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Blumenfeld's milestone Jewish saga makes a welcome reappearance

Phineas Khan
by Simon Blumenfeld
(London Books, £14.95)

 

LONDON Books is justifiably gaining a reputation for reprinting classic but neglected 20th-century works set wholly or in part in the British capital.

 

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