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.

What initially appears to be a plain account of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester, merges into an overwhelming evocation of the experience of exile and the loss of homeland.

A young boy who survived the Nazi concentration camps arrives in the Lake District, where hopes of a new life await.

A young girl tries to sabotage her own bar mitzvah to avoid being the centre of attention but she has to face her fears when her plan unravels in unexpected ways.

Saul Friedlander, a leading figure in Holocaust studies, presents an authoritative history of the Jews in Nazi Germany, and examines the regime's policies towards them in the years between 1933 and 1945.

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...

Follows a young boy as he escapes from a convent orphanage in the mountains of Nazi occupied Poland in search of his parents.

'The Great Escape' is the story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from war-torn Budapest to freedom, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed the world.

Twin sisters with a Jewish mother find themselves the target of racists when their mother starts to host a nationwide radio show.