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ORT, the Second World War and the Rehabilitation of Holocaust Survivors

$49.95

Kavanaugh, Sarah

This book centres on the role played by ORT in the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors inside the Displaced Persons (DP) camps after the Second World War. A brief history of the ORT organisation is followed by the author highlighting ORT's work during the 1920s and 1930s, using Berlin as...

Orthodox Judaism in Britain since 1913

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An Ideology Forsaken

Freud-Kandel, Miri

In 1991, just as Jonathan Sacks was acceding to the post of Chief Rabbi, the United Synagogue, the largest synagogal institution in British Jewry, commissioned a report entitled A Time for Change. This report identified the significant difficulties in which many of the Orthodox institutions of British...

Ostrava and its Jews

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'Now No-One Sings You Lullabies'

Lawson, David; Salomonovicova, Libuse; Sustkova, Hana

The story of Ostrava and its Jews encapsulates in a small space (85 square miles) and a short time (ca. 150 years) a miniaturized history of Central Europe. It covers industrialization and massive economic growth, immigration and emigration, intolerance...

Out of the Ghetto

$22.95

Klajman, Jack

Out of the Ghetto is the compelling, true story of Jack Klajman's childhood. Jack was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1931, as the fourth of five children, to poor, working-class Jewish parents. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the apartment building Jack lived in was bombed, sending his family...

Pani Stefa and the Orphans

$37.50

Out of the Shadow of Korczak
Kicinska, Magdalena 
Translated by Sean Gasper Bye

At a moment when communists were engineering a New Man, and Zionists a New Jew, a doctor and a teacher devoted themselves to a social experiment: raising a new child.

Their orphanage is set amidst...

Perlzweig

$59.95

Pioneer of British Zionism

Perlzweig, Maurice

Edited by: Caute, David

Maurice L. Perlzweig (1895-1985) was the eldest son of an immigrant Jewish cantor and musical composer. The young Maurice gained degrees at UCL and Christ's College, Cambridge. Having abandoned Orthodox Judaism, he became second minister at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue...

Personal Engagement and the Study of the Holocaust

$89.00

Edited by: Benninga, Noah; Stoll, Katrin

Can we have an objective history of a modernist event such as the Holocaust? How much 'historical distance' does, can, or should a historian have? Since Hayden White's Metahistory (1973), we have become used to asking these questions. Saul Friedlander's 1992 Probing the Limits of...

Philip Magnus

$15.00

Victorian Educational Pioneer

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