Biographies
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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...
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Finding Relly
£15.00
My Family, The Holocaust and Me
Schonfeld, RosemaryRosemary 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,...
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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...
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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...
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Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family
£29.95
Between Two Worlds
Elaine ThorntonThornton 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
£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...
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Haham Moses Gaster
£40.00
Wayward Genius
Derek TaylorA 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...
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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...
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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...
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Hermann Adler
£40.00
The King's Chief Rabbi
Taylor, Derek
With a foreword by Lord Jacob Rothschild, OMHermann 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...