Jewish History
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Jewish Chaplaincy in the British Armed Forces
£25.00
Captains of the Souls of Men 1892-2021
Lewis, JonathanThis is a ground-breaking book, exhaustively researched, throwing light on interesting facets of Jewish life in Britain as well as Jewish chaplaincy, and touched in places by moving experiences. For those interested in the work of Army chaplains, it is essential...
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Jewish Germany
from £20.00
An Enduring Presence from the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century
Levinson, David
In Jewish Germany, cultural anthropologist David Levinson draws out and explores for us the expanse of the Jewish experience in Germany from the fourth century CE to the present. With the extensive use of primary sources, among others, the carefully...
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Jewish Letchworth
£17.95
A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience
Fachler, YankyFew people are aware of the intellectually diverse and remarkably innovative Jewish community of Letchworth which existed from the 1930s until the 1970s. Yanky Fachler has reclaimed the history of this talented group of people in Letchworth who inspired so many...
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Jewish Life in Cracow 1918-1939
£18.95
Martin, Sean
Re-evaluates the way Jews lived among Poles without abandoning their Jewish heritage. By focusing on the history of the Jewish press, schools and other cultural institutions, the book examines how Jews in the same community created varying ethnic and national identities in order to cope with the demands of...
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Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War
£35.00
Last Voices
Sugarman, Martin
Here, for the first time, is the account of the essential part played by Jewish personnel in Britain's Fire Service during World War II. Ever civic minded, British Jews from all social backgrounds were pre-war volunteers to be trained for dealing with the expected mass bombing of cities...
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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.
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Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970
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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...
