Jewish History
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Poland What Have I To Do With Thee ?
$29.50
Essays Without Prejudice
Scharf, Rafael F
208 pages
Copyright: 12/16/1998
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Politics by Other Means
$37.95
The Free German League of Culture in London, 1939-1946
Brinson, Charmian; Dove, Richard; Müller-Härlin, Anna
Politics by Other Means traces the development and historical significance of the Free German League of Culture, the foremost organization representing anti-Nazi German refugees in Britain during the years of the Second World War. During...
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Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain
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Pendlebury, Alyson
The book focuses on Britain during the First World War and the immediate post-war period, and examines the use of biblical imagery with regard to representations of the nation and its perceived enemies. The study is constructed around four rhetorical themes: 'crusade', 'conversion', 'crucifixion' and 'apocalypse', and traces these...
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Rescue the Perishing
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Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees
Cohen, Susan
Rescue the Perishing is the first study to date of Eleanor Rathbone's commitment to the 'refugee question' from 1933 until her death in 1946. It explains how, from a working life devoted to championing the cause of the disadvantaged, the impoverished and the underrepresented in...
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Rome's Wars in Parthia
$34.95
Blood in the Sand
Sheldon, Rose Mary
The leader of an empire invades Iraq. He has inadequate intelligence and underestimates the resistance of the locals, but he believes his overwhelming military strength will bring him a swift victory. His army overruns the area between the Tigris and the Euphrates, but as soon...
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Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry 1800-2000
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Finestein, Israel
This volume consists of articles by Israel Finestein written over a period of more than fifty years. He was throughout a close observer of the Jewish scene and latterly a prominent participant. These wide-ranging studies graphically present significant features of Jewish public life in Anglo-Jewry or bearing upon that...
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Soldiers' Tales
$84.95
Two Palestinian Jewish Soldiers in the Ottoman Army during the First World War
Abramson, Glenda
Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western Anatolia with the labor battalions during World War I. They kept detailed notes of their dreadful experiences...
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The Champagne Spy
$26.95
Israel’s Man in Egypt
Lotz, WolfgangThe true story of Wolfgang Lotz, nicknamed The Champagne Spy by his handler. His story bears a striking similarity to that of Eli Cohen, portrayed by Sasha Baron Cohen in Netflix’s The Spy.
As a top Israeli agent operating in Egypt, Wolfgang Lotz lived... -
The Clothes on our Backs
$37.95
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 Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain 1938–1975
$69.95
Lifeline to Freedom
Brinson, Charmian and Buresova, Jana BarboraThis book documents the vital role of the British-based Czech Refugee Trust Fund (CRTF) and its predecessor, the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (BCRC). It provides much needed insight into the now almost forgotten political debates, controversies, and difficulties that impacted...
