Jewish History
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The Impact of Zionism and Israel on Anglo-Jewry's Identity, 1948-1982
$74.95
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
$79.50
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...
$69.95
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
$32.95
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
$75.00
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 culture dealt with ‘the Jew’ at...
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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 Jews of Lithuania
$29.95
A Journey Through the long Twentieth Century
Sayers, Nicholas
This book is the result of a personal quest to understand more about Nick’s family background in eastern Europe. It leads him to dig deeply into many of the big questions about modern Jewish history in Lithuania.
Why were lots of Jewish... -
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...
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The Lie that Will Not Die
$32.95
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Ben-Itto, Hadassa
With a new Introduction by Dave Rich
How encouraging to think that when people tell racist lies there are courts in which the slandered can prove that they're being slandered, and that judges can make the world a better place.
Tom Payne,...
