The story of the Jews
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670069798 (v. 1 : bound) :
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Physical Description:
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[xiii], 496 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Allen Lane, 2014-
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | [v. 1.] Finding the words, 1000 BCE-1492 CE. |
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Subject: | Jews -- History Jews -- Civilization -- History |
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- 9 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | 909.04924 SCH (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140001045866 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
t 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<U+2014>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."--From publisher.