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This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light
£18.95
Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and her Palestine Experience
Grigsby, RandyRandy Grigsby has a knack for making history come to life in his books.
Tom Arceneaux, Attorney, Associate Hadassah Lifetime Member, AIPAC ActivistIt is history shared with the gift of accuracy and compassion; a reminder...
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Tradition and Change
£17.95
Tradition and Change traces the remarkable story of the birth and development of Reform Judaism in Britain. The twenty-four families who broke away from the Orthodox establishment in 1840 to found their own independent congregation became the forerunners of the second largest synagogue movement in the country today. Its dynamic...
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Under the Heel of Bushido
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Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War
Sugarman, Martin
This book contains dozens of accounts - both horrific and inspiring, amusing and sad - of the experiences of Jewish prisoners of war and internees from Commonwealth and Dutch forces imprisoned by the Japanese during World...
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Uprooted
from £17.99
How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight
Julius, Lyn
Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave countries where they had been settled for thousands of years? What lessons can we learn from the mass exodus of minorities...
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War or Revolution
from £14.95
Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917
Shukman, Harold
When Britain was compelled to introduce conscription in 1916, the question arose of what to do with its 'friendly aliens'-its 30,000 Russian-Jewish refugees of military age. The Tsar didn't want them back to serve in his army, and they had no desire to...
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We Will Remember Them
£55.00
A Record of the Jews Who Died in the Armed Forces of the Crown from 1939 (Second Edition, Greatly Expanded and Revised)
Edited by: Morris, Henry; Sugarman, Martin
This highly illustrated second edition, first published in 1989, contains a comprehensive and indispensable history of the Jewish contribution to the British Armed Forces...
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Winds Over Jerusalem
£16.95
The Story of Rae Landy, Pioneer Nurse of Hadassah
Perkul, Debbi
Winds Over Jerusalem provides a rare, eyewitness account of Jerusalem 1913-15, a critical period in history, through the lens of two American Jewish women. It adds insight and understanding to the complex relationship that still exists between American Jews, Israel and...
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Working for the War Effort
£45.00
German-Speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War
Brinson, Charmian and Dove, RichardThis book explores a facet of British propaganda during the Second World War that has previously hardly been addressed or considered: the apparent anomaly that much of Britain’s wartime propaganda was prepared and delivered...
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Zev’s Children
£17.95
An International Jewish Family
Collins, Kenneth
This is the history of one family but it is also, in microcosm, the story of the Jewish people over the past two centuries. Kenneth Collins, the premier chronicler of Scottish Jewry ... encounters Communists and Zionists,...
