The Story of the Jews, Volume One

In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day.

It is a story like no other, spanning the millennia and the continents—from India to Andalusia to the bazaars of Cairo, from a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia to the palm groves of the Roman catacombs. What emerges is 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.