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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Schama, Simon.     Subjects     Jews -- History.     Jewish diaspora.     Jews -- Civilization.     Jews -- Civilization -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Schama, Simon.       by title:      Belonging : the stor...       by call number:      909.04924 S299b     Search the Web     Schama, Simon.     Jews -- History.     Jewish diaspora.     Jews -- Civilization.     Jews -- Civilization -- History.       MARC Display

Belonging : the story of the Jews, 1492-1900 / Simon Schama. by Schama, Simon. Allen Lane, 2017. Call #: 909.04924 S299b Subjects Jews -- History.   Jewish diaspora.   Jews -- Civilization.   Jews -- Civilization -- History. ISBN:  9780670068289 (hc.) Alternate title:  Story of the Jews. [Part 2], Belonging, 1492-1900 Description:  790 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm Notes:  "First published in Great Britain in 2017 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage."--Title page verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Summary:  "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 general in Ming China; 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, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army. Through Simon Schama's passionate telling of this second chronicle in an epic tale, a history emerges of the Jewish people that feels like it is the story of everyone, of humanity. Simon Schama is a University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His books include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 909.04924 S299b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 909.04924 S299b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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