Simon Schama CBE Collection 2 Books Set Belonging, Story of the Jews

Name: Simon Schama CBE Collection 2 Books Set Belonging, Story of the Jews
Brand: Simon Schama

Simon Schama

Description. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Mixed Lot. The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492). 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.Within these pages, 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..... Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900. Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colo...