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Remembering Amos ElonThe historian who explained Israel to itself.

By Christopher HitchensUpdated Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 3:33 PM ET

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Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the Roger S. Mertz media fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Photograph of Amos Elon by Caroline Forbes from The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933.
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