The Story of the Jews (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
512
Utgivningsdatum
2014-09-11
Utmärkelser
Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 (UK)
Förlag
Vintage
Illustratör/Fotograf
3 plate sections
Illustrationer
3 plate sections
Dimensioner
198 x 131 x 34 mm
Vikt
420 g
ISBN
9780099546689

The Story of the Jews

Finding the Words (1000 BCE 1492)

av Simon Schama Cbe
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-09-11
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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. Within these pages, the Talmud burns in the streets of Paris, massed gibbets hang over the streets of medieval London, a Majorcan illuminator redraws the world; candles are lit, chants are sung, mules are packed, ships loaded with spice and gems founder at sea. 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 everyones story, too.
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Schama at his best, a labour of love, as full of memorable incident as a Bellow novel and wittier than a Woody Allen movie * The Times * Schama has written a proud and personal story of his people, one that will make a good starting point for those interested in one of historys most fascinating and tragic tales -- Josh Glancy * Sunday Times * Inspiring Schama tells it with panache, weaving facts and anecdotes into a vivid history * Observer * Unforgettablea delicious cacophony of conversations and clamorous arguments echoing across history * Daily Telegraph * A spirited, immensely enjoyable and wide-ranging account [expresses] both the triumphs and the tragedies with irrepressible enthusiasm and his customary eloquence * Financial Times *

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Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, 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). His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne.

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