Rating: Not rated
Tags: History, Jewish, Religion, Judaism, Ancient, General, Lang:en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: October 23, 2017
Added: September 7, 2019
Modified: September 7, 2019
Summary
Sigit Purwadi's
Library - In this magnificently illustrated
cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC
series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama 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.In The Story
of the Jews, 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 everyone's
story, too.