Amos Elon (Heinrich Sternbach) was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1926.
He came with his family to Palestine in 1933, and in the 1940s he was among Tel Aviv’s leading young intellectuals.
He worked as a journalist for Haaretz newspaper, posted in Europe and the United States.
Elon also penned articles for newspapers in Germany and the United States and published numerous books.
Book jacket of A German Requiem, published in the United States in 2002 and in Israel in 2004 by Dvir, translated by Danny Auerbach.
He worked as a journalist for Haaretz newspaper, posted in Europe and the United States, and was considered a protégé of its publisher, Gershom Schocken (Zwickau, Germany, 1912 – Israel, 1990).
Elon also penned articles for newspapers in Germany and the United States and published numerous books, including on the topics of Herzl, the Rothschild family and German Jewry.
His book A German Requiem, published in 2002, which tells the story of Central European Jewry, achieved great success.
Milestones in the life of Amos Elon
Amos Elon (Heinrich Sternbach) was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1926 and came with his family to Palestine in 1933.
Amos Elon (Heinrich Sternbach) passed away in Tuscany, Italy.
