Sir Martin Gilbert, whose last book was about Jews in Arab lands, will be writing on a subject closer to home for his next. He was 60,000 words into a history of British Jewry before he was drafted into the Iraq War inquiry a couple of years ago but hopes to get back to it next year, he told a Tel Aviv University Trust dinner on Sunday.
One titbit he offered was that in the anti-Jewish riots in South Wales a hundred years ago one of the miners who tried to protect Jews was the grandfather of former Labour leader Lord Kinnock.