In this special episode of Soul Search, historian Simon Schama speaks about his new book Belonging: The Story of the Jews. He was in conversation with scholar Paul Holdengraber at the Sydney Writers' Festival earlier this year.

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Folge vom 01.09.2019Simon Schama's story of the Jews
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Folge vom 25.08.2019Rumi, Hafez and Sufi poetry in surprising placesRumi's poetry is beloved around the world, but has his specifically Sufi Muslim insights been translated away? And we'll also head to the NSW mining town of Broken Hill, where historian Samia Khatun found a mysterious 150-year-old book of Bengali Sufi poetry at the old mosque. So how did it get there, and how did reading it change her?
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Folge vom 18.08.2019Asian Christianities beyond AsiaHow do you imagine the face of contemporary Christianity? A hundred years ago, about two-thirds of the world's Christians lived in Europe. Now, only about a quarter do — but in the Asia Pacific, that number has tripled. Meredith Lake explores stories of Christian faith from the Asian diaspora.
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Folge vom 11.08.2019Self discovery — with a Hindu twistWhat happens when stories of your homeland or cultural roots are shrouded in secrecy and pain? Author Aatish Taseer is the son of an Indian Sikh and a Pakistani Muslim, whose search for his roots led him to Varanasi, the ‘spiritual capital of India’. And the mother and son duo behind Counting and Cracking reveal how the play helped them understand Sri Lanka's past.