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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bouncing Back – and Forward

    Bouncing Back – and Forward

    $59.95

    From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship
    Reif, Stefan C.

    Awarded an OBE in the 2020 October Queen’s Birthday Honours List

    Alternately gritty, funny, and deeply touching, but always honest and insightful, this is a revealing account of a life, with yet more to give, dedicated triumphantly to the highest standards of...

  • Bouncing Back – and Forward

    Bouncing Back – and Forward

    $25.00

    From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship
    Reif, Stefan C.

    Awarded an OBE in the 2020 October Queen’s Birthday Honours List

    Alternately gritty, funny, and deeply touching, but always honest and insightful, this is a revealing account of a life, with yet more to give, dedicated triumphantly to the highest standards of...

  • Chapters of Accidents

    Chapters of Accidents

    $24.95

    A Writer’s Memoir
    Baron, Alexander 
    Colin Holmes and Nick Baron (Eds)

    Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period.
    John Williams, The Guardian

    ‘We have waited a long time for this war’s All Quiet on the Western Front’, wrote...

  • Creating a Storm

    Creating a Storm

    $29.95

    Jewish Women in the World of Arts and Culture
    Seddon, Isabelle 
    Foreword by Dame Maureen Lipman

    It 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...

  • Debating the Zeitgeist and being Second Generation

    Debating the Zeitgeist and being Second Generation

    $34.95

    David, Miriam E. and Moos, Merilyn (Eds)

    This book is not a study about the second generation but gives voice to the second generation themselves. It provides fascinating and unique insights as to how the ‘second generation’ feels about themselves and their place within their communities.
    Lord Dubs

    The powerful combination of life...

  • East End Jews and Left-Wing Theatre

    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

    This...

  • Escape from Benghazi

    Escape from Benghazi

    $34.95

    Diary of an Imposter
    Meghnagi, Elia 

    Meghnagi 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...

  • Exodus Too

    Exodus Too

    $29.95

    The Story of an Ordinary Egyptian Jewish Family in Extraordinary Times

    Tamman, Gabriel

    [T]he time may soon be coming when the events that have taken place in the region will have to be considered as part of the great exchanges of population that have taken place in history rather than...