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Finding Relly

£15.00

My Family, The Holocaust and Me
Schonfeld, Rosemary

Rosemary Schonfeld grew up as the daughter of a Czech immigrant in post-war UK and Canada, unaware of her father’s Jewish identity and of what really happened to his absent relatives. In adulthood she began to feel compelled to find out whether Relly,...

Frank's Way

£20.00

Frank Cass and Fifty Years of Publishing

Black, Gerry

This is a history of Frank Cass, the man, and Frank Cass, the company. The two are inextricably linked together, so it is inevitably a mixture of both a company history and a biography, set against the dramatically changing background of the publishing...

From Krakow to Berkeley: Coming out of Hiding

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An immigrant's search for identity and belonging

Rabkin, Anna

What happens to a child whose early life is marked by trauma and loss? Can a reviled other find the courage to speak out? Anna Rabkin's comfortable childhood in Krakow ended abruptly when her Jewish family fled both Communists and Nazis during World...

Great Philanthropists

£50.00

Wealth and Charity in the Modern World 1815-1945

Edited by: Cesarani, David; Mandler, Peter

What is a philanthropist? Why do they do what they do? What impact do they have? What makes them tick? What in their personal biographies, their communities, their backgrounds, and their moment in time drove them to devote...

Haham Moses Gaster

£40.00

Wayward Genius
Derek Taylor

A Zionist before Theodor Herzl, the only Ashkenazi Haham the Sephardim ever appointed, the only senior British Jewish spiritual figure to be dismissed, a world expert on the Samaritans, a collector of 2,000 manuscripts, a scholar with a 45,000 book library...

He Also Spoke as a Jew

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The Life of the Reverend James Parkes

Chertok, Haim

This exhaustive, full-scale biography of the twentieth century's most dedicated Gentile fighter against antisemitism is a key resource for those who would like to learn more of Parkes the man and his work in reconciling Christianity and Judaism. Virtually alone among Christians, James...

Helping With Inquiries

£18.95

An Autobiography

Jacobs, Louis

This autobiography of one of the world's leading Jewish religious thinkers and teachers, and the central participant in the dramatic 'Jacobs affair', begins with his early boyhood in a poor district of Manchester. The story covers his student life at Gateshead and London University, his trips...