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  • Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated

    Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated

    £25.00

    Last Voices
    Sugarman, Martin

    Here for the first time is the account of the essential part played by Jewish personnel in the Fire Service in the Second World War.  

    Ever civic minded, Jews from all social backgrounds were pre-war volunteers to be trained for...

  • King of Children

    King of Children

    £20.00

    The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

    Lifton, Betty

    This is the tragic story of Janusz Korczak (as featured in the major motion picture The Zookeeper's Wife) who chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the Jewish orphans in his care. Korczak comes alive in this acclaimed biography by Betty Jean...

  • Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish

    Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish

    £16.95

    My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath
    Chamberlain, Maria

    With a scientific mind and a profound personal dedication, Maria Chamberlain takes her reader on a journey into the family history. The book combines research and reflection, history and memory, and provides rare insights into...

  • Opening the Drawer

    Opening the Drawer

    £17.50

    The Hidden Identities of Polish Jews

    Cohen, Barry

    Made up of contributions by the three generations of Polish Jews ... it gives a multi-sided and nuanced picture not only of Jewish identity in Poland but of the complex history of Poland and its Jews from the Second World War to...

  • 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...

  • The Champagne Spy

    The Champagne Spy

    £17.95

    Israel’s Man in Egypt
    Lotz, Wolfgang 

    The true story of Wolfgang Lotz, nicknamed The Champagne Spy by his handler. His story bears a striking similarity to that of Eli Cohen, portrayed by Sasha Baron Cohen in Netflix’s The Spy.

    As a top...

  • This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light

    This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light

    £18.95

    Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and her Palestine Experience
    Grigsby, Randy

    Randy Grigsby has a knack for making history come to life in his books.
    Tom Arceneaux, Attorney, Associate Hadassah Lifetime Member, AIPAC Activist

    It is history shared with the gift of accuracy and compassion; a reminder...

  • Winds Over Jerusalem

    Winds Over Jerusalem

    £16.95

    The Story of Rae Landy, Pioneer Nurse of Hadassah

    Perkul, Debbi

    Winds Over Jerusalem provides a rare, eyewitness account of Jerusalem 1913-15, a critical period in history, through the lens of two American Jewish women. It adds insight and understanding to the complex relationship that still exists between American Jews, Israel and...

  • Zev’s Children

    Zev’s Children

    £17.95

    An International Jewish Family

    Collins, Kenneth 

    This is the history of one family but it is also, in microcosm, the story of the Jewish people over the past two centuries. Kenneth Collins, the premier chronicler of Scottish Jewry ... encounters Communists and Zionists,...