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Did You Ever Meet Hitler, Miss?
£9.95
A Holocaust Survivor Talks to Young People
Levi, Trude
Teaching the Holocaust is a difficult and sensitive task. The facts and figures are readily available but it is the individual experiences that engage and interest pupils and allow them to understand the full implications of the Holocaust. Consequently, this book by Trude...
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Disraelis Jewishness
from £18.95
Edited by: Endelman, Todd; Kushner, Tony
The subject of Disraeli's jewishness was one that obsessed contemporaries but was subsequently downplayed by historians and others until very recently. The essays in this volume provide a new perspective, stressing the importance of Disraeli's Jewishness in the construction of his personality, ideology and politics...
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Divided We Stand
£40.00
A Journey with Judge Israel Finestein QC
Lang, Colin
The late Israel Finestein was an outstanding lawyer, historian and lay leader of the British Jewish community. This book of essays by his nephew, Colin Lang, in part an evocation, in part a continuation of his teachings, is a fitting tribute...
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Divine Pathos and Human Being
from £18.95
The Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Chester, Michael A.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Jewish refugee from Nazism, became a significant theologian and social activist in the USA, though relatively unknown in the UK. The first part of this book contains a brief biography, which puts his work into context, personally, culturally and...
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Don Pacifico
£19.95
The Acceptable Face of Gunboat Diplomacy
Taylor, Derek
The house of Don Pacifico, president of the Jewish community in Athens, was looted by a mob in April 1847. The riot was government-inspired and the courts were crooked. There was little chance of getting the large compensation Pacifico claimed - until Palmerston, the...
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Double Jeopardy
£18.95
Gender and the Holocaust
Baumel, Judith
This volume contains a collection of essays examining the Holocaust from the perspective of gender. The book is divided into seven sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the discourse between gender and identity. Following a historical introduction delineating the basic framework for understanding women's...
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East End Jews and Left-Wing Theatre
from £25.00
Alfie Bass, David Kossoff, Warren Mitchell and Lionel Bart
Seddon, Isabelle
This is a wonderful book that places these Jewish artists in a historical-cultural context. This is not only a British story, but a much wider Jewish one for which Isabelle Seddon provides many interesting insights.
Colin Shindler, The Jerusalem Post
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Echoes of a Lost Voice
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Encounters with Primo Levi
Calcagno, Giorgio; Poli, Gabriella
Edited by: Angier, Carole
New in paperback April 2020
Primo Levi - chemist, Italian, Jew, survivor of Auschwitz - was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, If This Is a Man, is still one of...
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Emanuel Ringelblum and Reuven Ben-Shem's War Writings
£60.00
Perceptions of space in the Warsaw Ghetto
Nizan, Victoria
History and politics were two important concepts defining Jewish identity prior to the Second World War. This book explores how these were expressed in the war writings of Emanuel Ringelblum and Reuven Ben-Shem, inmates...
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English Jew 2nd Ed
from £16.95
The Life and Writings of Claude Montefiore
Edited by: Kessler, Edward
205 pages
Copyright: 3/1/2002
