PDF Ebook The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama
From the book, you will certainly understand that analysis is definitely should do. It will direct you to get more precious spending time. By reading guides, your hung around will certainly not squander incorrectly. You can discover exactly what you need and want to observe. Here, the The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama becomes a selection to check out the book since it offers you the incredible features of the life. Even it is just the rep are for getting this kind of publication, you might see how you could delight in the book specifically.
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama
PDF Ebook The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama
Beloved visitors, when you are hunting the new book collection to read this day, The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama can be your referred publication. Yeah, even many books are supplied, this publication could steal the viewers heart a lot. The content and motif of this publication really will touch your heart. You could locate more and more experience and understanding how the life is gone through.
Make no mistake, this book is truly advised for you. Your inquisitiveness regarding this The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama will certainly be addressed faster when starting to read. In addition, when you finish this publication, you may not just address your interest but also discover real meaning. Each sentence has a really terrific definition as well as the selection of word is really unbelievable. The author of this book is very an awesome person.
Associated with why this The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama exists initially right here is that this referred publication is the one that you are seeking, aren't you? Several are likewise same with you. They likewise seek for this terrific publication as one of the sources to check out today. The referred publication in this type is going to present the preference of understanding to acquire. It is not only the particular society however likewise for the general public. This is why, you should occur in collecting all lessons, and info regarding exactly what this book has actually been written.
By clicking the web link that we provide, you can take the book The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama flawlessly. Link to net, download, and save to your gadget. Exactly what else to ask? Checking out can be so simple when you have the soft documents of this The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama in your gizmo. You could also copy the data The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama to your workplace computer or in your home as well as in your laptop computer. Simply discuss this excellent news to others. Recommend them to visit this page and also get their hunted for books The Story Of The Jews Volume One: Finding The Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, By Simon Schama.
Review
“Award-winning Columbia University historian Schama . . . brings to bear his gift for synthesizing mountains of information into a well-crafted, accessible narrative in this impressive volume that spans nearly 2,500 years and serves as a companion volume to a PBS series.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))“A multifaceted story artfully woven by an expert historian.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))“Schama has written an unconventional but masterful and deeply felt history of his people…” (Booklist (starred review))“Mr. Schama’s The Story of the Jews is exemplary popular history. It’s engaged, literate, alert to recent scholarship and, at moments, winningly personal.” (New York Times)“In his brilliant new history of the Jews, the unconventional scholar somehow manages to be simultaneously sentimental and subversive, consensual and contrarian - and we readers are the beneficiaries.” (Haaretz (English edition))“Mr. Schama’s history flashes by with entertaining velocity…” (Wall Street Journal)“An energetic cascade of prose and erudition, rife with pointillist detail and witty colloquialisms…” (Chicago Tribune, Printers Row)“Schama writes history from below, and from the middle and other unexpected angles, resurrecting the unrecorded and long-forgotten, and analyzing the social and cultural forces that shaped his subjects’ lives… [he] has pulled it off with opinionated flair and literary grace.” (New York Times Book Review)“Stirring and fascinating” (Los Angeles Times)“Schama is a historian of prodigious and varied gifts. He can take a specific subject and drill deep; he can take a wide-angled view of many countries over long periods of time. He does both in this excellent first volume… Revealing and moving.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
Read more
About the Author
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble; The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.
Read more
Product details
Series: Story of the Jews (Book 1)
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Ecco; Reprint edition (October 24, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060539208
ISBN-13: 978-0060539207
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
259 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#237,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book is really well written and very easy to follow. It just wasn't what I thought it would be; it's more of a history of Jewish-ness - like, what does it mean to be Jewish at different places and times in antiquity - sometimes told out of sequence, than it is a history of "the Jews" as a social, political and geographic tale. As someone who is not Jewish I felt like I was missing a lot of references and meaning in the discourse about what it means to practice Judaism. Not a criticism of the book or of Schama at all, it just wasn't 100% for me and that's okay.
What I most like about Schama’s book was the emphasis on the tangible. He concentrates on archeological discoveries, surviving papyrus letters and fragments, the ruins of ancient synagogue, their styles, locations and decorations, in other words, things that can be seen, felt, read. He does not start the history with Abraham, Moses and similar mythic characters for whom there is no real evidence. Since he deals mainly with the tangible, the history does not start as early as one might have thought, but starts early enough, at around 1000 B.C.E., and follows the Jews through Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Ages up until nearly the 16th century.One question that always comes to mind when reading Jewish history is how did this particular group survive when just about all other cotemporaneous religions and ethnicities disappear ages ago. Schama stresses the great advantage literacy gave the Jews for enduring cohesively through two Temple destruction, numerous exiles, attempted annihilations, forced conversions, and other scourges. Literacy seems always to have been encouraged. After all, even Yahweh himself was depicted as literate, inscribing the Ten Commandants himself and tagging Belshazzar’s wall. What other early gods sent missives to their people? I don’t recall off the top of my head Astarte, Baal, Zoroaster, Zeus depicted as reading and writing; usually their intentions were interpreted by oracles, omens and the like. But the laws of the Jews (unlike, say, the Moabites) were transcribed early on and apparently could be read a wide range of the populace. As early as the eighth century B.C.E., even heavy laborers carving a water conduit left inscriptions strongly suggesting they were literate. And from twenty-five centuries ago survive the letters of a Jewish mercenary at a faraway post to his family back home. The book has many more such examples.Simon Schama is a noted British lecturer and TV documentarian. He has a pleasant, conversational manner of speech, and he attempts to infuse this manner into his writing. So his sentences often have asides, phrases and comments through the use of commas, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks and italics. The result is that, for a history, his style seems chatty. This chattiness might be off-putting to some, but I found it pleasant, like a friend telling a story.
It goes without saying that this book is intellectually superior and informative in areas not familiar to many who will read it. The greatest virtue is Schama's writing though. Perhaps it's from seeing him on TV many times, but his tone is always that of a friendly personal conversation with the reader. Although his information is passing from a far higher level to a lower one, he never talks down. Further, Schama has often shown a level of subtle wit in his work that is the best of its sort since Gibbon. It's very difficult to think of a historian who combines information and enjoyment for the reader nearly as much.
Epic in scope. Bold and brave in confronting head-on all the ugly prejudices that the Jews have endured over the ages.Exhibit A? All that sheer nonsense about Jews killing Christians to make Matzo Soup, etc, that led to the rapacious, deadly pogroms is deconstructed, along with other myths that Christians believed for millennia in justifying their robbery, confiscation of property, and outright murder of the Jews.Myth and origin is at the heart of Schama's brilliant book. There are times he has a wicked sense of humor at the wonderment of what the wandering jews have suffered, survived, and accomplished. His journey thru history takes us from the earliest known days of the religion, the Diaspora, it's fatal union with the Christian elements over the Dark- Middle Ages, as well as it's relations to Islam. His followup is likely to be as good if not better.
One can easily be forgiven for assuming that there's no "new" way to present Jewish history, but Simon Schama has done it in this book. The focus of "The Story of the Jews" is the Torah and Talmud and how the Jewish people developed their consciousness, observances and traditions in light of those works. Ranging from Persia to England, Schama describes how Jewish communities mingled the demands of religion with the demands of the various social and political environments they lived in. The writing is superb: flowing and touched with humor as well as with emotion. It is a book to read again and again.
I find this book the best one describing the history of my nation.Although I, as a Jew in Israel, leaned and new much about the history of the Jews, Schama added so many facts I never heard about.Still reading the first Volume (in Hebrew translation p. 405) I new nothing about the great Jewish city on the Nile - Yeb were they build a Temple... I knew very little about the great importance of the archives in Cairo and Alexandria and how they transfer to us today so many important, personal and nationwide, fact during hundreds of yeas.Schama story is based not on ideas, it is based on archaeological findings from all over the globe which makes the reader more confident in the truth of the story.Schama does not lecture the story, he describes the fact like a history novel... (you can feel it best in "Ashkenaz Women ").Thanks to Schama , Thanks to BBC.Isaac Ronen
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama PDF
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama EPub
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama Doc
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama iBooks
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama rtf
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama Mobipocket
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama Kindle
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama PDF
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama PDF
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama PDF
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD, by Simon Schama PDF
