Belonging : the story of the Jews, 1492-1900
Schama, Simon2018
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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.
Main title:
Belonging : the story of the Jews, 1492-1900 / Simon Schama.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2018.London : Vintage, 2018.
Collation:
784 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099590064 (pbk)
Dewey class:
909.04924
Language:
English
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BRN:
2039667