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Exclusive for the Jewish News January 28 2016 The personal records of more than 40,000 Jews who arrived in the UK before and after the Second World War have been made publicly available for the first time by World Jewish Relief. Here, Jenni Frazer looks at the story behind the digitisation of these records, including those […]
What happened to the Jewish orphans who were brought to Britain in 1945? The stories of the 732 orphans – of which only 80 were girls – who were taken in by the British government are now being recorded in ‘Memory Quilts’ at the Jewish Museum For the Daily Telegraph January 27 2016 Bela Rosenthal […]
Column for Jewish News January 16 2016 by Jenni Frazer So you’re at the airport en route to somewhere fabulous – possibly Israel – but your hands are full. And even though your suitcase is the newest, coolest, and probably most expensive in the whole of Stanmore, you still haven’t been able to grow an […]
Column for Jewish News January 1 2015 So finally, it is behind us. The C-word, that is. When even the Chief Rabbi issued year-end words of wisdom to tie in with those of the Archbishop of Canterbury, we are entitled to wonder about the pervasiveness of Christmas. When my Hindu newspaper boy drops in a […]
By Jenni Frazer for Times of Israel posted December 25 2015 LONDON — Wendy Holden thinks “Born Survivors” is the most important book she has ever written, and as the author of more than 30 books she is in a position to judge. But the British writer goes further. The book, she says, is not […]
The Times of Israel by Jenni Frazer, posted December 17 2015 LONDON — Veteran diplomat Yehuda Avner knew he wasn’t well, and went to see his doctor. He wanted one last throw of the dice – and, in an extraordinary way, he achieved it from beyond the grave. The Manchester-born octogenarian had already completed one […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel posted December 13 2015 LONDON — Lance Anisfeld is a dapper and cheerful London businessman who works out of a building shaped like a fish. He sports silver salmon-shaped cufflinks, fish decals adorn the door of his office, and a poster on the front of his desk […]
Column for the Jewish News December 3 2015 I spent quite a lot of time some years ago following the vapour trail of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who was then the Chabad rabbi at Oxford. Boteach spent 11 years all in all in Oxford, so one could scarcely accuse him of being unfamiliar with how things […]
For the Times of Israel by Jenni Frazer, posted November 30 2015 LONDON — The British National Archives file marked as CAB301/116 looks innocuous enough at first glance. But within its ordinary cardboard cover lies a torrid story, the tale of a man once known as “the Merchant of Death,” who was called “the wickedest […]
For the Times Diary Nov 28 2015 The Chilcot Inquiry has outlasted one of its panellists, with the death this year of Sir Martin Gilbert, the scholar who produced historical atlases and a biography of Winston Churchill. Giving the eulogy at his memorial service, Gordon Brown said it was lucky Gilbert ignored advice from historian […]