It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to 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 Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain. And a great story unfolds. 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.
Die Geschichte der Juden Reihe
Diese umfangreiche Reihe enthüllt das fesselnde Panorama der jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur über Jahrtausende und Kontinente hinweg. Sie untersucht die immense Widerstandsfähigkeit, Kreativität und Freude des jüdischen Volkes angesichts unvorstellbarer Herausforderungen. Von den Anfängen in der Antike über die Entdeckung der Neuen Welt bis in die heutige Zeit bieten diese Werke einen faszinierenden Einblick in eine einzigartige Reise, die sowohl eine Geschichte des Überlebens als auch der bereichernden Auseinandersetzung mit umgebenden Kulturen ist.
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