What do you want to know about the Jewish community in Britain? For 115 years, the answers have been found in The Jewish Year Book: the institutions, the organizations, the charities, contact details,
This is a unique and valuable book, a powerful account of fifty Jewish children hidden in the Kovno Ghetto during the Second World War. Each story has its own character and its own resonance, which w
This highly illustrated edition, first published in 1989, followed by an Addendum in 1994, comprises a comprehensive and indispensable history of the members of the Jewish community who served and die
A key player in the annexation of Austria in 1938, Odilo Globocnik was made Gauleiter of Vienna for seven months until the Nazi party forced him to resign because of his abrasive manner, murky financi
Paul Levine presents here for the first time the true history of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the most-famous heroes of the Holocaust. It is the first scholarly study of Wallenberg and Swedish diplomacy i
Today Raoul Wallenberg is a symbol of the ultimate Righteous Gentile, a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Elijah, who was martyred for his actions. In the minds of those he saved, he was a genui
During the Second World War, 10,000 Germans and Austrians volunteered to join the British Forces from the UK. Most were refugees, but there were others also. From 1939 until 1943 most served in the 18
Heggy, a writer and international petroleum strategist, continues his focus on the need for reforms in Egypt and the Middle East so they can rejoin the progress toward modern civilization. He points o
Leslie H. Hardman, a Jewish chaplain, entered Belsen camp two days after its liberation by the British Army. This book tells the story of what he found there, and what he did. The horror which first c
What is a philanthropist? Why do they do what they do? What impact do they have? What makes them tick? What in their personal biographies, their communities, their backgrounds, and their moment in tim
This memoir contains many fascinating vignettes about pre-war childhood in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, a child's-eye-view of the lost world of East European Jewry. It tells the tormented story of t
Antisemitic cartoons have long been rife in the Arab-Muslim media. The September 2001 Durban Conference against Racism, intended to denounce and combat racism in all its forms, also featured the dist
Fifty years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Polish weekly Polityka asked readers for their eye-witness reports of the persecution of Jews and of the Holocaust events in Poland. This book contain
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak’s works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal a
Although Jews were readmitted to England in 1661, nearly 200 years later there was an election for Chief Rabbi where the short list of candidates was all German. Today the community takes its British
From the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the Suez Crisis of 1956 Britain's strategic interests in Palestine and in the Middle East underwent radical changes. Professor Michael J. Cohen, a leading autho
Rabbi Jacobs, with sixty years' experience of pulpit work to his credit, provides a number of homilies for each weekly portion of the modern sermon and for the chapters of Ethics of the Fathers. The t
Communist opposition to Zionism has a long history which pre-dates both the Russian Revolution and the Balfour Declaration of November 1917. Yet the Communist and Marxist critique of Zionism has alway
Although Auschwitz is probably the most well known of the Nazi extermination camps, it is Treblinka which is the most notorious. During the 13 months of its existence, 850,000 were robbed and murdered
