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  • Defenders of the Faith

    Defenders of the Faith

    $59.95

    The History of Jews' College and the London School of Jewish Studies

    Taylor, Derek

    Although Jews were readmitted to England in 1661, nearly 200 years later there was an election for Chief Rabbi where the short list of candidates were all German. Today the community takes its British spiritual leadership for granted,...

  • Defying Death in Auschwitz

    Defying Death in Auschwitz

    $35.00

    The Written Testimonies of Prisoner-Doctors
    Romney, Claude 

    Dr Jacques Lewin, the author’s father and a medical researcher at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, was deported to Auschwitz on 27 March 1942 in the first convoy from Western Europe. He survived almost three years in Auschwitz and later Ebensee, but only rarely...

  • Did You Ever Meet Hitler, Miss?

    Did You Ever Meet Hitler, Miss?

    $14.45

    A Holocaust Survivor Talks to Young People

    Levi, Trude

    Teaching the Holocaust is a difficult and sensitive task. The facts and figures are readily available but it is the individual experiences that engage and interest pupils and allow them to understand the full implications of the Holocaust. Consequently, this book by Trude...

  • Disraelis Jewishness

    Disraelis Jewishness

    from $34.95

    Edited by: Endelman, Todd; Kushner, Tony

    The subject of Disraeli's jewishness was one that obsessed contemporaries but was subsequently downplayed by historians and others until very recently. The essays in this volume provide a new perspective, stressing the importance of Disraeli's Jewishness in the construction of his personality, ideology and politics...

  • Divided We Stand

    Divided We Stand

    $55.00

    A Journey with Judge Israel Finestein QC

    Lang, Colin

    The late Israel Finestein was an outstanding lawyer, historian and lay leader of the British Jewish community. This book of essays by his nephew, Colin Lang, in part an evocation, in part a continuation of his teachings, is a fitting tribute...

  • Divine Pathos and Human Being

    Divine Pathos and Human Being

    from $29.95

    The Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel

    Chester, Michael A.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Jewish refugee from Nazism, became a significant theologian and social activist in the USA, though relatively unknown in the UK. The first part of this book contains a brief biography, which puts his work into context, personally, culturally and...

  • Don Pacifico

    Don Pacifico

    from $30.00

    The Acceptable Face of Gunboat Diplomacy

    Taylor, Derek

    The house of Don Pacifico, president of the Jewish community in Athens, was looted by a mob in April 1847. The riot was government-inspired and the courts were crooked. There was little chance of getting the large compensation Pacifico claimed - until Palmerston, the...

  • Double Jeopardy

    Double Jeopardy

    $32.95

    Gender and the Holocaust

    Baumel, Judith

    This volume contains a collection of essays examining the Holocaust from the perspective of gender. The book is divided into seven sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the discourse between gender and identity. Following a historical introduction delineating the basic framework for understanding women's...

  • Dr. Dieter Vaupel awarded Order of Merit of the Federal Republic for Ger...

    $0.00

    Award recognizes German educator’s research and reconciliation efforts regarding Jews sent

    into slave labor and Jewish communities destroyed...

  • East End Jews and Left-Wing Theatre

    East End Jews and Left-Wing Theatre

    from $37.95

    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

    This...