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• Simon Schama:

  It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the cremator

• Simon Schama:

  Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

• Simon Schama:

  The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complica

• Simon Schama:

  The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. B

• Simon Schama:

  I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of

• Simon Schama:

  We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part

• Simon Schama:

  By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mer

• Simon Schama:

  In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution,

• Simon Schama:

  The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the

• Simon Schama:

  The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much ove