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Finding Relly
$19.95
My Family, The Holocaust and Me
Schonfeld, RosemaryRosemary Schonfeld grew up as the daughter of a Czech immigrant in post-war UK and Canada, unaware of her father’s Jewish identity and of what really happened to his absent relatives. In adulthood she began to feel compelled to find out whether Relly,...
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From Krakow to Berkeley: Coming out of Hiding
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An immigrant's search for identity and belonging
Rabkin, Anna
What happens to a child whose early life is marked by trauma and loss? Can a reviled other find the courage to speak out? Anna Rabkin's comfortable childhood in Krakow ended abruptly when her Jewish family fled both Communists and Nazis during World...
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Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family
$49.95
Between Two Worlds
Elaine ThorntonThornton provides a pithy family biography of the well-known Berlin Beer family that illuminates the paradoxical situation between enlightenment and antisemitism that Jews faced in the German territories in the 19th century.
Dr Susanne Korbel, University of Gratz
In the mid-nineteenth century, one name dominated the operatic... -
Helping With Inquiries
$34.95
An Autobiography
Jacobs, Louis
This autobiography of one of the world's leading Jewish religious thinkers and teachers, and the central participant in the dramatic 'Jacobs affair', begins with his early boyhood in a poor district of Manchester. The story covers his student life at Gateshead and London University, his trips...
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Intrepid Pioneers
$29.95
Jewish Women in the Public Arena
Seddon, IsabelleIt is to Isabelle Seddon’s great credit that she marks the contributions of the early pioneers, as well as those who have done sterling work in more recent years.
Rabbi Dame Julia Neuberger
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Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
$39.00
Taylor, Derek
With a Foreword by Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Jews make up 0.2% of the worlds' population, yet they have won over 20% of the Nobel prizes – 204 in total out of around 900 awarded since the first Laureates at the start of the...
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Pani Stefa and the Orphans
$37.50
Out of the Shadow of Korczak
Kicinska, Magdalena
Translated by Sean Gasper ByeAt 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.
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Ten Chief Rabbis
$60.00
Their Lives Illustrated with Artefacts from the Private Collection of Professor David Latchman
The United SynagogueThis unique insight into the lives of the previous Chief Rabbis, both scholarly yet accessible, has been made possible through the writing and, even more so, the archives and collection of Professor David...
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Zev’s Children
$26.95
An International Jewish Family
Collins, Kenneth
This is the history of one family but it is also, in microcosm, the story of the Jewish people over the past two centuries. Kenneth Collins, the premier chronicler of Scottish Jewry ... encounters Communists and Zionists, businessmen and intellectuals, upright citizens and endearing...