Dead ringers simon schama biography

 " Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation.

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We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."

  Simon Schama was born in London in February 1945 into a Jewish family - both sets of grandparents had fled persecution, one from the remnants of the Ottoman empire, the other from Lithuania.

Immigration, movement, cultural collision are part of his experience and are central themes in his work.

  His father was a textile merchant who did well enough after the war for the family to move out to Essex, where they lived near Leigh-on-Sea.

The young Schama enjoyed the non-kosher delights of Southend - he calls it "gloriously lurid" and salivates over the "flaccid, vinegar-saturated chips" and "cylinders