#Amos Elon

[sherbertilluminated]

The Pity of it All Review

Today I finished The Pity of it All: a History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 by Amos Elon. I picked it up because I'm a USAmerican who's probably specializing in German-Jewish studies and I'd heard of it as one of the most famous texts in the field. For the sake of record-keeping, I've got a non-comprehensive pros and cons list for the book.

Pros:

Because it's written for a wider readership than academic histories, Elon's writing is really compelling. I kept surprising myself with how excited I was to read the next chapter, even for a narrative with which I am familiar.

My feelings about Heinrich Heine were never simple but boy did they get more complex!

A lot of the problems I have with the book come from its fame. It's easier to see what it ignores or could have been because I'm familiar with other corners of the field, and when it came out, it was probably reacting to scholarship of which I am not yet aware and which presented a similarly-limited portrait.

There are translations of poems which I did not know existed in translation!

Cons:

Well, it's limited. Because it's interested in German Jews' contributions to German cultural life, it mostly retells the lives of prominent artists and writers. Because it is a narrative of assimilation, it mostly depicts the assimilated middle and upper classes, even during periods where immigration was higher. And because it starts in 1743, before the first waves of unificatory nationalism, it doesn't commit to a geographic scope. Its interest in Austria-Hungary extends to Kafka and Zweig but not to social conditions in Vienna or Prague. And while I, a Herr Moses in Berlin enjoyer, appreciated the focus on that city, Elon admits that it was never where most ordinary German-Jewish people lived. A greater focus on social history might have made for a more comprehensive portrait.

When offered the choice between narrative or explanation, it tends to choose the former. The snippet of Chamisso's "Abba Glusk Leczeka" which Elon quotes is not, as he frames it, the voice of the poet, but that of the main character, an 18th-century figure speaking to Moses Mendelssohn, not his son Abraham. Likewise, because the book begins with Mendelssohn's entry to Berlin, it has to end with an exit.

The translations of the poems were not usually very good. I think I could make better ones if I had the time, and for some (eg "Abba Glusk Leczeka") I might need to.

Next it's back to academic articles with Berlin's Forgotten Future!

[whitesalmanrushdie]

Amos Elon - The Pity of it All

Two things interesting here i thought -

1) Germany wasn't uniquely antisemitic leading into the 20th century - it may have even been uniquely multicultural in some senses! Useful for understanding the root causes of antisemitism and the Holocaust.

2) 19th century eugenicist ideology/race science was present also among Jewish european intellectual cohorts. Important for giving context to the racialized thinking of early zionist settlers.

[k4rwl]

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[amopalhassos]

vsf faculdade

eu sou bolsista num projeto de extensão e eu amo muito fazer o que eu faço mas pqp tem hora que a incompetencia da galera em só FAZER O PROPRIO TRABALHO me da vontade de me jogar da janela q inferno vius

[user25122005]

tenho prova amanhã e eu não sei nada nada nadica de nada e não deu tempo de estudar direito pq o corno avisou terça feira que raiva

[jojoprints]

Man, twitter/X blow up in Brazil and I'm here again

Fuck you Elon Musk dick head motherfucker shit cry baby bobobo

I hate this man

[heatherchasesyou]

ufa, ainda bem que você tem tumblr!! eu amo suas artes e ia sentir falta sem o twitter T_T

MAS É CLARO 💞💞 sempre a disposição dos meus brasileirinhos 🙏 Fico feliz que goste das minhas artes ajdjajjdjd 🥺👉👈♥️

RESPECT BRAZILIAN NATION, AND FUCK ELON MUSK 🇧🇷🖕💥💥💥

[anonymous-dentist]

Listinha de coisas que eu adoraria ver mais na au super heróis:

Como o Cellbit conheceu o Richas e decidiu cuidar dele junto aos outros

Mais informações sobre os FAVELAS, como se conhecerm/juntaram, como funciona o relacionamento entre eles e o Cellbit, como eles veem a realidade em que vivem etc (Bagi minha fav já, amei como vc faz a vibe de cansada com tudo dela)

Roier/Hombre misterioso/Melissa sendo biluteteia das ideia (<- expressão popular para doido, louco etc), os flert torto dele (<- amo), objetivo, como (e quando) ele virou fanboy do enigma, motivo e etc

LIGA DOS VILÕES: mais informações sobre os personagens participantes, tipo como estão lidando com a fed depois do Cell ter picado a mula (<- expressão popular para saido/fugido) e talvez mais? Pfv brinque com eles

FEDERAÇÃO: principios, objetivo, como as pessoas dessa cidade se sentem sobre ela (com a existência de herois e o medo constante dos vilões e etc), personagens -principalmente os herois- (Foolish meu beloved), passado com o Cell (com o outros personagens tbm)

Acho que num geral é isso? Eu pessoalmente gosto mais de historias de super heroi que focam mais no mistério e em mostrar como aquela realidade funciona, os problemas que vem com a existência de poderes, questões sociais como preconceitos e fazer perguntas tal qual:

que tipo de pessoas são as reclusas nesta realidade? (Vc pode usar o lugar aonde o Cell mora para mostrar um pouco disso, como o caso da falta de cameras/vigilância, é por causa das chances de roubo ou ela só n liga mesmo?)

Ou questões politicas se perguntando:

Até aonde chega o poderil da Fed? o governo ganha algo com todo esse show de vilões e herois? Existe alguma classe de ricos que financiam ou lucram em cima disso de alguma forma? (Aqui da para usar a Bagi)

Ou no entretenimento:

Se nesta realidade poderes e herois são reais, oque é mostrado nos desenhos/series/quadrinhos num geral? Um mundo igual o nosso? Eles veriam isso como uma utopia sem problemas, ou como um mundo quebrado e sem sentido? precisam manter a imagem dos herois afinal (Richas é uma criança,esta conhecendo o mundo agora e consume muita coisa use isso ao seu favor!)

E é isso, espero ter ajudado pelo menos um pouco e desculpa o textão em português :p

So I finally have the time to translate this whole thing, and wow! This helps a lot with worldbuilding!

It's all Felps, baby! He found Richas and brought him home, and it all sort of spiraled from there.

You'll see what the Favela Five are like together in the fic itself. Cellbit should even have himself a sidekick or two in the next chapter, so that'll be fun!

Hombre Misterioso hates the Federation. Roier, meanwhile, works at a cafe with Tina right by the Federation's downtown building. He's Very Complex, and He's Very Sad. (We should be getting a Jaiden appearance sooner rather than later.)

I imagine the Federation of Heroes to a sort of commentary on for-profit charity, I guess? It's very corrupt, but it's ingrained in absolutely everything in the world. It has hands in the police, the fire department, the hospitals, the government, the schools. Imagine if Elon Musk ran a superhero agency, it's sort of like that. It has a lot in common with the OG Federation of Heroes from my original superhero au from last fall, so go and find that if you want more secret information.

My Hero Academia is still real. Take that as canon.

[darkmaga-returns]

The above video ⬆️ is an excellent share that shows the actual state agents confiscating Amos Miller’s food. The transcript is below 👇 .

You can see the depth and breadth of the scope of this lawsuit, which affects every Private Member Association (PMA) in the USA, including those that are formed by doctors who left the medical system and practice as tribal practitioners.

Click to Help AMOS MILLER with Legal Fees

Amos Miller, the Amish Farmer in Bird in Hand PA has been raided and is being sued by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture in 2024. In this video I am going to provide you with details surrounding the January 2024 raid of Millers Organic Farm by the State of Pennsylvania; a raid which comes just one year after the conclusion of the Federal Government’s lawsuit against Miller in the United States vs Miller Organic Farm case.

PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO: there has been very little media coverage of the most recent raid and the scope of this suit is too large to be glazed over.

I covered Miller’s Federal case which spanned from 2019-2023 in 2 videos, linked below.

As it stands in the USA today, every meat and dairy product that is sold at the retail level must be either directly inspected by a USDA or state agent, or (as in the case with dairy) must be processed by an establishment with license and/or permits from the state or federal government.

Private membership associations like Miller’s Organic Farm, as well as herdshares, etc. are final avenues through which small farmers can provide product direct to consumers without government mediation.

Even moreso, it is the final avenue through which YOU the consumer can opt-out of a dangerously centralized agricultural system, a system that is at present a threat to National security.

Henry Kissinger, National Security advisor under Nixon and Ford said this: “Control oil and you control nations, control food and you control people.”

If the state or federal government can de-legitimize or bankrupt Miller’s 4000+ member Private Membership Association, it could signal the beginning of the end for thousands of other small farmers across the USA who are operating under the same framework.

If you are local to Pennsylvania, or can at all make the trip I want to encourage you to be present at the Lancaster County Courthouse on February 29th at at 11:30 am for the COURT RALLY that will directly precede Amos’s Court Hearing at 1pm.

[liesmyth]

reading Eichmann in Jerusalem rn and the foreword in this edition by Amos Elon is really thoughtful. I was Not familiar with his writing... taking notes

[coldcrashpictures]

Ask a big fan of your YouTube channel I have a pretty good idea of the movies you like, but I'm curious what kind of music you're into, of you're a music kinda person?

I have no clue how to classify my own music tastes... but some of my favorite bands/musicians include Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, Rage Against the Machine, St Vincent, Stevie Wonder, T. Rex, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Garbage, Louis Armstrong, Weird Al, Rare Earth, Talking Heads, Agnes Obel, Loreena McKennitt, Lady Gaga... and some pre-Elon Grimes.

[whitesalmanrushdie]

The Pity of it All - Amos Elon

This was exactly the reason i wanted to read a book like this actually - to read about the conditions of the jewish minority in Europe, not from the perspective of christians looking in, nor the perspective of rich jews looking down, but from the masses of the community itself - the book rarely achieved this, but here's an example at least.

[k4rwl]

Quase fui atropelada hoje pqp q sinistro

[paper-gurl]

amo q eu posso ver coisinhas e marcar a sofi dnv que nem era no app do passarinho que odio elon musk

[somebody-in-this-world-who-lives]

Eu tô muito triste, não tô conseguindo fazer download dos meus dados do Twitter, eu uso aquilo como diário e bloco de notas desde os 12 anos e esqueci de fazer isso ontem

Não sei como vou fazer com isso agora, eu tinha 4 contas e seguia muita gente que eu não sei acher em outro lugar. Eu não acredito que aquele filho da puta do Elon Musk só consegue tirar isso da gente de um dia pro outro porque o bebê quer quer que o site seja o pior possível. Aff Eu não quero mover redes sociais socorro, isso da tanto trabalho. (amo aqui mas não são ambientes parecidos então um noa cobre o outro)

[vadergf]

Twitter users paying for twitter blue only to spread that adin ross clip

But like... literally everything elon musk does with much more money and influence than adin ross or twitch being owned by jess Bezos but sapnaps a bad guy

Anyway, all them claiming to boycott kick but happily spreading kick clips of amo. The hypocrisy never ends

Omg how can sapnap be on a platform with bigots and give them money and an audience says the Twitter blue user