Live: The Story of the Jews

In partnership with Editorial Intelligence and the British Council, writer and historian Simon Schama will be giving a talk about ‘The Story of the Jews’ which forms the basis for his new book and recent BBC TV series. The talk will take place on Monday, 7 October 2013, at 18:30 BST. Please visit this page to watch a live webcast of the event.

 

 

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings and The American Future.

 

His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne and won an Emmy for The Power of Art.