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Sep 30, 2013 · Was it the traditional Jewish myth of salvation which Jews tell to make sense of their world, or that story critiqued from the standpoint of scholarship, or his own very personal take on...
Philip Alexander, professor of post-Biblical Jewish literature at the University of Manchester, finds much to praise in Schama’s history, arguing that the presentation of the creation of Israel and its existence is balanced. He also finds much to critique. Alexander focuses his blog post on Zionist and anti-Zionist views of the documentary.
Schama made a further criticism of the party in July 2019, when he joined other leading Jewish figures in saying, in a letter to The Guardian, that the crisis was "a taint of international and historic shame" and that trust in the party was "fractured beyond repair".
Jan 23, 2015 · After the United Nations Partition Plan, in November 1947, and the surprising survival of the Jewish state, Jewish communities in Arab countries found themselves all treated as a “fifth column...
Mar 21, 2014 · In a five-part series beginning on PBS stations next week, noted historian Simon Schama explores 3,000 years of Jewish history. What sustained Jews through anti-Semitism and persecution?
Reception. In his review of the first volume for The New York Times, Dwight Garner wrote: "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... Mr. Schama is Jewish, but not especially religious...
Oct 13, 2023 · Confronted with enormity: murdered infants, abducted grandmothers, slaughtered villagers, lusty chants of “gas the Jews” at the Free Palestine demonstration in Sydney, mere words feel like ...
