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Chargement... The Story of the Jews: Belonging, 1492–1900par Simon Schama
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A história dos Judeus é sobre, e para, toda a humanidade. E na nossa época de chegadas ansiosas e partidas forçadas, a memória da procura de um lar pelos Judeus tem uma importância sem precedentes. Esta obra é uma história cultural extraordinária, palpitante de energia e cor, que se estende por séculos e continentes: partindo da expulsão dos Judeus de Espanha em 1492, navega por milagres e massacres, deambulações, discriminação, harmonia e tolerância até aos alvores do século XX, que parecia trazer uma esperança profunda para todos. CRÍTICAS DE IMPRENSA «Uma melodia rica faz-se ouvir acima do ruído do preconceito e da perseguição […] Schama tornou-se o maior divulgador da história do nosso tempo. Este segundo volume da trilogia é uma profissão de fé na narrativa grandiosa […] O seu tom familiar e informal evidencia a missão assumida por Schama: que o seu papel na história dos Judeus seja dar vida a essa mesma história […] Uma obra preciosa.» Daniel Johnson, The Times «Simon Schama é um tesouro internacional [...] Como se fosse um pintor, transmite cor, textura, forma, contexto, luz e sombra, e estimula-nos os sentidos […] É imaginativo, mordaz e intrépido […] um cicerone efervescente que ensina e diverte em igual medida.» Bernard Wasserstein, Spectator «Uma extraordinária viagem cultural, cheia de personagens coloridos e extravagantes […] Schama conduz-nos num périplo soberbo e cativante, tão inspirador como trágico.» Simon SebagMontefiore, Mail on Sunday «Rico, complexo e fascinante […] Schama capta a nossa atenção com a vivacidade da escrita e o talento para desencantar personagens cativantes, cheias de contradições humanas. E é graças a esta imersão impressionante nos dramas que o retrato de cada época se desenha lentamente perante os nossos olhos.» Andrew Anthony, Observer Uma proeza magnífica […] um desfile de gente que exsuda vitalidade [...] pintada em cores luminosas […] Com o seu elenco de personagens vibrantes, Schama desafia várias asserções estabelecidas, e mesmo estereótipos, sobre a história judaica e os próprios Judeus […] Ainda que grande parte da história dos Judeus possa ser vista como uma caminhada mortal através de catástrofes, epidemias e pogrom, o livro de Schama palpita de vida.» Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian «Magistral [...] a obra de um historiador de classe mundial no auge dos seus poderes criativos […] riquíssima, intensamente evocativa e sensorial. Com um alcance assombroso e um poder de síntese extraordinário, Schama capta o drama da história dos Judeus.» Financial Times The second volume of the author's wide and detailed history of the Jews, his one covering the medieval to the modern periods up to the end of the 19th century. The history itself is a searing one, with a continual oppression and physical assault on the Jews and their settlements across the western and Muslim worlds. Unexpectedly, the Muslim states have proven to be less unrelenting in this than the more highly "civilised" Christian societies; these latter have held all Jews to be still answerable for the martyring of Jesus, and have fomented popular revulsion by repeating various calumnies, e.g. that Jews needed the blood of human sacrifices for their rituals. The present volume stops at the brink of a revival of a Jewish state in Palestine, and also does not cover the most horrifying of the atrocities against Jews, the Nazi genocide in mid-20th century. The account is all the more searing by eschewing any self-pity or emotionalism, reflecting the philosophical resignation to the will of God adopted historically by most of the Jews themselves. The author does not seem to be proferring any theories to explain this disproportionate propensity to violence and blood-lust in a civilisation based on a religion of forgiveness and compassion (Christianity), perhaps because of the tendency of many commentators to suggest deficiencies in the Judaic system and people themselves (which would amount to blaming the victim). Thus this volume at least does not seem to be offering us any guide to the future of the Jews, or to the directions in which the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) should develop in the future if these deep fractures in world civilisation are to be bridged. Finally, a bit about the style: this is not a straight chronological narrative, but is more of a literary effort. The style is dense with unfamiliar Hebrew terms, names of persons and locations, and allusions to Biblical and classical sources. As such, it appears to presume a basic familiarity with these, perhaps not unreasonable among Westerners, but a bit of an obstacle to the average reader from other parts of the world. It is also a massive work, with perhaps more details than can be absorbed at a first reading. Much of the time, the average reader may not be very clear what the author is saying or implying. However, all this does not detract from the significance and weightiness of this book, which should probably be read by anyone willing to try and understand the world today. A história dos Judeus é sobre, e para, toda a humanidade. E na nossa época de chegadas ansiosas e partidas forçadas, a memória da procura de um lar pelos Judeus tem uma importância sem precedentes. Esta obra é uma história cultural extraordinária, palpitante de energia e cor, que se estende por séculos e continentes: partindo da expulsão dos Judeus de Espanha em 1492, navega por milagres e massacres, deambulações, discriminação, harmonia e tolerância até aos alvores do século XX, que parecia trazer uma esperança profunda para todos. To write History as narrative isn't easy, is it? Simon Schama writes it almost like a story...Telling stories, teaches history. Here is a highly recommended book review from the New Yorker on March 19, 2018: "Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write For Schama, Jewishness comprises anything Jews have done, in all the very different places and ways they have lived. The boxer Dan Mendoza was a Jew, and so was Esperanza Malchi, the confidante of a sixteenth-century royal consort in the Ottoman court—just as fully as canonical figures like Moses Maimonides, the medieval Jewish philosopher, or Theodor Herzl. Schama offers an appealingly democratic and humanistic approach to Jewish history. It is also a way of telling the story that focusses on the interactions of Jews with the non-Jewish cultures in which they lived. That is partly because of the nature of the surviving historical sources—Jews who became notable in the wider, Gentile world necessarily had an unusual degree of contact with that world—and partly because Schama is not very interested in religious practice and texts... Perhaps for similar reasons, in the second volume of his epic, Schama devotes disproportionate attention to Jews living in Western Europe and the United States, who, in the early modern period, were mostly of Sephardic ancestry, and comparatively little to the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. (The names of these two major branches of European Jewry come from the Hebrew names of their countries of origin: Ashkenaz was Germany, Sepharad was Spain.) Yet, by the nineteenth century, Eastern Europe was home to a large majority of the world’s Jews, who lived in a comprehensively Jewish society, in a way that the smaller communities of Venice or Amsterdam or Colonial America did not. The Eastern European experience fits less well into Schama’s picture of Jewish history, which emphasizes the ways Jews sought to belong—that is, to belong in Christian society. Of course, Schama uses the subtitle “Belonging” with full knowledge of its ambiguity, since it names a hope that was to be frustrated in most of Europe." Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/26/why-jewish-history-is-so-hard-to-w... aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The second of a three volume cultural history that details the journey of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of the nineteenth century, incorporating the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories. Through Schama's passionate and intelligent telling, a story emerges of the Jewish people that feels as if it is the story of everyone, of humanity packed with detail. -- Adapted from book jacket.
"Simon Schama's great project continues and the Jewish story is woven into the fabric of humanity. Their search for a home where a distinctive religion and culture could be nourished without being marginalized suddenly takes on startling resonance in our own epoch of homelessness, wanderings, persecutions, and anxious arrivals. Volume 2 of The Story of the Jews epic tells the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories: not just the rabbis and the philosophers but a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a general in Ming China; a boxer in Georgian England, a Bible showman in Amsterdam; a teacher of the deaf in eighteenth-century France, an opera composer in nineteenth-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 stagecoaches and the railways, trudges the dawn streets of London with a pack load of old clothes, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army. Through Schama's passionate and intelligent telling, a story emerges of the Jewish people that feels as if it is the story of everyone, of humanity packed with detail, this second chronicle in an epic tale will shed new light on a crucial period of history." -- Provided by publisher Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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