The Kasrils Affair

Author : Joel B. Pollak
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781919895079
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kasrils Affair written by Joel B. Pollak and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of a prominent Jewish politician outside Israel vehemently attacking the Israeli government and its policies, publicly and self-consciously, as a Jew

Author : Anaïs Angelo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000432688
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Biography in Africa written by Anaïs Angelo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together historians, political scientists, and literary analysts, this volume shows how biographical narratives can shed light on alternative, little known or under-researched aspects of state power in African politics. Part 1 shows how biographical narratives breathe new life into subjects who, upon decolonization, had been reduced to silence - women, workers, and radical politicians. The contributors analyze the complex relationship between biographical narratives and power, questioning either the power of biographical codes peculiar to western, colonial origins, or the power to shape public memory. Part 2 reflects on the act of (auto-)biography writing as an exercise of power, one that blurs the lines between truth and invention. (Auto-)biographical narratives appear as politicized, ambiguous stories. Part 3 focuses on female leadership during and after colonization, exploring on how women gained, lost, or reinvented "power". Brought together, the contributions of this volume show that the function of biographical narratives should no longer oscillate between romanticized narratives and historical evidence; their varied formats all offer fruitful opportunities for a multidisciplinary dialogue. This book will be of interest to scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds working on the African postcolonial state, the decolonization process, women’s and gender studies, and biography writing.

Author : Cathy Gelbin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317625064
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalisation written by Cathy Gelbin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary anthology explores the impact of current globalization processes on Jewish communities across the globe. The volume explores the extent to which nationalized constructs of Jewish culture and identity still dominate Jewish self-expressions, as well as the discourses about them, in the rapidly globalizing world of the twenty-first century. Its contributions address the ways in which Jewishness is now understood as transcending the old boundaries and ideologies of nation states and their continental reconfigurations, such as Europe or North America, but also as crossing the divides of Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, as well as the confines of Israel and the Diaspora. Which new paradigms of Jewish self- location within the evolving and conflicting global discourses about the nation, race, the Holocaust and other genocides, anti-Semitism, colonialism and postcolonialism, gender and sexual identities open up in the current era of globalisation, and to what extent might transnational notions of Jewishness, such as European-Jewish identity, create new discursive margins and centers? Chapters explore the impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict on cross-cultural relations between Jews and other racialized groups in the Diaspora, and discuss the ways in which recent discourses such as postcolonialism and transnationalism might relate to global Jewish cultures. The intent of the volume is to begin a process of investigation into twenty-first century Jewish identity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.

Author : Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608796
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race written by Yasmeen Abu-Laban and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent developments and their historical roots is more pressing than ever. Bearing this in mind, Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan discuss the historic and contemporary dynamics in Israel/Palestine, and their international reverberations, from the unique vantage point of 'race', racialization, racism and anti-racism. They therefore offer close analysis of the 'idea' of Israel and the 'absence' of Palestine by examining the concepts of race and identity in the region. With fresh coverage of themes relating to gender, Idigeneity, the environment , surveillance and the war on terror, Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race will appeal to scholars in political science, sociology and Middle East studies.

Author : Charles Asher Small
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004265562
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity written by Charles Asher Small and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of essays based on papers presented at a conference organized at Yale University and hosted by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) and the International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA), entitled “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity.” The essays are written by scholars from a wide array of disciplines, intellectual backgrounds, and perspectives, and address the conference’s two inter-related areas of focus: global antisemitism and the crisis of modernity currently affecting the core elements of Western society and civilization. Rather than treating antisemitism merely as an historical phenomenon, the authors place it squarely in the contemporary context. As a result, this volume also provides important insights into the ideologies, processes, and developments that give rise to prejudice in the contemporary global context. This thought-provoking collection will be of interest to students and scholars of antisemitism and discrimination, as well as to scholars and readers from other fields.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaapse Bibliotekaris written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

Author : Peter Hain
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776191234
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pretoria Boy written by Peter Hain and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A tour de force of an extraordinary half-century of campaigning for justice' – Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and United Nations Development Chief Peter Hain – famous for his commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle – has had a dramatic 50-year political career, both in Britain and in his childhood home of South Africa, in an extraordinary journey from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes the arrest and harassment of his activist parents and their friends in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close family friend, and the Hains' enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant campaigns in the UK against touring South African rugby and cricket sides, he was dubbed 'Public Enemy Number One' by the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was maliciously framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a letter bomb. In 2017–2018 he used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in then President Jacob Zuma's administration, informed by a 'Deep Throat' source. While acknowledging that the ANC government has lost its way, Hain exhorts South Africans to re-embrace Nelson Mandela's vision.

Author : Alan Wieder
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673563
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid written by Alan Wieder and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle, as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle carried out by the famous Umkhonto we Sizwe. Only one of them, however, would survive to see the fall of the old regime and the founding of a new, democratic South Africa. This book, the first extended biography of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, is a remarkable account of one couple and the revolutionary moment in which they lived. Alan Wieder’s deeply researched work draws on the usual primary and secondary sources but also an extensive oral history that he has collected over many years. By weaving the documentary record together with personal interviews, Wieder portrays the complexities and contradictions of this extraordinary couple and their efforts to navigate a time of great tension, upheaval, and revolutionary hope.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Africa Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Malan
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864864802
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern African Impossible Book Quiz Book written by Robin Malan and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a fanatical motor sport enthusiast, has spent seventeen years writing and compiling this work, which confirms Kyalami as synonymous with motor racing in South Africa.