The Story of the Jews (book)

The Story of the Jews

Cover of the first volume
Author Simon Schama
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject Jewish history
Published 2013 (first volume)
2014 (second volume)

The Story of the Jews is a two-volume book by British historian Simon Schama.[1] The first volume, entitled Finding the Words 1000BCE – 1492CE,[2] was published in the United Kingdom in September 2013.[3] The second volume, entitled When Words Fail: 1492 – Present, was published in November 2014.[4]

A television series, based on Schama's book, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in September 2013[5] and in the United States on PBS in March and April 2014.[6]

Reception

In his review for The New York Times, Dwight Garner wrote:

"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... Mr. Schama is Jewish, but not especially religious... His loyalty is obviously to the hard evidence. At the same time, he declares that “the ‘minimalist’ view of the Bible as wholly fictitious, and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of a mistake as the biblical literalism it sought to supersede."[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Simon Schama Jewish history book up for literary prize". BBC News. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Schama, Simon. The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE – 1492CE (2013), Bodley Head, ISBN 978-1847921321
  3. ↑ Frazer, Jenni (28 August 2013). "Making a history of UK Jews for the BBC was so daunting, reveals Simon Schama". The Jewish Chronicle. London. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "The On-Sale Calendar: November 2014". Publishers Weekly. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "The Story of the Jews". Programme information. BBC. 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama". PBS. 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  7. ↑ Garner, Dwight (10 March 2014). "The Jews, a History in So Many, Many Words". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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