Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama (PBS broadcast)




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1 comment:

  1. The visuals are magnificent, Shama is a proud Jew and a clever, interesting storyteller, so there is much to like in this series. I do object to his equating Elephantine to the Bais Hamikdash or the Dura Europos mosaics to the Mishneh...it's eccentric and unbalanced and has one purpose , to show Jews were always an open society mingling easily with their neighbors. Yes, no ,maybe...but the thesis needs more proof than a one sided telling of the Jewish story.

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