Gerald Jacobs

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

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

Bibliography

• Judi Dench: A Great Deal Of Laughter - the authorised biography, Gerald Jacobs, Little, Brown and Company, 1985, ISBN 978-0-70-883007-9
• 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