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  • Capturing Memories

    Capturing Memories

    $19.50

    The Art of Reminiscing

    Gordon, Sue; Rosefield, Jeanie; Stanton, Pat; Woolf, Vivienne

    In today's fast-paced world, older people find little opportunity to tell stories and pass on the wisdom of their experience and years. They remember the past clearly, but the art of storytelling has been lost. Reminiscence classes revive this art....

  • 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...

  • Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent

    Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent

    from $32.95

    Stevens, Lewis

    This book describes and explains the relative preponderance of composers of Jewish descent, particularly during the last two hundred years. The first two chapters of the book give a brief history of composers of Jewish descent from biblical times to the present day. Chapter three attempts to assess the...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Finding Relly

    Finding Relly

    $19.95

    My Family, The Holocaust and Me
    Schonfeld, Rosemary

    Rosemary 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,...