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An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives- historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
There is a vast and varied literature on the formation of 19th-century Jewish diasporic communities worldwide. Now, added to this are the previously unpublished autobiographical works of two members of the Schrire family, which form the core of The Reb and the Rebel, mainly covering the period 1892-1913. They comprise a diary, a poem and a memoir. The first two, written by Reb Yehuda Leib Schrire (1851-1912), and translated from pre-Ben Yehuda Hebrew into English, chart his journey through a number of countries, including Lithuania, Holland, England and South Africa. The third is by his son, Harry Nathan (1895-1980). The social history within these documents paints a lively picture of South African Jewish communities at the turn of the 20th century. They reveal tiny details of shipboard life below deck; major issues of religious belief and practice in Lithuanian shtetls, Johannesburg goldfields and District Six homes; and global issues of mass migration, pandemics and war. They show how community formation in Cape Town replicates the orthodoxy of der alte heym, even as the new generation is integrated into a life undreamed of in the Old Country. Analyses of the contexts and authors, together with Appendices which include a genealogy, glossary and catalogued artworks, combine here to make the South African Jewish past come alive.
This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.
"So We Died (Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn) is a translation from the Yiddish of a powerful eyewitness account of life in the Shavl (Šiauliai, Lithuania) ghetto from 1941 to 1944. For two-and-a-half years, 5,000 Jews were confined in the ghetto in Shavl/Šiauliai, Lithuania's third biggest city, which is located between Kovno/Kaunas to the south and Riga, Latvia, to the north. In contrast to other key European ghettos, few documents survive from the Shavl ghetto. Three accounts of the Shavl ghetto years exist, yet to date none has been published in English. Among these accounts, Levi Shalit's stands out for its power, beauty, and vision. Shalit was a true literary stylist who sought to convey the story of the ghetto with nuance and vibrancy. He was an acute psychological observer who wrestled with profound questions about the human condition. His work offers unique insights into the motivations, the inner and outer conflicts, and the desperate challenges facing his community. His unflinching honesty takes us to the heart of issues that matter deeply for our understanding of the Holocaust, and of ourselves. Composed shortly after the war, Shalit's account proceeds not day by day but through a carefully constructed set of themes and a series of stories. Shalit's intention was not simply to document the events he lived through, but to present them in compelling story form. His work is a model of remembrance and witnessing. Section One, "Oh, Israel, People of Faith," begins with the German invasion in June of 1941 and describes the start of the occupation, with its executions, restrictions, prohibitions, and humiliations, and the massacre carried out by Germans and Lithuanians throughout the country during July and August. The section concludes with the transfer of Shavl's 5,000 surviving Jews into the ghetto. Section Two, "So We Lived," describes ghetto life in all its facets: the overarching German command, the Lithuanian administration, and the Jewish council that oversaw food distribution, housing, labor, education, a synagogue, a police force, and other social structures. Internal discipline, quarrels, and contact with authorities and Lithuanian neighbors are also described. This section contains a series of stories featuring individual characters. Section Three, "The 'Masada' Book," describes the attempts to organize an underground resistance group, in which Shalit was an active participant. Section Four, "The Community Dies," begins with the transformation of the ghetto into a concentration camp and includes the seizure and deportation of the ghetto's children. The section ends with the ghetto's liquidation and the journey to the Stutthof concentration camp, from which most of the Jewish men were taken to Dachau"--
Traversing far flung Jewish communities in South Africa, Australia, Texas, Brazil, China, New Zealand, Quebec, and elsewhere, this wide-ranging collection explores the notion of "frontier" in the Jewish experience as a historical/geographical reality and a conceptual framework. As a compelling alternative to viewing the periphery only as a locus of dispossession and exile from the "homeland, " this work imagines a new Jewish history written as the history of the Jews at the frontier. In this new history, governed by the dynamics of change, confrontation, and accommodation, marginalized experiences are brought to the center and all participants are given voice. By articulating the tension between the center/periphery model and the frontier model, Jewries at the Frontier shows how the productive confrontation between and among cultures and peoples generates a new, multivocal account of Jewish history.
Afrikaans, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
This book pin-points some of the recent changes exerienced by the 120,000 Jews of South Africa, in terms of demographic structure, geographical distribution, and occupational patterns.
Proceedings of a conference held at the Centre for the Book, Cape Town, 11-14 May, 2005.