Description
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and selected as a Book of the Year 2017 by The Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and Observer, this magnificent cultural history is vividly alive with energy, character and colour. From the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, it tells the stories not only of rabbis and philosophers, but also of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice, a boxer in Georgian England, a general in Ming China and an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany. The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, among the starlit hills of Galilee, along the rivers of Colombia, in the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, travels by stagecoach and railway, trudges through the dawn streets of London and hobbles along with the remnants of Napoleon’s ruined army. The Jewish story is a history about, and for, all of us. In our own time of anxious arrivals and forced departures, the Jewish search for a home is more resonant than ever.
Information
Author: Schama Simon
Language: English
Publication date: October 4, 2018
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 800
ISBN/EAN: 9780099590064