Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian

Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian - Hardcover

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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian - Hardcover

Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian - Hardcover

by Emanuel Derman
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Book Overview

Brief Hours and Weeks is the author's account of growing up in a small, tightly knit, first-generation Polish-Jewish community in Cape Town in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

Observing through at first naive and then later more sophisticated eyes, he describes his childhood and youth in a protective off-the-boat immigrant Jewish family in very British-Commonwealth South Africa as apartheid becomes increasingly coercive.

Through vivid and candid personal stories, he brings to life a time, place, culture, people, and set of mores that no longer exist. At 21, he leaves Africa to study in America.
ISBN9781068649103
Author Emanuel Derman
PublisherLML Press
GenreBiography, History, and Education
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages202
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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