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The Story of the Jews; Finding the words, 1000 BCE - 1492 CE

Door Simon Schama

Categorie
Israël & Judaica
Boeknummer
#374451-XI33
Titel
The Story of the Jews; Finding the words, 1000 BCE - 1492 CE
Auteur
Schama, Simon
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : The Bodley Head
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
1847921329
ISBN13
9781847921321
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original grey boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, illustrations (including photographs) mostly in colour, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 âe" 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 ... (Lees verder)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 âe" as often imagined âe" 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 everyoneâe(tm)s story, too.
Pagina's
516
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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