The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD - Tapa blanda

"In his brilliant new history of the Jews, the unconventional scholar somehow manages to be simultaneously sentimental and subversive, consensual and contrarian - and we readers are the beneficiaries."--Haaretz (English edition)

"Schama writes history from below, and from the middle and other unexpected angles, resurrecting the unrecorded and long-forgotten, and analyzing the social and cultural forces that shaped his subjects' lives... [he] has pulled it off with opinionated flair and literary grace."--New York Times Book Review

"Stirring and fascinating"--Los Angeles Times

"Schama is a historian of prodigious and varied gifts. He can take a specific subject and drill deep; he can take a wide-angled view of many countries over long periods of time. He does both in this excellent first volume... Revealing and moving."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Mr. Schama's history flashes by with entertaining velocity..."--Wall Street Journal

"An energetic cascade of prose and erudition, rife with pointillist detail and witty colloquialisms..."--Chicago Tribune, Printers Row

"Reading Schama is like sitting across from the world's most dazzling dinner party guest..."--Seattle Times

"The story that Schama tells is wide-ranging, well documented, delightful, amusing, personal, and inspring..."--New York Review of Books

"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."--New York Times

"A multifaceted story artfully woven by an expert historian."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)