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  • Chapters of Accidents

    Chapters of Accidents

    £16.95

    A Writer’s Memoir
    Baron, Alexander 
    Colin Holmes and Nick Baron (Eds)

    Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period.
    John Williams, The Guardian

    ‘We have...

  • Escape from Benghazi

    Escape from Benghazi

    £18.95

    Diary of an Imposter
    Meghnagi, Elia 

    Meghnagi takes us on a cultural and political tour of Benghazi and its Jewish community in the twentieth century under Italian, British and Arab regimes. In doing so he reveals with a masterful and at times funny...

  • Helping With Inquiries

    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...

  • Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated

    Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated

    £25.00

    Last Voices
    Sugarman, Martin

    Here for the first time is the account of the essential part played by Jewish personnel in the Fire Service in the Second World War.  

    Ever civic minded, Jews from all social backgrounds were pre-war volunteers to be trained for...

  • Levi Eshkol

    Levi Eshkol

    £25.00

    From Pioneering Operator to Tragic Hero - A Doer

    Aronson, Shlomo

    Including research from newly opened domestic and foreign archives, this book provides an original description and analysis of a crucial period in Israel's history and the history of the Middle East through the lens of the charming, lesser known,...

  • Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish

    Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish

    £16.95

    My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath
    Chamberlain, Maria

    With a scientific mind and a profound personal dedication, Maria Chamberlain takes her reader on a journey into the family history. The book combines research and reflection, history and memory, and provides rare insights into...

  • Ten Chief Rabbis

    Ten Chief Rabbis

    £39.99

    Their Lives Illustrated with Artefacts from the Private Collection of Professor David Latchman
    The United Synagogue

    This unique insight into the lives of the previous Chief Rabbis, both scholarly yet accessible, has been made possible through the writing and, even more so,...

  • This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light

    This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light

    £18.95

    Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and her Palestine Experience
    Grigsby, Randy

    Randy Grigsby has a knack for making history come to life in his books.
    Tom Arceneaux, Attorney, Associate Hadassah Lifetime Member, AIPAC Activist

    It is history shared with the gift of accuracy and compassion; a reminder...