Amos Elon

Amos Elon (Hebrew עמוס אילון; born July 4, 1926 in Vienna, † 25 May 2009 in Tuscany, Italy; actually Amos Sternbach ) was a journalist and writer from Israel.

Life

Amos Elon emigrated with his parents to Jerusalem in 1933, he studied at the universities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Cambridge history and law. From 1948 to 1950 he did his military service from 1954 to 1956 he was a columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, then to 1965 foreign correspondent in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the USA, France and the FRG. Since 1966 ( with interruptions ) until 2001 he was editor and columnist of Haaretz, 1967, he was the Six Day War a war correspondent. Mid-1960s was Elon the first Israeli correspondent in the former German capital Bonn. AB 1965, he also worked for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He looked at Shalom Achschaw with. Since 1985 he has worked as a freelance writer. From 1991 to 1992 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, 2002, he was a Fellow at the Remarque Institute, New York.

Elon was one of the early proponents of a Palestinian state and an Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied in 1967. Disgusted with the political developments in Israel withdrew in 2004 Elon therefore in Tuscany. Elon has written several books, some of which were translated into German: on the traumatized Germany, about the situation of Israel, its people, about the origins of Zionism and the German -Jewish relations. He received several literary awards, including the 2004 Wingate Literary Prize.

Works ( German, selection)

• In a haunted country in 1966 Extract, Spiegel No. 40, September 26, 1966