The Reb and the rebel
The personal histories of an immigrant father and his Cape-born son burst from some tattered Hebrew notebooks and a translucent typescript, giving the Jewish diasporic settlement in South Africa an immediacy seldom encountered before. The manuscripts of two Schrires – Reb Yehuda Leib (1851-1912) and...
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| description | The personal histories of an immigrant father and his Cape-born son burst from some tattered Hebrew notebooks and a translucent typescript, giving the Jewish diasporic settlement in South Africa an immediacy seldom encountered before. The manuscripts of two Schrires – Reb Yehuda Leib (1851-1912) and his youngest son Harry (1895-1980) – include a diary, a memoir and an epic poem. 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 di 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1341572024-02-15T07:44:38Z The Reb and the rebel Schrire, Carmel Schrire, Gwynne The personal histories of an immigrant father and his Cape-born son burst from some tattered Hebrew notebooks and a translucent typescript, giving the Jewish diasporic settlement in South Africa an immediacy seldom encountered before. The manuscripts of two Schrires – Reb Yehuda Leib (1851-1912) and his youngest son Harry (1895-1980) – include a diary, a memoir and an epic poem. 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 di 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. 2024-02-15T07:44:37Z 2024-02-15T07:44:37Z 2016 book ONIX_20240215_9781485122425_19 9781485122425 978079922493 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134157 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://www.booksdirect.co.za/item/the_reb_and_the_rebel https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/view/52/89/224 UCT Press 10.58331/UCTPRESS.52 10.58331/UCTPRESS.52 9ab8d8c8-92ff-4470-a14e-e60f2c992ea5 9781485122425 978079922493 260 Cape Town open access |
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