Chapters from South African History, Jewish & General Hardcover - 1982

Johannesburg, South Africa: Kayor Publishers, 1982 In the chapters that follow, the story is told of the arrival and early years of the masses of Jewish immigrants from the Eastern Europe of the 1930s, the time of Hitler's emergence in Germany, and just before the Quota Act he came Law and immigration to South Africa ended. They were truly heroic men and women who were forced to tear up their roots in their homeland, and unaided and with their indomit able faith and courage, built new homes in this land, and raised up children, grandchildren and great grandchildren who made invalu able contributions to the life of this country's political, cultural and economic spheres, and in the fields of art, science, education and philanthropy. Their perplexities, pains, joys and sorrows, and their eventual transformation and achievements in their new-found freedom is re told through documents, pictures and reminiscences by a contempo rary himself an immigrant, having arrived from Lithuania (Keidan) as a teenager in 1930. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reading copy - clipped flyleaf - pen markings and library stamps - 214 pages with black-and-white photographs. ------------------ Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Roughly 5½ " Wide and 8½ " Tall