Biographies » Jewish Heritage
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A Wing and A Prayer
£18.95
My Life and Times
Weisman, MalcolmMalcolm has made such a significant contribution to so many areas for so long a time that this project is vital to ensure that his work is properly recorded and recognised. ... It is fair to say...
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Becoming Kathrine Talbot
£19.95
A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented
Ribbat, ChristophChristoph Ribbat’s remarkable book is a creative biography and literary retrieval of Kathrine Talbot, née Ilse Gross ... It will make everyone who reads it reconsider what they believe they know about the lives of refugees, and rush to...
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Bouncing Back – and Forward
£35.00
From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship
Reif, Stefan C.Awarded an OBE in the 2020 October Queen’s Honours List
Alternately gritty, funny, and deeply touching, but always honest and insightful, this is a revealing account of a life, with yet more to give, dedicated triumphantly to the highest standards of scholarly...
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Bouncing Back – and Forward
£18.95
From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship
Reif, Stefan C.Awarded an OBE in the 2020 October Queen’s Honours List
Alternately gritty, funny, and deeply touching, but always honest and insightful, this is a revealing account of a life, with yet more to give, dedicated triumphantly to the highest standards of scholarly...
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Chapters of Accidents
£16.95
A Writer’s Memoir
Baron, Alexander
Colin Holmes and Nick Baron (Eds)Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period.
John Williams, The Guardian
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Creating a Storm
£18.95
Jewish Women in the World of Arts and Culture
Seddon, Isabelle
Foreword by Dame Maureen LipmanIt is to Isabelle Seddon’s great credit that she marks the contributions of the early pioneers, as well as those who have done sterling work in more recent years.
Rabbi Dame Julia NeubergerHere...
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Debating the Zeitgeist and being Second Generation
£19.95
David, Miriam E. and Moos, Merilyn (Eds)
This book is not a study about the second generation but gives voice to the second generation themselves. It provides fascinating and unique insights as to how the ‘second generation’ feels about themselves and their place within...
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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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Escape from Benghazi
£18.95
Diary of an Imposter
Meghnagi, EliaMeghnagi takes us on a cultural and political tour of Benghazi and its Jewish community in the twentieth century under Italian, British and Arab regimes. In doing so he reveals with a masterful and at times funny...
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Exodus Too
£18.99
The Story of an Ordinary Egyptian Jewish Family in Extraordinary Times
Tamman, Gabriel
[T]he time may soon be coming when the events that have taken place in the region will have to be considered as part of the great exchanges of population that have...
