Biographies » Jewish History
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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...
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Chief Rabbi Hertz
$34.95
The Wars of the Lord
Taylor, Derek
Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946), perhaps Britain's greatest Chief Rabbi, led his community through two World Wars and was instrumental in the rescue of Jewish refugees from Nazism. He published many books and edited the seminal Hertz Chumash. Rabbi Hertz was a founder of...
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Creating a Storm
$29.95
Jewish Women in the World of Arts and Culture
Seddon, Isabelle
Foreword by Dame Maureen LipmanIt 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 NeubergerHere Isabelle...
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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
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Escape from Benghazi
$34.95
Diary of an Imposter
Meghnagi, EliaMeghnagi takes us on a cultural and political tour of Benghazi and its Jewish community in the twentieth century under Italian, British and Arab regimes. In doing so he reveals with a masterful and at times funny touch his personal story as a boy growing...
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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... -
Great Philanthropists
$84.95
Wealth and Charity in the Modern World 1815-1945
Edited by: Cesarani, David; Mandler, Peter
What is a philanthropist? Why do they do what they do? What impact do they have? What makes them tick? What in their personal biographies, their communities, their backgrounds, and their moment in time drove them to devote...
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Haham Moses Gaster
$59.95
Wayward Genius
Derek TaylorA Zionist before Theodor Herzl, the only Ashkenazi Haham the Sephardim ever appointed, the only senior British Jewish spiritual figure to be dismissed, a world expert on the Samaritans, a collector of 2,000 manuscripts, a scholar with a 45,000 book library at its peak, Moses Gaster...
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Hermann Adler
$59.95
The King's Chief Rabbi
Taylor, Derek
With a foreword by Lord Jacob Rothschild, OMHermann Adler contributed enormously as Chief Rabbi to the Jewish community in the UK and beyond.
From the Foreword by Lord Jacob Rothschild, OM
When Chief Rabbi Adler died in 1911, his friend, Sir Adolph Tuck wrote: ‘The fame of... -
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
Here Isabelle Seddon reveals the astonishing contributions made by British born...