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adalat desi tashan To gauge the full extent of that tragedy, I can only recommend Amos Elon’s masterful book “The Pity of It All.” It begins with the impoverished Moses Mendelssohn entering Berlin in 1743 and ends with the obliteration of one of the most accomplished ethnic communities in all of Europe, but not before some Jews had fled, penniless and disoriented, to what is now Israel.