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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

£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

£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

£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

£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

£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,...

Out of the Ghetto

£13.95

Klajman, Jack

Out of the Ghetto is the compelling, true story of Jack Klajman's childhood. Jack was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1931, as the fourth of five children, to poor, working-class Jewish parents. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the apartment building Jack lived in was bombed, sending his family...

Palestinians between Nationalism and Islam

£19.95

Israeli, Raphael

This collection of mostly already-published articles illustrates the tension over the years between nascent Palestinian nationalism as articulated by the PLO and Islam as incorporated by Hamas. The latter's victory in the 2006 elections makes the matter all the more pertinent. Contents include: Introduction: Palestinian Affairs in World Perspective...