Belonging
The Story of the Jews 1492-1900
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jews' search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever.
Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. It spans centuries and even continents: from the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it navigates miracles and massacres, wandering, discrimination, harmony and tolerance; to the brink of the twentieth century and, it seems, a point of profound hope.
It tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a…
$49.95
October 17, 2017
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His publications include Patriots and Liberators, The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Dead Certainties, Landscape and Memory, and Rembrandt's Eyes.
Belonging
Simon Schama
The Face of Britain
Simon Schama
Rembrandt's Eyes
Simon Schama
The Story of the Jews
Simon Schama
Landscape and Memory
Simon Schama
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Charles Dickens; Introduction by Simon Schama
Dead Certainties
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens Introduction by Simon Schama