The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE - 1492 Titelbild

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE - 1492

 Reinhören
0,00 € - kostenlos hören
Aktiviere das kostenlose Probeabo mit der Option, monatlich flexibel zu pausieren oder zu kündigen.
Nach dem Probemonat bekommst du eine vielfältige Auswahl an Hörbüchern, Kinderhörspielen und Original Podcasts für 9,95 € pro Monat.
Wähle monatlich einen Titel aus dem Gesamtkatalog und behalte ihn.

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE - 1492

Von: Simon Schama
Gesprochen von: Andrew Sachs, Saul Reichlin
0,00 € - kostenlos hören

9,95 € pro Monat nach 30 Tagen. Monatlich kündbar.

Für 25,95 € kaufen

Für 25,95 € kaufen

Über diesen Titel

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.

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.

©2013 Simon Scama (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Judentum
Alle Sterne
Am relevantesten
Excellent and colourful narration of the life and times of the Jewish nation, up to the end of the medieval era. Full of portraits of prominent Jewish characters, of cities and regions, of the fates of ordinary people. Narrative history at its best, no pestering the reader with "structures" and "attitudes", but brimful with event and action. Not only the historic figures get their appearances, but also modern (i.e. very often Victorian) scholars and politicians and archaeologists who took trouble to elucidate the complicated Jewish history. Not only a schlolarly and - as far as I can judge - reliable work, but also a terrific good reading/listening. Although a bumper volume, one would like to listen on and on.

good books cannot be too long

Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Bitte versuche es in ein paar Minuten noch einmal.