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Schama was born on 13 February 1945 in Marylebone, London. [1] [6] His mother, Gertie (née Steinberg), was from an Ashkenazi Lithuanian Jewish family (from Kaunas, present-day Lithuania), and his father, Arthur Schama, was of Sephardi Jewish background (from Smyrna, present-day İzmir in Turkey), later moving through Moldova and Romania.
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE–1492 CE is a book by the British historian Simon Schama, [1] which is being published in three volumes. [2] The first volume, entitled Finding the Words, 1000BCE – 1492CE, [3] was published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head in September 2013. [4]
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492–1900, Volume 2 is a 2017 book by Simon Schama on the cultural history of the Jewish people. Belonging is the second volume of Schama's Story of the Jews, the first being The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000BCE – 1492CE. Belonging was published by Penguin Random House in October 2017. [1]
Abba Eban, Israeli writer about Israeli and Jewish history; Ludwig Edelstein, ancient medicine [citation needed] Alfred Edersheim Australian Jewish historian and Biblical scholar [citation needed] Victor Ehrenberg, German historian of the ancient world [2] Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe [2] Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian [2]
Simon's parents fled the Soviet Union because they were Jewish. That is a very different experience than someone who grew up in L.A., not being exposed to the kind of antisemitism that they were ...
Over its four remaining parts, The Story of the Jews promises to be not only a chronological history, but also a common narrative of what unifies and fortifies Jewish people". [7] For The Guardian, Arifa Akbar said: "Simon Schama’s story was as much an investigation into identity as it was the beginning of a difficult history". [8]
In the late 19th century, there was mass Jewish immigration to England from Russia due to Russian domestic policy. In the 1930s, the country accepted many refugees from Nazism. The Jewish population peaked at 450,000, but has since declined due to low birth-rate, intermarriage and emigration, mainly of the younger generation to Israel.
In an overview of the place of Kaifeng Jews within the broader context of Jewish history, Simon Schama notes its exceptionality to the tragic diffidence of host societies to Jewish settlements:- To survey the predicament of Jews in much of the rest of the world is to marvel at what the Kaifeng community escaped.