Biographies
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Berlin to London
£14.99
An Emotional History of Two Refugees
Saraga, Esther
Foreword by Tony KushnerEsther Saraga tells a touching and disturbing story of her parents’ emigration from Germany and their lives in Britain during and after the war. She questions whether ‘gratitude’ to Britain was the emotion most expected of them, and she...
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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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Chief Rabbi Hertz
£20.00
The Wars of the Lord
Taylor, Derek
Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946), perhaps Britain's greatest Chief Rabbi, led his community through two World Wars and was instrumental in the rescue of Jewish refugees from Nazism. He published many books and edited the seminal Hertz Chumash. Rabbi Hertz was a...
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Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler
£19.95
The Forgotten Founder
Taylor, Derek
New in paperback 16th October 2020
Derek Taylor has written a comprehensive and highly readable biography which will restore Adler to his true place in history.--Elkan D Levy ***Nathan Marcus Adler remains the longest serving Chief Rabbi in the history of Anglo-Jewry. Yet...
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Confessions of a Serial Biographer
£14.95
New and Expanded Edition
Freedland, Michael
Confessions of a Serial Biographer is the story (or rather the stories) of Michael Freedland, a man who has mingled with celebrities since he was a teenage junior newspaper reporter. He has been involved with some of the iconic names of Hollywood and showbiz in general...
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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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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...