The Story of the Jews
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Dead certainties: Unwarranted speculations
Nonfiction
Patriots and liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780–1813
Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Landscape and Memory
Rembrandt's Eyes
A History of Britain: Volume I
A History of Britain: Volume II
A History of Britain: Volume III
Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly)
Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution
Simon Schama's Power of Art
The American Future: A History
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother
Credits
Cover artwork: background pattern and roundel by Zeev Raban, from The Song of Songs (published by Hasefer, Berlin 1923), reproduced by kind permission of the Doron and Winter family, Jerusalem.
The PBS Logo is a registered trademark of the Public Broadcasting Service and used with permission.
Copyright
Grateful acknowledgement is made to: Princeton University Press for permission to excerpt from The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry From Muslim and Christian Spain 950–1492 by Peter Cole; Gefen Publishing House for permission to excerpt from Grand Things to Write a Poem On: A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid by Hillel Halkin; Schocken Books for permission to excerpt from Yehuda Halevi, by Hillel Halkin; The University of Alabama Press for permission to excerpt from Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel Ibn Nagrela, trans. Leon J. Weinberger; Oxford University Press, Inc. for permission to excerpt from Wine, Women and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life, by Raymond P. Scheindlin.
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