Split Lives
Jerusalem and Berlin Divided, 1948-1967
ISBN: PB: 9781805266815,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Drawing parallels with Cold War Berlin, "Split Lives" examines the divided city of Jerusalem to show the global context of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
This is the first comprehensive social history of Jerusalem between the 1948 and Six-Day wars - fro...
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22.00 GBP
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Lives in Common
Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron
ISBN: PB: 9781805266037,
ISBN: HB: 9781849044196,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2026
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
"A New Republic" Book of the Year
Challenging the received wisdom, this candid portrait of three cities reveals a history of co-existence between Arabs and Jews.
Most books dealing with the Israeli - Palestinian conflict see events through the eye...
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19.99 GBP
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35.00 GBP
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Thousand Miracles
From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide
ISBN: HB: 9781805265238,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2026
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
An astonishing memoir from the Holocaust survivor who oversaw the world's first genocide trials and has advised the ICC on crimes in Israel and Gaza.
When the Second World War began, Theodor Meron was a Jewish-born boy of just 9. He survived ghettos...
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25.00 GBP
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Two Sisters
Betrayal, Love and Resistance in Wartime France
ISBN: HB: 9781805262718,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A riveting, poignant account of two young women - the author's own mother-in-law, and her sister - and their miraculous escape from the murderous authorities of Vichy France.
When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, Marion and Huguette Muller's family...
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22.00 GBP
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People on the Beach
Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781805261629,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383777,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 31 illus.
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 31 illus.
A vivid history tracing Holocaust survivors who risked everything again for a new life in Palestine.
One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden...
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15.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Japanese Talmud
Antisemitism in East Asia
ISBN: HB: 9781787389540,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2023
144 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
144 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Investigates the roots of antisemitism in East Asia, revealing it not as a borrowing from Europe, but as a distinctly local cultural tradition.
The image of Jews in East Asia is a strange mixture of opposites, a paradoxical blend of admiration and m...
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25.00 GBP
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Bad Jews
A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
ISBN: HB: 9781787388529,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2022
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Selected as one of the New Statesman's "Best Books of 2022"
A lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics - and each other.
You can be called a Bad Jew - by the...
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20.00 GBP
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Jerusalem on the Amstel
The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic
ISBN: HB: 9781787380080,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2018
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan "carnival of nations": French Huguenots, North African merchants, Spanish Moriscos - and Iberian New Christians, formerly Jewish families forcibly converted to Catholicism, now fleeing the Inquisition...
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25.00 GBP
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Survival of the Jews in France
1940-44
ISBN: HB: 9781787380141,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2018
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it - ones neglected...
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35.00 GBP
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Invention of a Nation
Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel
ISBN: PB: 9781850655954,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2003
308 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
308 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The vulnerability which is the lot of any nation without a state was experienced in a particularly extreme way by the Jews. With the destitution and persecution of many Jewish communities in the 19th century, especially in Eastern Europe, Jews demand...
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20.00 GBP
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