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  • A Hero of Jewish Freedom

    A Hero of Jewish Freedom

    $24.95

    A Modern Joseph's Journey from Hijacker to Rabbi

    Mendelevich, Rabbi

    Foreword by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

    Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich was born in the small Baltic state of Latvia after the Second World War, which was under Soviet occupation. Yosef received a Soviet education, far removed from his Jewish faith and...

  • A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium

    A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium

    $26.95

    Survival, Scars and Healing

    Lazarus, Francine

    Francine Lazarus survived WWII in Belgium hidden with strangers, isolated from her family, and moved from place to place. She witnessed murder and was often injured herself. With her father murdered in Auschwitz, her story continues post-war with the young Francine, neglected and abused by her...

  • A Very British Subject

    A Very British Subject

    $27.50

    Litvinoff, Barnett

    Copyright: 1/25/1996

  • A Wing and A Prayer

    A Wing and A Prayer

    $34.95

    My Life and Times
    Weisman, Malcolm

    Malcolm has made such a significant contribution to so many areas for so long a time that this project is vital to ensure that his work is properly recorded and recognised. ... It is fair to say that there are small Jewish communities up and...

  • Amelie

    Amelie

    $24.95

    The Story of Lady Jakobovits

    Tessler, Gloria

    A child in war-torn Europe, Amelie Munk fled for her life with her mother, grandmother, and younger siblings on a packed train from Paris bound for the south of France. Eking out a tough daily existence, Amelie quickly matured into a young woman whose spirited...

  • An Anzac Zionist Hero

    An Anzac Zionist Hero

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    The Life of Lt-Colonel Eliazar Margolin

    Gouttman, Rodney

    An acclaimed figure in Israeli historiography, but little known in Australia, this book asks the question why. Margolin served in two armies in the First World War, the Australian and British, and was buried twice with full military honors, first in Australia, then Israel....

  • Arnold Ziff

    Arnold Ziff

    $35.00

    The Making of a Great Yorkshireman

    Watson, Nigel

    The life of Arnold Ziff is the story of one of Yorkshire's most successful businessmen. He floated his property company at the height of the post-war property boom, making him a fortune. His triumphant takeover of Barratts provided the backbone for one of today's...

  • Bashert

    Bashert

    $24.95

    A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest

    Simon, Andrea

    Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and larger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her quest for truth gave tragic answers. Using newly translated archival records, she peeled back layers of clues to confront the mystery. This story...

  • Becoming Kathrine Talbot

    Becoming Kathrine Talbot

    $24.95

    A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented
    Ribbat, Christoph

    Christoph Ribbat’s remarkable book is a creative biography and literary retrieval of Kathrine Talbot, née Ilse Gross ... It will make everyone who reads it reconsider what they believe they know about the lives of refugees, and rush to...

  • Ben Helfgott

    Ben Helfgott

    $29.95

    The Story of One of the Boys

    Freedland, Michael

    This is not just the story of another Holocaust survivor. After all, very few survivors would, just a few years after liberation, become Olympic athletes. It is a story Michael Freedland tells after dozens of interviews with Ben himself, as well as with...