Creator Bio
Amos Elon
1926–2009
Israeli historian and journalist Amos Elon was born in Vienna and arrived in Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history at the Hebrew University and at Cambridge University. In the 1950s, Elon served as a correspondent for Haaretz on European and American affairs. He is best known for his work titled The Israelis: Founders and Builders. Disillusioned with the political situation in Israel, Elon moved to Italy in 2004.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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An Open Wound
Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…