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  • The Clothes on our Backs

    The Clothes on our Backs

    £25.00

    How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade

    Nyburg, Anna

    Jews had long been active in the clothing trade in Europe, developing new production and retail methods and excelling as designers. However, in the UK clothes production was mostly conservative and design was not a concept. What happened to...

  • The Shapiro Family, Jewish Creativity and Courage in Russia and Eastern Europe

    The Shapiro Family, Jewish Creativity and Courage in Russia and Eastern ...

    £15.95

    Bayvel, Rachel

    The Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, once said that the Shapiro family is one of three families, most ancient and distinguished in their ancestry. In this collection of studies, Rachel Bayvel covers over 1,000 years of some of the more dramatic...

  • Zev’s Children

    Zev’s Children

    £17.95

    An International Jewish Family

    Collins, Kenneth 

    This is the history of one family but it is also, in microcosm, the story of the Jewish people over the past two centuries. Kenneth Collins, the premier chronicler of Scottish Jewry ... encounters Communists and Zionists,...