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Welcome to Vallentine Mitchell Publishers!
Vallentine Mitchell, founded over fifty years ago, are international publishers of books of Jewish interest, both for the scholar and general reader. Subjects published include Jewish history, culture and heritage, modern Jewish thought, biography and reference.
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|  | 250 Years of Convention and Contention
A History of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1760-2010
Langham, Raphael
In November 1760, the leaders of the Bevis Marks synagogue in London established a committee to consider how the synagogue should pay homage to King George III, who had just ascended the throne. This committee evolved into what we know today as the Board of Deputies, the representative body of Jews in Britain. This is the first comprehensive history of the Board of Deputies. The history of the Board is about disputes, controversies, factions, responding to crises, protecting Jewish religious observance, and providing the Jewish community with direction and leadership. Author Raphael Langham covers issues such as emancipation, Sunday trading, marriage and divorce laws, combating anti-semitism and fascism, pogroms in Russia, the rise of Zionism, the Holocaust, and Israel. The book concludes by looking back over the last 250 years, thus enabling the reader to answer the question 'Has the Board been good for the Jews?' The book will appeal to the general reader, as well as those interested in Jewish history.
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|  | Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory
Cesarani, David; Kushner, Tony; Shain, Milton
A finalist in the Anthologies and Collections category of the 2009 National Jewish Book Awards
The twelve essays in this fascinating collection range broadly over time, covering the period from early modern era to the early twenty first century. Their geographical scope is also impressive, including Europe, north and south America, Australia, north and South Africa and the far east. What unites these essays is the interrogation of place and (displacement) in the Jewish experience and in the construction of Jewish identities. These studies are given further complexity and unity of purpose by studying the relationship of history and memory in negotiating Jewish identities in relation to time and place. A rich volume bringing together established academics and younger scholars.
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|  | Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest
Myth, History and Holocaust
Levine, Paul
Paul Levine presents here for the first time the true history of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the most-famous heroes of the Holocaust. It is the first scholarly study of Wallenberg and Swedish diplomacy in Budapest during the Holocaust which both utilizes and contextualizes those Swedish diplomatic documents which best describe his historic mission. Analysing Wallenberg's own correspondence and reports, it provides a new insight into his motives and background. The study explores and deconstructs the many myths which have enveloped his morally important and heroic story. Together, the two strands of the study explain what Wallenberg did to assist and save many thousands of Jews in Budapest.
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|  | Rescue the Perishing
Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees
Cohen, Susan
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 in British society, her activism shifted towards Britain's imperial colonies and Europe, before focusing on refugees, most of them Jewish, fleeing persecution in Nazi occupied Europe before and during the Second World War. Cohen highlights the challenges that Rathbone faced, especially from within government. The difficulties that she encountered in attempting to persuade the British government to act honourably towards refugees is an abiding theme throughout this book.
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|  | Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970
Their Image in AJR Information
Grenville, Anthony
No previous historical study of this group of immigrants exists, though they form one of the most high-profile groups of refugees to have come to Britain in the twentieth century, both as survivors of the Nazi terror and as high-achieving contributors to British society. Grenville covers new ground by drawing on a rich source of contemporary material - the previously untapped monthly journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees, AJR Information, the only contemporary source that provides material for a full-scale history of these refugees: when they established themselves permanently in Britain, how they adapted to British society and developed their distinctive identity and culture.
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|  | A Holocaust Crossroads
Jewish Women and Children in Ravensbruck
Dublon-Knebel, Irith
Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp built for women. Its history constitutes a crossroads in the various stages of the Third Reich's persecution of women accused of offending the Nazi state and of those ethnically and racially persecuted. Against the overall background of the Nazi concentration camps and Holocaust historiography, this collection of essays provides a socio-historical in-depth analysis of the singularity of the female Jewish experience by focusing on the Jewish experience in the microcosm of Ravensbruck.
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|  | The Arab Cocoon
Progress and Modernity in Arab Societies
Heggy, Tarek
Heggy explores the reasons behind the widespread refusal of Arabic-speaking societies to join in the march towards modernity and progress. He suggests that the systematic rejection of modernity and progress is the direct cause for the confrontation between most of the Arabic-speaking peoples and the West. It ensures that Arab culture, people, and their mentality are unable to integrate in the march of civilization. Very little has been written in depth on the Arab culture and mind. Writing in an informative and accessible style, Tarek Heggy offers the depth needed to understand and deal with this expanding antimodernity culture, and consequently reduce clashes between the Arab and Western worlds.
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|  | Polish Witnesses to the Shoah
Turski, Marian
The people who were born before or during the war and who found themselves on one side or the other of the ghetto wall are the last witnesses to the history of the Jews there. Turski has included 82 memories of the period - the dilemmas, emotions and doubts about their attitudes and the behaviour of loved ones are finally revealed. Various themes are examined in this book: the guilt felt by those who were unable to help, the cruelty of some Germans and Polish people, the suffering of the children, the apparent lack of resistance put up by the Jewish victims; the courage shown by a few.
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|  | Solomon Schonfeld
A Purpose in Life
Taylor, Derek
For nearly fifty years, Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld was a controversial figure in British Jewry, after he took over the fledgling Charedi Union of Hebrew Congregations 1933. The charismatic rabbi built up the foundations of the organization until it was equal to the other traditional Jewish power bases. He also saved many thousands of lives organizing the immigration of refugees from the Continent before and after the war. He transformed the attitude of the Jewish community in Britain towards Jewish education. These massive achievements were only attained by overcoming an enormous amount of opposition from the Jewish establishment, and persuading successive governments to bend the rules.
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|  | Licoricia of Winchester
Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community
Bartlet, Suzanne ; Skinner, Patricia
In 1277, the prominent Jewish businesswoman Licoricia of Winchester was found by her daughter stabbed to death. Why was Licoricia killed? Bartlet draws on extensive research to examine the family history behind the famous murder. This is the story of Licoricia's route to wealth through advantageous marriages and business acumen, the business contacts she made, the close relationship she appears to have had with King Henry III, and the more mixed fortunes of her sons. By using Licoricia's family as an example, Bartlet demonstrates the gradual deterioration in the conditions of even the wealthiest Jews in England in the run up to the Expulsion of 1290.
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|  | Rome's Wars in Parthia
Blood in the Sand
Sheldon, Rose Mary
Ancient and modern attempts to invade Iraq have been plagued with the same problems. These problems have been caused by lack of adequate intelligence gathering and have resulted in long drawn out wars, costly in both money and manpower. Ultimately, they led to little political or military gain. Could more have been accomplished through diplomacy rather than brute force? Sheldon details Rome's military encounters with Parthia. Time after time the Romans stormed into the area between the Tigris and Euphrates thinking 'shock and awe' was all they needed to prevail. What they discovered was that it takes more than just overrunning an empire to defeat it.
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|  | Jewish Refugees in Switzerland during the Holocaust
A Memoir of Childhood and History
Forman, Frieda Johles
This is the first English-language memoir of the Jewish refugee experience in wartime Switzerland focusing on children's experiences and daily life in the refugee camps. Forman explores the response of the Swiss Jewish community, and interviews some of the men and women who dealt with the refugees. Research in the archives of the Swiss government, as well as of Jewish organizations, uncovers a treasure trove of information. Original French, German, and Yiddish documents are translated into English for the first time to reveal the heated public debates about Switzerland's refugee policy and about the treatment of Jewish refugees.
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|  | Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka
The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor
Schultz, Deborah; Timms, Edward
Daghani's understated narrative of his experiences in the slave labour camp at Mikhailowka provides a day-by-day account of the chilling experiences of Jewish slave labourers. It is written in a compelling style and illustrated by watercolours and drawings that Daghani made secretly in captivity and smuggled out of the camp and a Romanian ghetto. The uniqueness of Daghani's Holocaust testimony lies in his role as an artist which led to his (and his wife's) escape from the camp and their survival. The diary is both art and document, addressing how we understand and construct history.
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|  | The Survivors
The Story of the Belsen Remnant
Goodman, Cecily; Hardman, Leslie
Leslie H. Hardman, a Jewish chaplain, entered Belsen camp two days after its liberation by the British Army. This book tells the story of what he found there, and what he did. In the beginning he feels he is making no inroads into the task he has set himself. But with courage and patience he brings faith, comfort and help to the stricken survivors. He himself is enmeshed in the life of liberated Belsen, experiencing hope, despair, intolerance, inspiration. This book is an authentic record, written with compassionate understanding.
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|  | The Frankfurt Judengasse
Jewish Life in an Early Modern German City
Schlüter, Margarete ; Backhaus, Fritz; Engel, Gisela; Liberles, Robert
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, the Frankfurt Judengasse, the first legally constructed ghetto in the Holy Roman Empire, and one of the first in Europe. The authors cover a wide spectrum of themes on a great variety of aspects of Jewish life in the Frankfurt Judengasse, spanning a broad chronological arc from the Middle Ages to the dissolution of the Frankfurt Judengasse in the early years of the 19th century.
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|  | Through the Eyes of the Mufti
The Essays of Haj Amin, Translated and Annotated
Elpeleg, Zvi
Mufti Haj Amin al-Husayni had no chance of prevailing against the well-organized Zionist movement. So he sought to enlist the help of the Arab and Muslim world in favor of the Palestinians. Appealing to the Arab world, he claimed that Zionists intended to use Israel as a base from which to conquer all Arab countries; appealing to the Muslim world, he said that the Jews wished to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque and build their temple on its ruins. The book presents the Mufti's essays - the literal source of those myths, as well as notes and essays which reply to the ideas presented by Haj Amin.
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|  | The Jewish Year Book 2010
Levy, Elkan; Taylor, Derek
What do you want to know about the Jewish community in Britain? For 115 years the answers have been found in The Jewish Year Book: institutions, organizations, charities with their contact details, and a who's who of the personalities. Also provided are: the dates that matter in the Jewish calendar, the award winners, the anniversaries, and the obituaries, along with an overview of the position of Jews in countries outside Britain, what is happening in Israel, and the times in 2010 for festivals and Sabbaths all over the country, along with a 30 year Jewish calendar. Meticulous in its research and widespread in its coverage.
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