Biographies

  • Echoes of a Lost Voice

    Echoes of a Lost Voice

    from £20.00

    Encounters with Primo Levi

    Calcagno, Giorgio; Poli, Gabriella

    Edited by: Angier, Carole

    New in paperback April 2020

    Primo Levi - chemist, Italian, Jew, survivor of Auschwitz - was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, If This Is a Man, is still one of...

  • 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...

  • Exodus Too

    Exodus Too

    £18.99

    The Story of an Ordinary Egyptian Jewish Family in Extraordinary Times

    Tamman, Gabriel

    [T]he time may soon be coming when the events that have taken place in the region will have to be considered as part of the great exchanges of population that have...

  • Finding Relly

    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

    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

    From Krakow to Berkeley: Coming out of Hiding

    from £18.95

    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...

  • 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...

  • He Also Spoke as a Jew

    He Also Spoke as a Jew

    from £19.95

    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...