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The: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
Ecco
March 2014
On Sale: March 18, 2014
512 pages
ISBN: 0060539186
EAN: 9780060539184
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
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.
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