1847922805 
Hardback Belonging : the story of the Jews, 1492-1900 / Simon Schama.
Publication year: 2014
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : The Bodley Head,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781847922809 (hbk.) :
Notes:
The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And 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 cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. It spans centuries and continents, from the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it navigates miracles and massacres, wandering, discrimination, harmony and tolerance; to the brink of the 20th-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 19th-century Germany.
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784 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Scholarly, readable and interesting.
15/12/17