| Description: |
790 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Summary: |
"In the second of three volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth century. Simon Schamas great project continues and the Jewish story is woven into the fabric of humanity. Their search for a home where a distinctive religion and culture could be nourished without being marginalized suddenly takes on startling resonance in our own epoch of homelessness, wanderings, persecutions, and anxious arrivals. Volume 2 of The Story of the Jews epic tells the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories: not just the rabbis and the philosophers but a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a general in Ming China; a boxer in Georgian England, a Bible showman in Amsterdam; a teacher of the deaf in eighteenth-century France, an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany. The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stagecoaches and the railways, trudges the dawn streets of London with a pack load of old clothes, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleons ruined army."--Jacket flap. |
| Bibliog.: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject: |
Jews -- History.
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Jews -- Civilization.
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Jews -- Social conditions.
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| Alt. Title: |
Belonging : 1492-1900 |
| Uniform Title: |
Story of the Jews (Television program)
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| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780062339577 (hardcover) |
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0062339575 (hardcover) |
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