The story of the Jews. Volume two, Belonging 1492-1900 / Simon Schama.
2017
DS118 .S31652 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The story of the Jews. Volume two, Belonging 1492-1900 / Simon Schama.
Author
Schama, Simon, author.
Uniform Title
Belonging
Story of the Jews (Television program)
Story of the Jews (Television program)
Edition
First US edition.
ISBN
9780062339577 (hardcover)
0062339575 (hardcover)
0062339575 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Language
English
Description
790 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Call Number
DS118 .S31652 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
909/.04924
Summary
The second of a three volume cultural history that details the journey of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of the nineteenth century, incorporating the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories. Through Schama's passionate and intelligent telling, a story emerges of the Jewish people that feels as if it is the story of everyone, of humanity packed with detail. -- Adapted from book jacket.
"Simon Schama's 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 Napoleon's ruined army. Through Schama's passionate and intelligent telling, a story emerges of the Jewish people that feels as if it is the story of everyone, of humanity packed with detail, this second chronicle in an epic tale will shed new light on a crucial period of history." -- Provided by publisher
"Simon Schama's 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 Napoleon's ruined army. Through Schama's passionate and intelligent telling, a story emerges of the Jewish people that feels as if it is the story of everyone, of humanity packed with detail, this second chronicle in an epic tale will shed new light on a crucial period of history." -- Provided by publisher
Note
"Originally published as 'Belonging : the story of the Jews, 1492-1900' in Great Britain in 2017 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 710-757) and index.
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Belonging
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Table of Contents
Could it be now?
In transit
The entertainer
The time of the nightingale
Music and mourning
Jews without pain?
Cohabitation
The crown
Meetings of minds
Jews without beards
Citizen-Jews
Poh-Lin
Americans
Modernity and its Tsuris
Turning point
Should it be now?
Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish terms.
In transit
The entertainer
The time of the nightingale
Music and mourning
Jews without pain?
Cohabitation
The crown
Meetings of minds
Jews without beards
Citizen-Jews
Poh-Lin
Americans
Modernity and its Tsuris
Turning point
Should it be now?
Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish terms.