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  • Poland What Have I To Do With Thee ?

    Poland What Have I To Do With Thee ?

    £18.50

    Essays Without Prejudice

    Scharf, Rafael F


    208 pages

    Copyright: 12/16/1998

  • Politics by Other Means

    Politics by Other Means

    £25.00

    The Free German League of Culture in London, 1939-1946

    Brinson, Charmian; Dove, Richard; Müller-Härlin, Anna

    Politics by Other Means traces the development and historical significance of the Free German League of Culture, the foremost organization representing anti-Nazi German refugees in Britain during the years of the Second World War. During...

  • Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain

    Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain

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    Pendlebury, Alyson

    The book focuses on Britain during the First World War and the immediate post-war period, and examines the use of biblical imagery with regard to representations of the nation and its perceived enemies. The study is constructed around four rhetorical themes: 'crusade', 'conversion', 'crucifixion' and 'apocalypse', and traces these...

  • Rescue the Perishing

    Rescue the Perishing

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    Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees

    Cohen, Susan

    Rescue the Perishing is 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, the impoverished and the underrepresented in...

  • Rome's Wars in Parthia

    Rome's Wars in Parthia

    £19.95

    Blood in the Sand

    Sheldon, Rose Mary

    The leader of an empire invades Iraq. He has inadequate intelligence and underestimates the resistance of the locals, but he believes his overwhelming military strength will bring him a swift victory. His army overruns the area between the Tigris and the Euphrates, but as soon...

  • Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry 1800-2000

    Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry 1800-2000

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    Finestein, Israel

    This volume consists of articles by Israel Finestein written over a period of more than fifty years. He was throughout a close observer of the Jewish scene and latterly a prominent participant. These wide-ranging studies graphically present significant features of Jewish public life in Anglo-Jewry or bearing upon that...

  • Soldiers' Tales

    Soldiers' Tales

    £50.00

    Two Palestinian Jewish Soldiers in the Ottoman Army during the First World War

    Abramson, Glenda

    Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western Anatolia with the labor battalions during World War I. They kept detailed notes of their dreadful experiences...

  • Taming the Middle Eastern Elephant

    Taming the Middle Eastern Elephant

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    Confronting Antisemitism in the Arab–Israeli Conflict

    Stone, David H.

    David Stone’s masterful account exposes how the root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict lies in a continuing and virulent antisemitism cloaked in anti-Zionism. A depressing but essential message that deserves to be widely read,...

  • The Bloom’s Story, 1920–2010

    The Bloom’s Story, 1920–2010

    £19.95

    Noshtalgia
    Fox, Pam

    We who dined there will always remember our favourite dishes and perhaps even more so, those waiters who always had the last word about everything. But, at its heart are our roots. This is a remarkable tale which, significantly, is...

  • The Champagne Spy

    The Champagne Spy

    £17.95

    Israel’s Man in Egypt
    Lotz, Wolfgang 

    The true story of Wolfgang Lotz, nicknamed The Champagne Spy by his handler. His story bears a striking similarity to that of Eli Cohen, portrayed by Sasha Baron Cohen in Netflix’s The Spy.

    As a top...