Jewish History
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Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated
£25.00
Last Voices
Sugarman, MartinHere 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... -
Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970
from £19.95
Their Image in AJR Information
Grenville, Anthony
Between 1933 and the outbreak of war in 1939, over 60,000 Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia fled to Britain, and some 50,000 settled there. No previous historical study of this group of immigrants exists, though they form one of the most high-profile groups...
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Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece
£19.95
Bowman, Steven
This is the first systematic study of the Jews in the Greek resistance based on archival research and personal interviews. It covers Jews in various aspects of resistance in Greece and other concentration camps. The book is a contribution to the overall story of Greek resistance against the Nazi...
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Jewish Symbols and Secrets
£50.00
A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Carpet
Felton, Anton
In the hundred years that led up to expulsion in 1492, hundreds of thousands of Spanish Jews converted publically - but not privately - to Christianity. They left some clues to their compelling and dangerous secret lives, revealed through personal artifacts. This book examines one such...
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Jews in Glasgow 1879-1939
£19.95
Immigration and Integration
Braber, Ben
This is the first study of the integration of Jewish immigrants, from eastern and central Europe, into Scotland and places Scottish Jewish history in context. The book looks at aspects of their immigration and integration into Scottish society, namely: the reaction of the native population and the...
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Jews in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War
£35.00
Last Voices
Sugarman, Martin
I would encourage anyone, of any religion (and indeed no religion) to read their stories of service and survival in some of the world's harshest seas.--Commander James Cohen QVRM RD VR RNR, formerly SO1 Maritime Trade Operations ***For those who served in the Merchant Navy in the World...
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Jews, Horns and the Devil
£25.00
An Illustrated History
Felton, Anton
Cartoons uniting visual representation with cultural associations, can cause devastation. One picture may save a thousand words but we will never know how many hundreds of thousands of lives were not saved, how many millions of lives were not even lived, because of the climate...
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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...
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Licoricia of Winchester
£22.50
Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community
Bartlet, Suzanne
Edited by: Skinner, Patricia
On a spring day in 1277, the prominent Jewish businesswoman Licoricia of Winchester was found by her daughter murdered, stabbed to death in her own house. Alongside Licoricia's body was that of her Christian maid, Alice. Why was...
