Amos Elon

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Amos Elon ( Hebrew עמוס אילון; * July 4, 1926 in Vienna ; † May 25, 2009 in Buggiano , Tuscany , Italy ; born as Amos Sternbach ) was an Israeli journalist and writer.

Life

Amos Elon emigrated to Jerusalem with his parents in 1933 , he studied history and law at the universities in Tel Aviv , Jerusalem and Cambridge . From 1948 to 1950 he did his military service, from 1954 to 1956 he was a columnist for the daily newspaper Haaretz , then until 1965 foreign correspondent in Hungary , the Czechoslovak Republic , Poland , the USA, France and the FRG. From 1966 (with interruption) to 2001 he was editor and columnist of Haaretz, in 1967 he was a war correspondent in the Six Day War. In the mid-1960s, Elon was the first Israeli correspondent in what was then the federal capital of Bonn . From 1965 he also worked for The New Yorker magazine and the New York Review of Books . He worked with Shalom Achshaw . Since 1985 he has lived as a freelance writer. From 1991 to 1992 he worked at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , in 2002 he was a fellow at the Remarque Institute in New York.

Elon was one of the early advocates of a Palestinian state and Israel's withdrawal from the territories it has occupied since 1967. Disappointed with the political developments in Israel, Elon moved to Tuscany in 2004. Elon has written several books, some of which have been translated into German: about traumatized Germany, about the situation of Israel, its people, about the emergence of Zionism and about German-Jewish relations. He has received several literary awards, including the 2004 Wingate Literary Prize .

Works (German, selection)

  • In a haunted country, 1966
    • Excerpt , Spiegel No. 40, September 26, 1966
  • The Israelis, Founders and Sons 1976
  • Dialogue of the Enemies, a debate about the future of the Arabs and Israelis (1974) 1974
  • Theodor Herzl . A biography
  • Jerusalem, interior views of a mirror city 1990 and so on.
  • News from Jerusalem 1968 to 1994 (collection of articles), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn 1995, ISBN 978-3-8218-4132-8 , series Die Other Bibliothek, further expanded edition: News from Jerusalem: Reports from four decades , Fischer-Taschenbuch- Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-596-13868-5
  • The first Rothschild. Portrait of a Frankfurt Jew (engl. 1998 udT Founder ) TB: 1999
  • At a different time. Portrait of the German-Jewish epoch (English 2002 under the title The pity of it all ), German 2003 (Hanser-Verlag, ISBN 3-446-20283-8 ), TB (German, ISBN 3-423-34228-5 ) 2005
  • Building Europe, shaping change. The role of the Jews in the new Europe. Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-922934-75-7 (see also web links)

literature

Web links

English

notes

  1. ↑ Short text. The link given here to the full text of Elons is permanently defective, it refers to the online Zs. JSTOR , only the first page is displayed, for more you must have access to one of the named libraries; this text is largely identical ("adapted") with its long foreword to the Penguin Books edition of the Eichmann book from 2011, ISBN 9780143039884 pp. VII - XXIII. The JSTOR version comes from "World Policy Journal" Vol. 23, No. 4, winter 2006/2007, pp. 93-102. Publisher: Sage Publ., Inc.
personal data
SURNAME Elon, Amos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2009
Place of death Tuscany