Simon Schama's new history of the Jews covers several millenia in the first of two planned volumes. Reviewer J.P. O'Malley says it drives home an... In the early 1930s, an ominous, yet very familiar ...

Listeners of BBC Radio 4's Today programme were left up in arms on Tuesday after presenter Nick Robinson spoke to a series of ...

Schama is University Professor Art and Art History at Columbia University, a contributing editor at The Financial Times, and the author of 16 books, most recently The Story of the Jews: Belonging, and ...

In Simon Schama’s seminal two-volume The Story of the Jews, a line in what amounts to a historical litany of atrocity hit me with seismic force: “For the Jews,” Schama wrote, “safe havens are always ...

Schama, 61, was born in 1945 and raised in England, where his Jewish immigrant family -- his father was a textile merchant -- had sought refuge. He read history at Cambridge but found himself tempted ...