The story of the Jews : finding the words : 1000 BC-1492 AD / Simon Schama.

Complemented by (work): Story of the Jews (Television program)

First U.S. edition.

9780060539184 hardcover
0060539186 hardcover

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013]

©2013

English

496 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

DS118 .S3165 2013b

909/.04924

Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. A tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews. It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents, from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain. And a great story unfolds. Not, as often imagined, of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Which makes the story of the Jews everyone's story, too. -- From publisher's description.

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK"--Title page verso.
"Tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews"--Jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-465) and index.

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