity of It All: German Jews Before Hitler. He is a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU. (February 2008)
From the Review
February 14, 2008: Olmert & Israel: The Change
Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007 by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, translated from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden
Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel
Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life by Meron Benvenisti, translated from the Hebrew by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, in consultation with Michael Kaufman-Lacusta
April 26, 2007: Hard Truth About Palestine
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh, with Anthony David
March 15, 2007: Thanks for the Memory
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
October 19, 2006: The Triumph of a Double Life
Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern
October 5, 2006: Avigdor and Victor (letter)
June 22, 2006: What Does Olmert Want?
The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 by Gershom Gorenberg
February 23, 2006: A Shrine to Mussolini
The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy by Sergio Luzzatto, translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall
May 26, 2005: The Ghost City
Alexandria: City of Memory by Michael Haag
May 26, 2005: Amos Oz and the Darkness of Europe (letter)
December 16, 2004: In Abraham's Vineyard
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
July 15, 2004: War Without End
How Israel Lost: The Four Questions by Richard Ben Cramer
Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003 by Itamar Rabinovich
April 8, 2004: The 'Jewish Bismarck'
The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken, 1877–1959 by Anthony David
February 26, 2004: A Likud 'Liberal'? (letter)
January 15, 2004: A Very Special Relationship
Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US–Israel Alliance by Warren Bass
Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen
December 4, 2003: An Alternative Future: An Exchange
October 23, 2003: Could He Have Stopped Hitler?
Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman by Jonathan Wright
May 29, 2003: An Unsentimental Education
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
May 29, 2003: Money for Israel (letter)
April 10, 2003: Wise Survivors
Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times by Steven E. Aschheim
Gershom Scholem: A Life in Letters, 1914–1982 edited and translated from the German by Anthony David Skinner
December 19, 2002: Israelis & Palestinians: What Went Wrong?
October 24, 2002: The Wanderer
The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler by Laird M. Easton
May 23, 2002: No Exit
February 14, 2002: 'The Deadlocked City': An Exchange
November 15, 2001: A German Requiem
Two Millennia of German Jewish History Jewish Museum, Berlin
October 18, 2001: The Deadlocked City
Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City by Bernard Wasserstein
July 5, 2001: Scenes from a Marriage
Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936–1968 edited and with an introduction by Lotte Kohler, translated from the German by Peter Constantine
July 20, 2000: 'The View from Damascus' (letter)
February 24, 2000: 'Exile's Return' (letter)
November 18, 1999: Exile's Return
Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
June 10, 1999: Hannah Arendt's Integrity (letter)
February 18, 1999: 'A Fugitive from Egypt and Palestine'
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess by Hannah Arendt, First complete edition, edited by Liliane Weissberg, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
November 20, 1997: Death for Sale
Masks: An Attempt about Shoah an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Vienna, July 25-October 26, 1997
November 6, 1997: The Case of Hannah Arendt
June 26, 1997: At Pharaoh's Court
Egypt's Road to Jerusalem: A Diplomat's Story of the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
March 27, 1997: Jerusalem Blues
City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem by Meron Benvenisti
December 19, 1996: Israel and the End of Zionism
January 11, 1996: 'Israel's Demons': An Exchange
December 21, 1995: Israel's Demons
April 6, 1995: One Foot on the Moon
September 22, 1994: Politics and Archaeology
April 21, 1994: Look Over Jordan
October 7, 1993: The Politics of Memory
August 12, 1993: A Visit with Arafat
June 10, 1993: The Jews' Jews
Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel by David Grossman, translated by Haim Watzman
May 13, 1993: The Nowhere City
May 14, 1992: East Germany: Crime and Punishment
April 23, 1992: In a Former Country
October 12, 1989: Jerusalem (letter)
August 17, 1989: Jerusalem: The Future of the Past
April 14, 1988: From the Uprising
August 1, 1968: The Israel-Arab Deadlock
Israel and World Politics by Theodore Draper
The Road to Jerusalem by Walter Laqueur
Books by Amos Elon
Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time (2003)
Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany 1743-1933 (2002)
A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East (1997)
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time (1996)
Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory (1995)
Jerusalem, City of Mirrors (1989)
The Holy Land from the Air (1987)
The Israelis: Photographs of a Day in May (1985)
The Israelis: Founders and Sons (1983)
Timetable (1980)
Flight Into Egypt (1980)
Understanding Israel: A Social Studies Approach (1976)
Herzl (1975)
Between Enemies; A Compassionate Dialogue Between an Israeli and an Arab (1974)
The Israelis: Founders and Sons (1971)