Jewish History

  • Jewish Letchworth

    Jewish Letchworth

    $29.95

    A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience
    Fachler, Yanky

    Few people are aware of the intellectually diverse and remarkably innovative Jewish community of Letchworth which existed from the 1930s until the 1970s. Yanky Fachler has reclaimed the history of this talented group of people...

  • Jewish Life in Cracow 1918-1939

    Jewish Life in Cracow 1918-1939

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    Martin, Sean

    Re-evaluates the way Jews lived among Poles without abandoning their Jewish heritage. By focusing on the history of the Jewish press, schools and other cultural institutions, the book examines how Jews in the same community created varying ethnic and national identities in order to cope with the demands of...

  • Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War

    Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War

    $25.00

    Last Voices

    Sugarman, Martin

    Here, for the first time, is the account of the essential part played by Jewish personnel in Britain's Fire Service during World War II. Ever civic minded, British Jews from all social backgrounds were pre-war volunteers to be trained for dealing with the expected mass bombing of cities...

  • Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated

    Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated

    $39.95

    Last Voices
    Sugarman, Martin

    Here for the first time is the account of the essential part played by Jewish personnel in the Fire Service in the Second World War.  

    Ever civic minded, Jews from all social backgrounds were pre-war volunteers to be trained for dealing with the expected...

  • Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970

    Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970

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    Their Image in AJR Information

    Grenville, Anthony

    Between 1933 and the outbreak of war in 1939, over 60,000 Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia fled to Britain, and some 50,000 settled there. No previous historical study of this group of immigrants exists, though they form one of the most high-profile groups...

  • Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece

    Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece

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    Bowman, Steven

    This is the first systematic study of the Jews in the Greek resistance based on archival research and personal interviews. It covers Jews in various aspects of resistance in Greece and other concentration camps. The book is a contribution to the overall story of Greek resistance against the Nazi...

  • Jewish Society in Victorian England

    Jewish Society in Victorian England

    $42.50

    Copyright: 3/1/1993

  • Jewish Symbols and Secrets

    Jewish Symbols and Secrets

    $74.95

    A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Carpet

    Felton, Anton

    In the hundred years that led up to expulsion in 1492, hundreds of thousands of Spanish Jews converted publically - but not privately - to Christianity. They left some clues to their compelling and dangerous secret lives, revealed through personal artifacts. This book examines one such...

  • Jews in Glasgow 1879-1939

    Jews in Glasgow 1879-1939

    $29.95

    Immigration and Integration

    Braber, Ben

    This is the first study of the integration of Jewish immigrants, from eastern and central Europe, into Scotland and places Scottish Jewish history in context. The book looks at aspects of their immigration and integration into Scottish society, namely: the reaction of the native population and the...

  • Jews in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War

    Jews in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War

    $59.95

    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...