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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Essentials of the Land of Israel

    Essentials of the Land of Israel

    $69.95

    Marlon, Brandon

    Essentials of the Land of Israel is an excellent resource for both the layman and scholar interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the geography and history of Israel. 

    Rabbi Ken Spiro, Senior Lecturer & Researcher, Aish HaTorah, Jerusalem 

    Brandon Marlon’s ready compendium of...

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family

    Giacomo Meyerbeer and his Family

    $49.95

    Between Two Worlds
    Elaine Thornton

    Thornton 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...

  • Intrepid Pioneers

    Intrepid Pioneers

    $29.95

    Jewish Women in the Public Arena
    Seddon, Isabelle

    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 Seddon reveals the astonishing contributions made by British born...

  • Jewish Letchworth

    Jewish Letchworth

    $29.95

    A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience
    Fachler, Yanky

    Few people are aware of the intellectually diverse and remarkably innovative Jewish community of Letchworth which existed from the 1930s until the 1970s. Yanky Fachler has reclaimed the history of this talented group of people...

  • The Clothes on our Backs

    The Clothes on our Backs

    $37.95

    How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade

    Nyburg, Anna

    Jews had long been active in the clothing trade in Europe, developing new production and retail methods and excelling as designers. However, in the UK clothes production was mostly conservative and design was not a concept. What happened to...

  • Zev’s Children

    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...