Yad Vashem Collections - Library

: Hertog, Susan

: 2011

: English

: 2012-0006

"An autobiographical account of the early years of a life long militant. Joe Jacobs, who died in 1977, had been working for many years on this story. It is not just another local history nor is it just the autobiography of a workingman, although it is both of these things. It is one man’s highly individual view of a major period of political change seen from a very special corner of England. The General Strike, the Great Depression and above all the rise of Fascism colour this story. The British Communist Party at grass roots level is one of the book’s major features. Joe Jacobs was born the son of Eastern...

: Jacobs, Joe

: 1991

: English

: 2024-1479

Never again

"By 1976, the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline, racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest, the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100,000 votes in London. In response, an anti-fascist campaign was born, which combined mass action to deprive the Front of public platforms with a mass cultural movement. Rock Against Racism brought punk and reggae bands together as a weapon against the right. At Lewisham in August 1977, fighting between the far right and its opponents saw two...

: Renton, Dave

: 2019

: English

: 2023-2550

Nouvelles du ghetto

"Le «?ghetto?», c'est ce quartier misérable de l'East London où se rassemblent les immigrants juifs, chassés de l'empire russe par la misère et la persécution. Le récit autographique de Joe Jacobs a pour théâtre le quartier juif de Londres. Ce ghetto qui est son berceau et son milieu naturel et dont il cherche à s'échapper en même temps qu'à s'y enraciner Joe Jacobs est né en 1913 dans le quartier de Whitechapel, au coeur de l'East End de Londres, qui suinte la misère ouvrière, les joies et les espoirs des petites gens. Cette chronique de la vie ouvrière londonienne des années?1920 et?1930 se lit comme un roman...

: Jacobs, Joe

: 2022

: French

: 2023-2024

The black book

"In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' first priority in the event of a successful invasion. Who were they? What had they done to provoke Germany? For the first time, the historian Sybil Oldfield uncovers their stories and reveals why the Nazis feared their influence. Those on the hitlist - more than half of them naturalised refugees - were many of Britain's most gifted and humane inhabitants. Among their numbers we find the writers E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, humanitarians and religious leaders, scientists and artists, the social reformers Margery Fry...

: Oldfield, Sybil

: 2020

: English

: 2021-0697

We fight fascists

"Returning to civilian life, at the close of the Second World War, a group of Jewish veterans discovered that, for all their effort and sacrifice, their fight was not yet done. Creeping back onto the streets were Britain’s homegrown fascists, directed from the shadows by Sir Oswald Mosley. Horrified that the authorities refused to act, forty-three Jewish exservicemen and women resolved to take matters into their own hands. In 1946, they founded the 43 Group and let it be known that they were willing to stop the far-right resurgence by any means necessary. Their numbers quickly swelled. Joining the...

: Sonabend, Daniel

: 2019

: English

: 2020-1031