The Story of the Jews, Volume 2: Belonging 1492 - 1900, Simon Schama, c. 2017

The Story of the Jews, Volume 2: Belonging 1492 - 1900, Simon Schama, c. 2017. 909SCH.

This second volume is not divided into "parts." Simply, sixteen chapters.

Chapter 1: Could it be now?

• the Sambatyon River, sometime, somewhere between Africa and Hindustan; 

Chapter 2: In transit.

Portugal, late 15th to 16th century

Chapter 3: The Entertainer

Chapter 4: The Time of the Nightingale

• the Ottoman Empire

Chapter 5: Music and Mourning

• 17th century

Chapter 6: Jews Without Pain?

• the Jesuit mission in China, early 17th century

Chapter 7:  Cohabitation

• 17th century, continued

Chapter 8: The Crown

• Amsterdam to Scotland; 1665

Chapter 9: Meetings of Minds

• Germany, 17 century

Chapter 10: Jews Without Beards

• late 18th century

Chapter 11: Citizen-Jews

• 1750: France

Chapter 12: Poh-Lin

• eastern Europe, Russia; early 20th century
• the legend of the Jews arriving in Poland
• driven west by the crusades
• "Poland" written on a tree; mistakenly written as pohin
• in Yiddish, poh-lin means "rest here" and the rest, as they say, is history (or Polish). LOL.
  

Chapter 13: Americans

• wow, wow, wow - Charlottesville, VA, early 1800s

Chapter 14: Modernity and its Tsuris

• mid-century; 20th century; Europe; 

Chapter 15:  Turning Point

• 19th and 20th century; almost now

Chapter 16: Should It Be Now?

• the Jews in the movies