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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408845127 | ISBN 10: 1408845121
Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909983236 | ISBN 10: 1909983233
he first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century. Daughter of Polish immigrant parents, Lily Tobias grew ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205848 | ISBN 10: 0300205848
Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558617704 | ISBN 10: 1558617701
FP brings back into print a literary gem. Personal essays by a great Jewish American writer. "Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its author’s simple humanity, deeply rooted in her u ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846948756 | ISBN 10: 1846948754
An investigation of Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this b ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780954848262 | ISBN 10: 0954848268
Bernard Kops is one of Britain's most celebrated and prolific authors. His new collection, This Room in the Sunlight includes over forty recent unpulished poems, together with most of his best poetry from his long writing years. His poems are witt ... more
View book details£20.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780520251366 | ISBN 10: 0520251369
Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Kraków ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844082544 | ISBN 10: 1844082547
One block of a Tel Aviv street is the starting point for this highly acclaimed writer's exploration of the inner dynamics of Israelis - not the government and its policies, but the people themselves, in all their variety. Iraqi shopkeepers, teenage s ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099450030 | ISBN 10: 0099450038
The author takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence in Israel, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and 50s, into his Russian immigrant parents' infernal marriage. Caught in the middle is one small boy with th ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780285637528 | ISBN 10: 0285637525
In 1980, an entire body of Jewish literature - the physical remnant of Yiddish culture - was on the verge of extinction. Previous volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780907123736 | ISBN 10: 0907123732
From Dannie Abse to Michael Rosen, and Elaine Feinstein to Lotte Kramer, this book, the first of its kind, celebrates poetry written by British Jews. The subjects covered include family and home, love and friendship, Judaism and secularism, the Holoc ... more
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