Jewish History
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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...
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The Frankfurt Judengasse
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Jewish Life in an Early Modern German City
Edited by: Backhaus, Fritz; Engel, Gisela; Liberles, Robert; Schlüter, Margarete
Frankfurt was one of the most important centers of Jewish life in central Europe. In 1462, the Frankfurt City Council ordered the resettlement of the Jews in an especially constructed street, surrounded by walls...
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The Impact of Zionism and Israel on Anglo-Jewry's Identity, 1948-1982
£50.00
Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut
Omer-Jackaman, Jack
'Thanks to the might of Israel, even Diaspora Jews can hold their heads up high'; so remarks Tomer in Amos Oz's 1966 novel Elsewhere, Perhaps. This quotation speaks to the profound impact which Zionism's successful campaign for Jewish statehood had on the...
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The Jewish Community of Salonika
£20.00
History, Memory, Identity
Lewkowicz, Bea
This book is a pioneering study of the often forgotten Sephardi voices of the Holocaust. It is an account of the Sephardi Jewish community of the Greek city of Salonika, which at one point numbered 80,000 members, but which was almost completely annihilated during the German occupation...
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The Jewish Factor in the Relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet U...
£45.00
1933-1941
Govrin, Yosef
Nazi Germany's foreign policy towards the Soviet Union was carried out in accordance with ideological and political objectives. These were defined and planned well in advance, with a view to a final confrontation for the domination of Europe. This policy regarded 'Jewish Bolshevism' as the main obstacle to securing...
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The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914
£18.95
This is an analysis and description of that section of the great Jewish migration from eastern Europe which settled in Britain - around 120,000 Jews. The routes to England and the immigrants' travel experiences are discussed and the dockside reception is presented, which leads to a consideration of the...
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The Jews of England and The Revolutionary Era
£50.00
1789 – 1815
Jeremy SmilgThis is a wonderful and accessible book written with energy and enthusiasm incorporating political, social, cultural and religious history. It is the first to explore the responses of English Jewry to the French Revolution and how British politics and...
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The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915
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Between Tradition and Transformation
Schächter, Elizabeth
In this book, author Elizabeth Schachter challenges the widely held view that Jewish integration in Italy - from the second emancipation (1848) to the First World War - was an unqualified success, and thus an anomaly in European Jewish history. She draws on contemporary Jewish journals,...
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The Jews of Lemberg
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A Journey to Empty Places
Driebergen, Michiel; Zorgdrager, Heleen
A hundred years ago Lemberg (also known as Lviv and Lwow) was part of the Habsburg Empire and famed for its splendour and rich cultural life. Until the German occupation in 1941, a Jewish community of over 100,000 people lived in Lwow. When...
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The King's Own Loyal Enemy Aliens
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German and Austrian Refugees in Britain's Armed Forces, 1939-45
Leighton-Langer, Peter
During the Second World War, 10,000 Germans and Austrians volunteered to join the British Forces from the UK. Most were refugees, but there were others also. From 1939 until 1943 most served in the 18 so-called Alien Companies of the Pioneer...
