The Story of the Jews Volume Two
eBook - ePub

The Story of the Jews Volume Two

Belonging: 1492-1900

  1. 800 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Story of the Jews Volume Two

Belonging: 1492-1900

About this book

In the second volume 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.

Volume two of this epic incorporates 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 boxer in Georgian England; a Bible showman in Amsterdam; a teacher of the deaf in eighteenth-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 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.

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Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780062998729
eBook ISBN
9780062348746

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. 1: Could It Be Now?
  7. 2: In Transit
  8. 3: The Entertainer
  9. 4: The Time of the Nightingale
  10. 5: Music and Mourning
  11. 6: Jews Without Pain?
  12. 7: Cohabitation
  13. 8: The Crown
  14. 9: Meetings of Minds
  15. 10: Jews Without Beards
  16. 11: Citizen-Jews
  17. 12: Poh-Lin
  18. 13: Americans
  19. 14: Modernity and Its Tsuris
  20. 15: Turning Point
  21. 16: Should It Be Now?
  22. Photos Section
  23. Glossary
  24. Notes
  25. Further Reading
  26. List of Illustrations
  27. Acknowledgements
  28. Index
  29. About the Author
  30. Also by Simon Schama
  31. Credits
  32. Copyright
  33. About the Publisher