Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and selected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and Observer, "Belonging" is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character, and color. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492, it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice, a boxer in Georgian England, a general in Ming China, and an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany. The narrative unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine, and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stagecoaches and railways, trudges the dawn streets of London, and hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army. The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us.