The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900
by Simon Schama
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New / Mint/As New / Mint
- ISBN 10
- 0062339575
- ISBN 13
- 9780062339577
- Seller
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Camarillo, California, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED, FIRST U.S. EDITION, MINT CONDITION/COLLECTIBLE
Casa Pacifica is selling a beautiful, pristine copy of Simon Schama's second volume, Belonging: 1492-1900 in his epic series, The Story of the Jews, in mint condition. Dust jacket is as new and is now protected in Mylar.
Signed by the author, Simon Schama, on the title page.
First U.S. edition print.
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amid grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. The first of two volumes, The Story of the Jews spans the millennia and the continents—from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes readers to unimagined places: 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 writers of the Bible 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, and ships loaded with spices 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Casa Pacifica (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0019
- Title
- The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900
- Author
- Simon Schama
- Format/Binding
- As New / Mint
- Book Condition
- New As New / Mint
- Jacket Condition
- As New / Mint
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0062339575
- ISBN 13
- 9780062339577
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York City, Ny
- Date Published
- 2017-10
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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