Gerald Jacobs Explained

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, 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, ^[1]

• Sacred Games, Gerald Jacobs, Penguin, 1995,
• Nine Love Letters, Gerald Jacobs, Quartet Books, 2016,
• Pomeranski, Gerald Jacobs, 2020^[2]

Notes and References

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