Gerald Jacobs is a British

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and the

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of ''

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

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, Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer (1920-2003), a

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survivor, was published in 1995. Hammer was a Hungarian

conscripted into the Hungarian Jewish

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

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for Jews, and his suffering in

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. ''Nine Love Letters'' is Jacobs's first novel, 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, and Becky Jacobs, a member of the band Tunng.

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

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, 1985, *''Sacred Games'', Gerald Jacobs,

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, 1995, *''Nine Love Letters'', Gerald Jacobs, Quartet Books, 2016, *''Pomeranski'', Gerald Jacobs, 2020

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