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Author Schama, Simon, author.

Title The story of the Jews : finding the words, 1000 BC-1492 AD / Simon Schama.

Publication Info. New York : : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  909.04 SCHAMA    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  909.04 SCHAMA    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.0492 SCHAMA    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  909.0492 SC16    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  909.049 SCHAMA    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  909.0492 SCHAMA    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  909.0492 S    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  909.04 SCH    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  909 SCH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  909.04924 SCH    Check Shelf

Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 496 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Note "Originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by the Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK"--Title-page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-465) and index.
Contents Papyrus, potsherd, parchment. In Egypt ; The words ; Delving, divining-- ; Classical Jews? -- Mosaic, parchment, paper. The Menorah and the Cross ; Among the believers ; The women of Ashkenaz ; Trials ; Exile from exile.
Summary The first volume of a three-part cultural history tie-in to the PBS and BBC series by the same name.
Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. 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. 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 everyone's story, too. -- From publisher's description.
Local Note AVONNFIC, PORTNONFIC, PLNVNONFIC, BURLADFIC, ENFDNFIC
Subject Jews -- History.
Added Title Story of the Jews (Television program)
ISBN 0060539186
9780060539184: $39.99
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