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Title: Belonging

Subtitle: The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail (1492 - 1900)

Author: Simon Schama

Narrator: Saul Reichlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.

Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. It spans centuries and continents; from the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492, it navigates miracles and massacres, wandering, discrimination, harmony and tolerance, to the brink of the 20th century and, it seems, a point of profound hope.

It tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; and an opera composer in 19th-century Germany. The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stage coaches and the railways, trudges the dawn streets of London and hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army.

Through Schama's passionate telling of this second chronicle in an epic tale, a history emerges of the Jewish people that feels it is the story of everyone, of humanity.

Members Reviews:

A wide ranging history of the Jewish people.

Many useful insights into Jewish history, culture, religion and thought. The mini biographies of famous, and not so famous individuals are particularly interesting and help to tell the bigger story.

Excellent sequel

Simon Schama continues his much anticipated epic history of the Jews and doesnt disappoint. Brilliant.