Prize winning author and Emmy-Award winner Simon Schama brings to life Jewish history and experience in this new five-part documentary series, The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama, premiering ...
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"A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation’s memory but loses a sense of what it’s like to be inside a human skin.” ...
Simon Schama didn't want "The Story of the Jews," five hours of television and two big books, to be only "pogroms and rabbinics" - his history would draw on many sources: archaeology and hermeneutics, ...
Simon Schama opens his latest book, "Foreign Bodies," with this reminder - in the end, all history is natural history. He tells how humans have contended with mass contagion and death through ...
Thirty years ago, an essay by the late public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr. explored a profound question: "The Theory of America: Experiment or Destiny?" It examined two visions of the national ...
The British-born scholar known for epic explorations of art and history tackles a more personal topic in a TV documentary. BOSTON (JTA) — For decades, Simon Schama has dazzled the public with epic ...
The French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault insisted that all history is history of the present. When we reimagine the past, we do so with the concerns and hopes of our own time. Simon Schama, a ...
In this week’s Comment, Simon Schama writes about the British elections. Today, Schama answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of the discussion follows. THE NEW YORKER: Simon Schama ...
A brutal king comes back to life in a frenzy of forensic romance. Simon Schama looks back at the strongman Richard III. Shake us. Stir us. James Bond is back and cooler than ever. The iconic spy at 50 ...
In 1776, visions of liberty and justice were fraught with compromise, conflict and contradiction. Today, the founders’ words still shape national identity ...
PASADENA, Calif. — Simon Schama has told many stories. The next one is his own. "Think of me," the British-born Schama jokes, "as your Downton rabbi." When many people think of Jewish history, they ...
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