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The Story of the Jews
The Story of the Jews Episodes
5. Return
Simon Schama examines how the Holocaust and the creation of Israel have fundamentally changed what it means to be Jewish.\n\nMixing personal recollection with epic history, Simo ...
01-05-2018
BBC 4
4. Over The Rainbow
Simon Schama plunges us into the lost world of the shtetl, the Jewish towns and villages sewn across the hinterlands of eastern Europe which became the seedbed of a uniquely Jew ...
24-04-2018
BBC 4
3. A Leap Of Faith
Simon Schama explores the bright, hopeful moment when Enlightenment thinkers and revolutionary armies brought ghetto walls crashing down - allowing Jews to weave their wisdom, c ...
17-04-2018
BBC 4
2. Among Believers
Simon Schama's epic series continues with the story of medieval Jews struggling to preserve their identity - and sometimes their lives - under the rule of Christianity and Islam ...
10-04-2018
BBC 4
1. In The Beginning
The story of the Jewish experience begins 3,000 years ago with the emergence of a tribal people in a contested land and their extraordinary book, the Hebrew Bible, a chronicle o ...
05-04-2018
BBC 4