Gerald Jacobs is a British

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and the

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of ''

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''. His book ''Sacred Games'' is an account of a Hungarian

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, Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer, a

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survivor, was published in 1995. Hammer was a Hungarian

conscripted into the Hungarian Jewish forced labour

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in 1944. The book recounts Hammer's subsequent time in a

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for Jews, and his eventual sufferings in Birkenau. ''Nine Love Letters'' is Jacobs's first novel which was published in 2016. It tells the story of two Jewish refugee families whose lives unexpectedly converge in post-war London. Jacobs is the father of electronic musician Ben Jacobs, who performs as

Max Tundra Ben Jacobs (born 7 June 1974), more commonly known by the stage name Max Tundra, is an English multi-instrumental musician, singer and music producer. His work is noted for its maximalist approach, which is predominantly electronic music but inc ...

, and Becky Jacobs, a member of the band

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Bibliography

*''Judi Dench: A Great Deal Of Laughter - the authorised biography'', Gerald Jacobs,

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, 1985, *''Sacred Games'', Gerald Jacobs, Penguin, 1995, *''Nine Love Letters'', Gerald Jacobs, Quartet Books, 2016, British Jewish writers British editors Living people British literary editors Year of birth missing (living people) British male non-fiction writers {{UK-writer-stub