Gerald Jacobs

Gerald Jacobs is a British author and the literary editor of The Jewish Chronicle.[1] His book Sacred Games, an account of a Hungarian Jew, Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer (1920-2003), a Holocaust survivor, was published in 1995.[1] Hammer was a Hungarian Jew conscripted into the Hungarian Jewish forced labour Battalion in 1944. The book recounts Hammer's subsequent time in a Nazi ghetto for Jews, and his suffering in Birkenau.

Nine Love Letters is Jacobs's first novel, published in 2016.[1] It tells the story of two Jewish refugee families whose lives unexpectedly converge in post-war London.[1]

Jacobs is the father of electronic musician Ben Jacobs, who performs as Max Tundra, and Becky Jacobs, a member of the band Tunng.

Bibliography

  • Judi Dench: A Great Deal Of Laughter - the authorised biography, Gerald Jacobs, Little, Brown and Company, 1985, ISBN 978-0-70-883007-9[1]
  • Sacred Games, Gerald Jacobs, Penguin, 1995, ISBN 978-0-14-024243-0
  • Nine Love Letters, Gerald Jacobs, Quartet Books, 2016, ISBN 978-0-70-437422-5
  • Pomeranski, Gerald Jacobs, 2020[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Galton, Bridget (24 January 2017). "Gerald Jacobs: 'Publishers thought the Holocaust was too horrific, that people won't want to read that'". Ham and High. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  2. ^ Jacobs, Gerald (6 May 2020). "Back when Brixton had Jews". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 29 October 2023.


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