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Captured Shadows

£22.00

The German Goldschmidts of the 17th and 18th Century

Nick, Dagmar

Dagmar Nick, a multiple literary prize-winner in her native Germany, has turned her considerable talents to researching her fascinating Jewish ancestry. She brings to life her family history through the letters, diaries and documents that they left behind, and...

Divided We Stand

£40.00

A Journey with Judge Israel Finestein QC

Lang, Colin

The late Israel Finestein was an outstanding lawyer, historian and lay leader of the British Jewish community. This book of essays by his nephew, Colin Lang, in part an evocation, in part a continuation of his teachings, is a fitting tribute to a...

How to Love a Child Volume 1

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And Other Selected Works  Volume 1

Janusz Korczak

How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal articles, as well as private texts.

Volume 1 comprises three pedagogical works, the first being...

How to Love a Child Volume 2

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And Other Selected Works  Volume 2
Korczak, Janusz 

How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal articles, as well as private texts. Volume 2 starts with extensive excerpts from two pedagogical...

Jews in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War

£35.00

Last Voices

Sugarman, Martin

I would encourage anyone, of any religion (and indeed no religion) to read their stories of service and survival in some of the world's harshest seas.--Commander James Cohen QVRM RD VR RNR, formerly SO1 Maritime Trade Operations ***For those who served in the Merchant Navy in the World...

Jews, Horns and the Devil

£25.00

An Illustrated History

Felton, Anton

Cartoons uniting visual representation with cultural associations, can cause devastation. One picture may save a thousand words but we will never know how many hundreds of thousands of lives were not saved, how many millions of lives were not even lived, because of the climate...

King of Children

£20.00

The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

Lifton, Betty

This is the tragic story of Janusz Korczak (as featured in the major motion picture The Zookeeper's Wife) who chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the Jewish orphans in his care. Korczak comes alive in this acclaimed biography by Betty Jean...

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...