Author: Julian Roup
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Depicts South Africa through the eyes of a Boerejood, a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer who struggles with issues of race and identity, as does his nation.
Boerejood
Author: Julian Roup
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Depicts South Africa through the eyes of a Boerejood, a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer who struggles with issues of race and identity, as does his nation.
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Depicts South Africa through the eyes of a Boerejood, a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer who struggles with issues of race and identity, as does his nation.
Boerejood: One Man’s Quest to Understand the Miracle of Democracy in South Africa
Author: Julian Roup
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
“Brilliant: engaged, intelligent, personal… and funny” – Financial Times Ten years after democracy arrived in South Africa here is a book that gives a voice to the Afrikaner, speaking in English about the ‘Miracle’ of the peaceful transition to majority rule – their worst nightmare. This is a book that goes beyond politics with the very human story of one man, giving insight into the hearts and minds of a people struggling to find their identity as white Africans trying to secure their place in Africa. They are seen through the eyes of a Boerejood – a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer – who struggles himself with issues of identity, reflecting the struggle around him. In the final analysis Boerejood is about the universal human struggle between good and evil, black and white, justice and injustice, love and hate – all that defines us as being human. It takes the reader on an astonishing and remarkable journey of discovery, the destination being the soul of the Afrikaner, and an answer to why these people accepted black majority rule with relatively no struggle, after years of racist persecution of their black and brown neighbours. “Reading Boerejood is like being a voyeur at a hugely animated dinner party where you sit and listen to highly charged debate with intelligent people locking horns. They make fascinating points and then incredibly inane and naïve remarks. Then they dazzle with astute observations. You are hooked and hang on to every word.”- Cape Times
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
“Brilliant: engaged, intelligent, personal… and funny” – Financial Times Ten years after democracy arrived in South Africa here is a book that gives a voice to the Afrikaner, speaking in English about the ‘Miracle’ of the peaceful transition to majority rule – their worst nightmare. This is a book that goes beyond politics with the very human story of one man, giving insight into the hearts and minds of a people struggling to find their identity as white Africans trying to secure their place in Africa. They are seen through the eyes of a Boerejood – a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer – who struggles himself with issues of identity, reflecting the struggle around him. In the final analysis Boerejood is about the universal human struggle between good and evil, black and white, justice and injustice, love and hate – all that defines us as being human. It takes the reader on an astonishing and remarkable journey of discovery, the destination being the soul of the Afrikaner, and an answer to why these people accepted black majority rule with relatively no struggle, after years of racist persecution of their black and brown neighbours. “Reading Boerejood is like being a voyeur at a hugely animated dinner party where you sit and listen to highly charged debate with intelligent people locking horns. They make fascinating points and then incredibly inane and naïve remarks. Then they dazzle with astute observations. You are hooked and hang on to every word.”- Cape Times
Press Digest
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ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Travelling Rabbi
Author: Moshe Silberhaft
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431405981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Annotation Tracing the journeys of the Travelling Rabbi, this book highlights Rabbi Silberhafts invaluable work in Africa, from caring for the graves of the forgotten and performing wedding ceremonies to providing kosher food and religious insight to various communities. Including numerous storiessome tragic, others humorous, but always fascinatingthis memoir is a celebration of the resilient people he encounters and a permanent record of the Jewish communities and personalities who would otherwise be forgotten.
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431405981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Annotation Tracing the journeys of the Travelling Rabbi, this book highlights Rabbi Silberhafts invaluable work in Africa, from caring for the graves of the forgotten and performing wedding ceremonies to providing kosher food and religious insight to various communities. Including numerous storiessome tragic, others humorous, but always fascinatingthis memoir is a celebration of the resilient people he encounters and a permanent record of the Jewish communities and personalities who would otherwise be forgotten.
Breaking Barriers
Author: C N Van Der Merwe
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004650113
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004650113
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Locating Life Stories
Author: Maureen Perkins
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824837738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The thirteen essays in this volume come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai‘i. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told, the authors engage with a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, media studies, and literature, to challenge claims that life writing is an exclusively Western phenomenon. Addressing the common desire to reflect on lived experience, the authors enlist interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for representing and understanding lives. Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David T. Hill, Craig Howes, Bryan Kuwada, Kirin Narayan, Maureen Perkins, Peter Read, Tony Simoes da Silva, Mathilda Slabbert, Gerry van Klinken, Pei-yi Wu.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824837738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The thirteen essays in this volume come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai‘i. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told, the authors engage with a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, media studies, and literature, to challenge claims that life writing is an exclusively Western phenomenon. Addressing the common desire to reflect on lived experience, the authors enlist interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for representing and understanding lives. Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David T. Hill, Craig Howes, Bryan Kuwada, Kirin Narayan, Maureen Perkins, Peter Read, Tony Simoes da Silva, Mathilda Slabbert, Gerry van Klinken, Pei-yi Wu.
A Dictionary of South African English
Author: Jean Branford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Containing over 5000 entries, this enlarged and revised edition provides a wealth of new and updated words borrowed from Afrikaans, Malay, township slang, Indian Khosian and Bantu languages, including words influenced by the political upheavals of recent years. Branford offers phonetic transcripts for words derived from other languages, and for most entries, he gives etymologies, grammatical usages, and helpful quotes.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Containing over 5000 entries, this enlarged and revised edition provides a wealth of new and updated words borrowed from Afrikaans, Malay, township slang, Indian Khosian and Bantu languages, including words influenced by the political upheavals of recent years. Branford offers phonetic transcripts for words derived from other languages, and for most entries, he gives etymologies, grammatical usages, and helpful quotes.
A Fisherman in the Saddle
Author: Julian Roup
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781919931241
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follows the journey of the author as he reflects back on his life-long quest to find "a place of his own" through the two sources of renewal in his life: horseback riding and fishing.
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781919931241
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follows the journey of the author as he reflects back on his life-long quest to find "a place of his own" through the two sources of renewal in his life: horseback riding and fishing.
Into the Secret Heart of Ashdown Forest: A Horseman's Country Diary
Author: Julian Roup
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Into the Secret Heart of Ashdown Forest is a love letter after a forty-year affair. Wry, funny, moving and vivid, this memoir chronicles the life of the author and the ten square miles of country he calls his Kingdom. This book is as good as a brisk walk in the woods on an autumn day. Written with love and passion, it is a hymn to landscape and freedom. It is a close and deep observation of the writer’s adopted country, the fabled Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England, (the home of Winnie the Pooh), where he has lived and ridden for the past forty years. His gift is the ability to take you deep into the landscapes that make this place resonate in his heart: its streams, woods, heathlands. You meet its literary residents, A.A, Milne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats. You get beneath its skin among the networks of fungi that allow the trees to speak. You taste its foods, meet its locals, both the living and the ghosts, and see its huge importance during the plague year 2020-21 through the pandemic lockdowns. His passion for horses shines through these pages and his writing is, as he himself says, a form of ‘moving meditation’. He takes you under the soil of this place and he leaves a soft glow on the landscape when he is gone.
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Into the Secret Heart of Ashdown Forest is a love letter after a forty-year affair. Wry, funny, moving and vivid, this memoir chronicles the life of the author and the ten square miles of country he calls his Kingdom. This book is as good as a brisk walk in the woods on an autumn day. Written with love and passion, it is a hymn to landscape and freedom. It is a close and deep observation of the writer’s adopted country, the fabled Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England, (the home of Winnie the Pooh), where he has lived and ridden for the past forty years. His gift is the ability to take you deep into the landscapes that make this place resonate in his heart: its streams, woods, heathlands. You meet its literary residents, A.A, Milne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats. You get beneath its skin among the networks of fungi that allow the trees to speak. You taste its foods, meet its locals, both the living and the ghosts, and see its huge importance during the plague year 2020-21 through the pandemic lockdowns. His passion for horses shines through these pages and his writing is, as he himself says, a form of ‘moving meditation’. He takes you under the soil of this place and he leaves a soft glow on the landscape when he is gone.
Dorot
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ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description