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The Jews of England and The Revolutionary Era
£50.00
1789 – 1815
Jeremy SmilgThis is a wonderful and accessible book written with energy and enthusiasm incorporating political, social, cultural and religious history. It is the first to explore the responses of English Jewry to the French Revolution and how British politics and...
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The Jews of England and the Revolutionary Era
£19.95
1789 – 1815
Smilg, JeremyThis is a wonderful and accessible book written with energy and enthusiasm incorporating political, social, cultural and religious history. It is the first to explore the responses of English Jewry to the French Revolution and how British politics and culture dealt with ‘the Jew’ at a...
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The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915
from £22.50
Between Tradition and Transformation
Schächter, Elizabeth
In this book, author Elizabeth Schachter challenges the widely held view that Jewish integration in Italy - from the second emancipation (1848) to the First World War - was an unqualified success, and thus an anomaly in European Jewish history. She draws on contemporary Jewish journals,...
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The Jews of Lemberg
from £18.95
A Journey to Empty Places
Driebergen, Michiel; Zorgdrager, Heleen
A hundred years ago Lemberg (also known as Lviv and Lwow) was part of the Habsburg Empire and famed for its splendour and rich cultural life. Until the German occupation in 1941, a Jewish community of over 100,000 people lived in Lwow. When...
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The Jews of Lithuania
£19.95
A Journey Through the long Twentieth Century
Sayers, Nick
This book is the result of a personal quest to understand more about Nick’s family background in eastern Europe. It leads him to dig deeply into many of the big questions about modern Jewish history in Lithuania.
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The Jews of Poznan
£12.95
Pakula, Zbigniew
The Holocaust swept away the centuries-old Jewish community of Pozna? in western Poland. Zbigniew Pakula traces the history of that community, its institutions, and its response to crucial but little-known events like the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany in 1938. The Jews of Pozna? however, is not only...
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The Journey to the Arab Spring
£50.00
The Ideological Roots of the Middle East Upheaval in Arab Liberal Thought
Govrin, David
This book analyzes the roots of the ideological discourse among distinguished Arab intellectuals and liberals regarding political reforms and democratization processes in the Arab states during the three decades that preceded the 'Arab Spring.' It fills a void...
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The King's Own Loyal Enemy Aliens
from £25.00
German and Austrian Refugees in Britain's Armed Forces, 1939-45
Leighton-Langer, Peter
During the Second World War, 10,000 Germans and Austrians volunteered to join the British Forces from the UK. Most were refugees, but there were others also. From 1939 until 1943 most served in the 18 so-called Alien Companies of the Pioneer...
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The Left Against Zion
£35.00
Communism, Israel and the Middle East
Communist opposition to Zionism has a long history which pre-dates both the Russian Revolution and the Balfour Declaration of November 1917. Yet the Communist and Marxist critique of Zionism has always had a curious inconsistency, since it is not applied to all nationalist solutions of...
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The Liberation of Jerusalem
£24.50
The War of Independence of 1948 first gave rise to the divided city of Jerusalem, in which the Old City remained in Arab hands. This book analyzes the Six-Day War, a 72-hour period which shook the Jewish world, in which General Uzi Narkiss commanded the battle to reclaim Jerusalem for...
