The Excommunication of Hannah Arendt

Amos Elon is a Vienna-born Israeli and a frequent essayist whose most recent book is The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743–1933, which concludes with Hannah Arendt's departure from Nazi Germany. His other books include The Israelis: Founders and Sons, Flight Into Egypt, Between Enemies, and Herzl, a biography of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. He was for many years a correspondent and columnist for the Israeli daily Ha'aretz.