Gerald Jacobs


Gerald Jacobs is a British author and the literary editor of The Jewish Chronicle. His book Sacred Games is an account of a Hungarian Jew, Nicholas 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 Nazi ghetto 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.