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A Fairy Tale Unmasked
£18.95
The Teacher and the Nazi Slaves
Vaupel, Dieter with Stone, D.Z.A Fairy Tale Unmasked is two books in one, each building on the other. Part I is the effort of a German High School teacher and his indefatigable students to uncover the true history of their town, once the site...
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Baffy
£25.00
The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale, 1936–1947
Norman Rose (Ed)Granddaughter of a duke and niece of a prime minister, Blanche ‘Baffy’ Dugdale was in an ideal position to observe British political and social life, before, during and immediately after the Second World War. She...
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Bouncing Back – and Forward
£35.00
From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship
Reif, Stefan C.Awarded an OBE in the 2020 October Queen’s Honours List
Alternately gritty, funny, and deeply touching, but always honest and insightful, this is a revealing account of a life, with yet more to give, dedicated triumphantly to the highest standards of scholarly...
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Bouncing Back – and Forward
£18.95
From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship
Reif, Stefan C.Awarded an OBE in the 2020 October Queen’s Honours List
Alternately gritty, funny, and deeply touching, but always honest and insightful, this is a revealing account of a life, with yet more to give, dedicated triumphantly to the highest standards of scholarly...
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Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler
£19.95
The Forgotten Founder
Taylor, Derek
New in paperback 16th October 2020
Derek Taylor has written a comprehensive and highly readable biography which will restore Adler to his true place in history.--Elkan D Levy ***Nathan Marcus Adler remains the longest serving Chief Rabbi in the history of Anglo-Jewry. Yet...
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East End Jews and Left-Wing Theatre
from £25.00
Alfie Bass, David Kossoff, Warren Mitchell and Lionel Bart
Seddon, Isabelle
This is a wonderful book that places these Jewish artists in a historical-cultural context. This is not only a British story, but a much wider Jewish one for which Isabelle Seddon provides many interesting insights.
Colin Shindler, The Jerusalem Post
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Family Albums
£25.00
Ostrava and its Jews Volume 2
Lawson, David and Salomonovičová, LibušeIn Volume I, Ostrava and its Jews, the authors present the story of the Ostrava Jewish Community from its beginning in the eighteenth century, through the Holocaust to the present. After the murder of almost all the Jewish population,...
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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 -
Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War
£25.00
Edited by: Jordan, James; Lanicek, Jan
New in paperback 19th November 2020
Highly recommended
M Swartz, University of Massachusetts at Amhurst, ChoiceA remarkable testimonial to the European state of mind when confronting the destruction of European Jewry.
Alexander J. Groth, University of California, Davis
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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...
