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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848844117 | ISBN 10: 1848844115
Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical research. Their life-stories, enriched by a variety of sources, reflect the experiences of all Jewish immigran ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780747812302 | ISBN 10: 0747812306
This book tells the epic thousand-year story of Britain’s Jewish community, the country’s oldest minority group, replete with the dark episodes of persecution and expulsion, but also with positive periods of acceptance and toleration. Some Jews came ... more
View book details£10.50 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780226529479 | ISBN 10: 0226529479
In 1939, on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland, seven-year-old Edith Milton (then Edith Cohn) and her sister Ruth left Germany by way of the Kindertransport, the program which gave some 10,000 Jewish children refuge in England. The two were given ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780907123453 | ISBN 10: 0907123457
The author describes London's East End at a time of mass immigration from Eastern Europe to the shabby tenements of Stepney and Whitechapel. This was the birthplace of the Jewish socialist and libertarian movement. The book brings alive a forgotten a ... 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
View book details£19.95 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781902210247 | ISBN 10: 1902210247
Three competing Jewish organizations in London approached the British Government to initiate actions to assist European Jewry. Innumerable talks took place and many letters were exchanged. Impatient bureaucrats rejected the parallel requests and prop ... more
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