Gerald Jacobs is a British author and the literary editor of The Jewish Chronicle. [1] His book Sacred Games, an account of a Hungarian Jew, Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer, a Holocaust survivor, was published in 1995. [1] 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 suffering in Birkenau.
Nine Love Letters is Jacobs's first novel, published in 2016. [1] It tells the story of two Jewish refugee families whose lives unexpectedly converge in post-war London. [1]
Jacobs is the father of electronic musician Ben Jacobs, who performs as Max Tundra, and Becky Jacobs, a member of the band Tunng.