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Author
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A history of the Jews is possibly the greatest story that can be told. It is the story of mankind - at its most noble and at its most barbaric. From the invention of a single deity and the killing of his embodied Son through to the production of urban modernity, so much of supreme importance for humanity bears the imprint of Jewish thinking and culture.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Tracing the world-wide migrations of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Israel, this seventh edition spans over 4000 years of history in 140 maps. It presents a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story.
5) Always
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The final book in the story of Felix finds him in the modern world and helping an old friend with a new, young one.
Author
Series
Out of the Hitler Time volume 2
Description
A Jewish teen girl struggles to adjust to life in London as a refugee after her family have fled Berlin to escape persecution from the Nazis.
14) Jews in Britain
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2005
Description
The 'Communities in Britain' series looks at the many different communities which create Britain's multicultural society, supporting key issues in the Citizenship curriculum.
Author
Publisher
Granta
Description
'Journey To Nowhere' is a profoundly disturbing story of personal tragedy, but also an account of how international complacency at the end of the century's worst catastrophe has led first to making the lives of thousands of displaced European Jews infinitely worse, and then to the devastating repercussions felt today.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known - Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin...
17) The book thief
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Description
Narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day, the wail of the sirens comes too late.
18) Once
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Description
Follows a young boy as he escapes from a convent orphanage in the mountains of Nazi occupied Poland in search of his parents.