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  • Operation Messiah

    Operation Messiah

    £19.95

    St Paul, Roman Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity

    Sheldon, Rose Mary; Voskuilen, Thijs

    Saul of Tarsus is one of the best known and most beloved figures of Christianity. This man, later known as St. Paul, set the tone for Christianity, including an emphasis on celibacy, the theory of divine grace and...

  • Opportunities that Pass

    Opportunities that Pass

    £18.00

    An Historical Miscellany

    Roth, Cecil

    Edited by: Finestein, Israel; Roth, Joseph

    Cecil Roth was the first Anglo-Jewish historian to become a household name. In addition to his numerous books Roth wrote many articles for a wide range of journals in Britain and overseas, notably in America, on Jewish life and history. This volume...

  • Orthodox Judaism in Britain since 1913

    Orthodox Judaism in Britain since 1913

    £19.95

    An Ideology Forsaken

    Freud-Kandel, Miri

    In 1991, just as Jonathan Sacks was acceding to the post of Chief Rabbi, the United Synagogue, the largest synagogal institution in British Jewry, commissioned a report entitled A Time for Change. This report identified the significant difficulties in which many of the Orthodox institutions of British...

  • Ostrava and its Jews

    Ostrava and its Jews

    £23.00

    'Now No-One Sings You Lullabies'

    Lawson, David; Salomonovicova, Libuse; Sustkova, Hana

    The story of Ostrava and its Jews encapsulates in a small space (85 square miles) and a short time (ca. 150 years) a miniaturized history of Central Europe. It covers industrialization and massive economic growth, immigration and emigration, intolerance and tolerance,...

  • Perlzweig

    Perlzweig

    £40.00

    Pioneer of British Zionism

    Perlzweig, Maurice

    Edited by: Caute, David

    Maurice L. Perlzweig (1895-1985) was the eldest son of an immigrant Jewish cantor and musical composer. The young Maurice gained degrees at UCL and Christ's College, Cambridge. Having abandoned Orthodox Judaism, he became second minister at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue...

  • Photographs of Childhood and Parenting on Kibbutz

    Photographs of Childhood and Parenting on Kibbutz

    £50.00

    Collective Memories and Private Memorials
    Barromi-Perlman, Edna

    What is it that we wish to see in our photo albums? Reality as it was, or a selected, upgraded version of our past? Can we control the memories we pass on? These are some of the thought-provoking questions that Edna Barromi-Perlman raises...

  • Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory

    Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory

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    Zakor v'Makor

    Edited by: Cesarani, David; Kushner, Tony; Shain, Milton

    This book was a finalist in the 2009 Jewish Book Council Awards in the category of Anthologies and Collections. The twelve essays in this fascinating collection range broadly over time, covering the period from early modern era to the early twenty first...

  • Poland What Have I To Do With Thee ?

    Poland What Have I To Do With Thee ?

    £18.50

    Essays Without Prejudice

    Scharf, Rafael F

    208 pages

    Copyright: 12/16/1998

  • Politics by Other Means

    Politics by Other Means

    £25.00

    The Free German League of Culture in London, 1939-1946

    Brinson, Charmian; Dove, Richard; Müller-Härlin, Anna

    Politics by Other Means traces the development and historical significance of the Free German League of Culture, the foremost organization representing anti-Nazi German refugees in Britain during the years of the Second World War. During...

  • Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain

    Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain

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    Pendlebury, Alyson

    The book focuses on Britain during the First World War and the immediate post-war period, and examines the use of biblical imagery with regard to representations of the nation and its perceived enemies. The study is constructed around four rhetorical themes: 'crusade', 'conversion', 'crucifixion' and 'apocalypse', and traces these...