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Jewish Organizations' Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy
$35.00
Weingarten, Aviva
In February 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy launched an anti-communist that lasted for more than four years. His attempts to unmask communists in the American administration and governmental agencies gave rise to actions that infringed on democratic procedure and civil liberties. As the Cold War grew, fear of communism at...
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Jewish Parliamentarians
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Janner, Lord Greville; Taylor, Derek
July 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Oath Act which enabled Jews to become members of parliament without taking the Oath of Allegiance on the true faith of a Christian. Lionel de Rothschild was the first to be allowed to swear on...
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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...
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Jewish Participation in the Fire Service in the Second World War - Updated
$39.95
Last Voices
Sugarman, MartinHere 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 Preaching
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Homilies and Sermons
Jacobs, Louis
Rabbi Jacobs, with sixty years' experience of pulpit work to his credit, provides a number of homilies for each weekly portion of the modern sermon and for the chapters of Ethics of the Fathers. The text for the modern sermon is usually the sidra, the weekly portion,...
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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...
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Jewish Refugees in Switzerland during the Holocaust
$26.50
A Memoir of Childhood and History
Forman, Frieda Johles
This is the first English-language memoir of the Jewish refugee experience in wartime Switzerland focusing on children's experiences and daily life in the refugee camps. The author integrates her memories of a refugee childhood with archival and historical research, including interviews....
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Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece
$29.95
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...
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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...
