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The story of the Jews, volume 2. Belonging 1492-1900 / Simon Schama.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670068289 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 790 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Allen Lane, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| Subject: | Jews > Civilization > History. Jews > History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 909.04924 Sch | 31681010074631 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
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 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.
