Jewish Heritage

  • 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...

  • Helping With Inquiries

    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...

  • Immanuel Jakobovits

    Immanuel Jakobovits

    $32.95

    A Prophet in Israel

    Persoff, Meir

    Chaim Bermant called him 'far and away the greatest Chief Rabbi Britain has had'. Margaret Thatcher described him as 'one of the most remarkable spiritual leaders of the twentieth century'. And Jonathan Sacks lauded him as 'a prince of God in our midst'. From his first...

  • 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...

  • Jewish Living

    Jewish Living

    $14.95

    4th Edition

    Turner, Reuben

    In this informative handbook will be found the values of Judaism that have been the strong link in the golden chain of Jewish history. The compilation of knowledge found in these pages will be useful to all those who wish to find out more about the meaning and...

  • Jewish Nobel Prize Winners

    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...

  • Jews and the Olympic Games

    Jews and the Olympic Games

    from $29.95

    Sport - A Springboard for Minorities

    Mayer, Paul Yogi

    In the last century young Jews, particularly in Central Europe, found that they had the new and exhilarating opportunity to give expression to their physical talents and energy. How they and their successors grasped it is the theme of this engaging book, the...

  • Jews by the Seaside

    Jews by the Seaside

    $59.95

    The Jewish Hotels and Guesthouses of Bournemouth
    Fox, Pam 

    A visit to a Jewish hotel in Bournemouth in post-war Britain was greatly anticipated - for many, it was both a regular family and communal event. Pam Fox’s incisive investigation  has reclaimed the underlying meaning of this episode in Anglo-Jewish history.
    Colin...

  • Jews by the Seaside

    Jews by the Seaside

    $26.95

    The Jewish Hotels and Guesthouses of Bournemouth
    Fox, Pam 

    A visit to a Jewish hotel in Bournemouth in post-war Britain was greatly anticipated - for many, it was both a regular family and communal event. Pam Fox’s incisive investigation  has reclaimed the underlying meaning of this episode in Anglo-Jewish history.
    Colin...