Library

Australian Genesis, Jewish Convicts and Settler 1788-1850

Tracing Australia Jewish history from the early years through to colonial Jewish personalities to creation of established communities, this interesting historical narrative shows the struggles and successes of a determined group of people striving to find their place in a new world.

Balfour 100

Booklet which goes with part of an exhibition mounted by MacDonald and Christian organisations to celebrate the importance of the Balfour Declaration in 1917.Gives the events leading up to the declaration

Battles of the Bible

Fine narrative from two Israelis who know their military history first-hand of the various battles, plans, tactics, used in the famous Biblical battles mentioned in the Tanakh.

Before the Flood

Scholarly approach in which Wilson contends that the cradle of civilisation was the northern Turkish region and not Egypt or Mesopotamia as a result of marine archaeological findings in recent years.

Between Arab and Israeli

Experiences of Burns when he worked for the United Nations in the Middle East from 1954-1957.

Both Sides of the Hill: Britain and The Palestine War

These two contemporary historians have done an in-depth analysis of the independence movement and wars that ensued in Israel. Comprehensive and pro-Israel (thank goodness; someone has to be), these two writers talked with everyone who was anyone, displayed a good knowledge of both military and political history, and as a result have give a good picture of how it all happened.

Brothers in Arms

The remarkable story of the Bielski brothers who built a secret town in the heart of the forest to save Jews from the Nazis. The three Bielski brothers, Tuvia, Asael, and Zus, managed to save over 1200 Jews in a Belorussian forest. These heroes, until now, have largely been forgotten by history but should be part of every Jews general knowledge.

Building Jerusalem, Jewish Architecture in Britain

Commentary and floor plans of the various synagogues in Great Britain ass well as the architectural details of the main houses of worship, synagogue buildings throughout London, the greater |London area and the Southwest. A good documentation especially for those synagogues which have fallen into a state of disrepair, are no longer used or have been demolished which reveal Jewish heritage sites since the 17th century.

Calcutta

Pictorial run around Calcutta with commentary which includes the famous |Jewish synagogues representing Indian Jewry.

Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings

After a brief discussion of early Jewish leaders, the Monarchy from 1020 BCE to 70CE is examined. A who's who which explains who everyone was and what happened during this tumultuous period.

Churban-Jewish responses to Churban, the murder of Jews of Europe

A fine text to be used in teaching the holocaust, R. Bayfield's Churban covers, not the Babylonian or the Roman Churbanim, but the Nazi years, covering the time when Hitler came to power until the Nuremberg Trials and the present state of world Jewry.

England, the History of the Anglo-Jewish Community

A brief history of the Jews in England from 1066 onwards; thumb-nail sketches of the various key events in Jewish life from tolerance to expulsion, to re-entry (Cromwell, Menasseh ben Israel) to Jewish education and leading lights in the Jewish community and to eventual citizenship.

Essays in Honour of Yigael Yadin

Israel's most famous archeologist (The Dead Sea Scrolls, Masada), Yigael Yadin, is the source of inspiration for this collection of essays by major Christian and Jewish scholars throughout the world cover the artifacts from the ancient world in the Middle East and major finds from the ancient Near East through the Medieval period.

Excavations at Masada (all in Hebrew)

Pictorial and narrative explanation of diggings and findings at Masada as we;; as plans and detailed diagrams of particular sites and designs found of the sight of what was the former palace of King Herod and later the scene of the demise of Jewish refugees who were fleeing the Romans who were attacking the fortress.

Exodus Revisited

Pictorial account of those who made it off The Exodus and settled in Israel; lovely study of the early Israelis. Also, a good 'tour' of the country and the main sites. Photographs by Dimitrious Harissiadis.

Falmouth's Hstoric Jewish Cemetery c1740-1913

A guide

Forged in Fury

The story of 'DIN' a group of concentration camp survivors who organised themselves into a unit whose purpose was to avenge the death of their fellow Jews at the hands of the Nazis.