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“... the meantime Napoleon had conquered Venice; in 1797 the ghetto gates were torn down on his orders.Harry Freedman​ has written varied books about Jewish history and culture: on Leonard Cohen’s spiritual sources; the Talmud; the Kabbalah; Britain’s Jews. In Shylock’s Venice, he has taken a broad brush to the history of Venice’s Jews, producing a ...”

“... by contrast, was to be admired as a British socialist who was proud to have a signed photograph of Harry Truman in his study.The ‘Global Britain’ slogan, the Indo-Pacific tilt, and the commitment to increase the UK’s nuclear weapons stockpile (the ambition to become ‘the European partner with the broadest and most integrated presence in the ...”

“... names, just as the middle classes in England at the end of the 20th century turned to Jack, Harry, Max and Ben. Whatever his real name, the fact that scholars in the Hellenistic period found it unbelievable that the great philosopher could be a ‘Plato’ – they preferred that his real name be Aristocles, ‘Famed for Excellence’, after his ...”