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Rescue the Perishing
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Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees
Cohen, Susan
Rescue the Perishing is the first study to date of Eleanor Rathbone's commitment to the 'refugee question' from 1933 until her death in 1946. It explains how, from a working life devoted to championing the cause of the disadvantaged, the impoverished and the underrepresented in...
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Rome's Wars in Parthia
£19.95
Blood in the Sand
Sheldon, Rose Mary
The leader of an empire invades Iraq. He has inadequate intelligence and underestimates the resistance of the locals, but he believes his overwhelming military strength will bring him a swift victory. His army overruns the area between the Tigris and the Euphrates, but as soon...
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Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry 1800-2000
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Finestein, Israel
This volume consists of articles by Israel Finestein written over a period of more than fifty years. He was throughout a close observer of the Jewish scene and latterly a prominent participant. These wide-ranging studies graphically present significant features of Jewish public life in Anglo-Jewry or bearing upon that...
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Soldiers' Tales
£50.00
Two Palestinian Jewish Soldiers in the Ottoman Army during the First World War
Abramson, Glenda
Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western Anatolia with the labor battalions during World War I. They kept detailed notes of their dreadful experiences...
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Taming the Middle Eastern Elephant
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Confronting Antisemitism in the Arab–Israeli Conflict
Stone, David H.
David Stone’s masterful account exposes how the root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict lies in a continuing and virulent antisemitism cloaked in anti-Zionism. A depressing but essential message that deserves to be widely read,...
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The Champagne Spy
£17.95
Israel’s Man in Egypt
Lotz, WolfgangThe 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.
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The Clothes on our Backs
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How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade
Nyburg, Anna
Jews had long been active in the clothing trade in Europe, developing new production and retail methods and excelling as designers. However, in the UK clothes production was mostly conservative and design was not a concept. What happened to...
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The Frankfurt Judengasse
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Jewish Life in an Early Modern German City
Edited by: Backhaus, Fritz; Engel, Gisela; Liberles, Robert; Schlüter, Margarete
Frankfurt was one of the most important centers of Jewish life in central Europe. In 1462, the Frankfurt City Council ordered the resettlement of the Jews in an especially constructed street, surrounded by walls...
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The Impact of Zionism and Israel on Anglo-Jewry's Identity, 1948-1982
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Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut
Omer-Jackaman, Jack
'Thanks to the might of Israel, even Diaspora Jews can hold their heads up high'; so remarks Tomer in Amos Oz's 1966 novel Elsewhere, Perhaps. This quotation speaks to the profound impact which Zionism's successful campaign for Jewish statehood had on the...
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The Jewish Community of Salonika
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History, Memory, Identity
Lewkowicz, Bea
This book is a pioneering study of the often forgotten Sephardi voices of the Holocaust. It is an account of the Sephardi Jewish community of the Greek city of Salonika, which at one point numbered 80,000 members, but which was almost completely annihilated during the German occupation...
