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  • Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family

    Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family

    £29.95

    Between Two Worlds
    Elaine Thornton

    Thornton provides a pithy family biography of the well-known Berlin Beer family that illuminates the paradoxical situation between enlightenment and antisemitism that Jews faced in the German territories in the 19th century.
    Dr Susanne Korbel, University of Gratz

  • Great Philanthropists

    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

    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...

  • Hebrew Women Join the Forces

    Hebrew Women Join the Forces

    £22.00

    Jewish Women from Palestine in the British Forces During the Second World War

    Granit-Hacohen, Anat

    During WWII, some 3,600 Jewish women from Palestine volunteered to serve in the British armed forces in the Middle East. For the first time ever Jewish women joined the army, wore uniform, left home to defend their...

  • Hermann Adler

    Hermann Adler

    £40.00

    The King's Chief Rabbi
    Taylor, Derek 
    With a foreword by Lord Jacob Rothschild, OM

    Hermann Adler contributed enormously as Chief Rabbi to the Jewish community in the UK and beyond.
    From the Foreword by Lord Jacob Rothschild, OM

    When Chief Rabbi Adler died in 1911, his friend, Sir Adolph Tuck wrote: ‘The fame of...

  • How to Love a Child Volume 1

    How to Love a Child Volume 1

    from £20.00

    And Other Selected Works  Volume 1

    Janusz Korczak

    How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal articles, as well as private texts.

    Volume 1 comprises three pedagogical works, the first being...

  • How to Love a Child Volume 2

    How to Love a Child Volume 2

    from £20.00

    And Other Selected Works  Volume 2
    Korczak, Janusz 

    How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal articles, as well as private texts. Volume 2 starts with extensive excerpts from two pedagogical...

  • Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture 1789-1914

    Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture 1789-1914

    £19.95

    Edited by: Cheyette, Bryan; Valman, Nadia

    This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in...

  • In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece

    In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece

    £22.95

    From Ancient Times to the Present Day
    Karababas, Anastasios

    Some praise for the Greek edition:
    A very engaging book about a unique aspect of Greece’s history.
    Topontiki

    This work offers for the first time a complete and comprehensive overview of the history of the Jews of Greece.
    Capital

    Greek Jewry has a unique history...

  • Intelligence Co-operation between Poland and Great Britain during World War II

    Intelligence Co-operation between Poland and Great Britain during World ...

    £55.00

    The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee Volume 1

    Edited by: Dubicki, Tadeusz; Nalecz, Daria; Stirling, Tessa

    The Anglo-Polish Historical Committee was established in 2000 with the full support of the Prime Ministers of both countries. The committee, made up of historians and official experts from both countries, was set up to...