Jewish History

  • 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...

  • Noblesse Oblige

    Noblesse Oblige

    £30.00

    Essays in Honour of David Kessler Obe

    Edited by: Alan Crown,

    Copyright: 8/20/1998

  • Novogrudok

    Novogrudok

    £19.50

    The History of a Shtetl

    Edited by: Kagan, Jack

    'This book is a moving testimony to a world that no longer exists. It recreates the richness of life in a Jewish shtetl before the German invasion without sentimentality. It documents the savage destruction of this Jewish world with the aid of documents,...

  • 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...

  • Operation Messiah

    Operation Messiah

    £19.95

    St Paul, Roman Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity

    Sheldon, Rose Mary; Voskuilen, Thijs

    Saul of Tarsus is one of the best known and most beloved figures of Christianity. This man, later known as St. Paul, set the tone for Christianity, including an emphasis on celibacy, the theory of divine grace and...

  • Opportunities that Pass

    Opportunities that Pass

    £18.00

    An Historical Miscellany

    Roth, Cecil

    Edited by: Finestein, Israel; Roth, Joseph

    Cecil Roth was the first Anglo-Jewish historian to become a household name. In addition to his numerous books Roth wrote many articles for a wide range of journals in Britain and overseas, notably in America, on Jewish life and history. This volume...

  • ORT, the Second World War and the Rehabilitation of Holocaust Survivors

    ORT, the Second World War and the Rehabilitation of Holocaust Survivors

    £16.95

    Kavanaugh, Sarah

    For millions of people across Europe, 1945 brought an end to six years of war but not an end to their struggle to survive. For no-one was this more true than the thousands of Jewish refugees who had miraculously evaded...

  • Orthodox Judaism in Britain since 1913

    Orthodox Judaism in Britain since 1913

    £19.95

    An Ideology Forsaken

    Freud-Kandel, Miri

    In 1991, just as Jonathan Sacks was acceding to the post of Chief Rabbi, the United Synagogue, the largest synagogal institution in British Jewry, commissioned a report entitled A Time for Change. This report identified the significant difficulties in which many of the Orthodox institutions of British...

  • Ostrava and its Jews

    Ostrava and its Jews

    £23.00

    'Now No-One Sings You Lullabies'

    Lawson, David; Salomonovicova, Libuse; Sustkova, Hana

    The story of Ostrava and its Jews encapsulates in a small space (85 square miles) and a short time (ca. 150 years) a miniaturized history of Central Europe. It covers industrialization and massive economic growth, immigration and emigration, intolerance and tolerance,...

  • 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...