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The Cape Town Intellectuals
Baruch Hirson
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Description for The Cape Town Intellectuals
paperback. Num Pages: 284 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BGH; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 220 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
Ruth Schechter is the story of a brilliant writer and social critic. Hirson explores her eventful life in Cambridge, New York and Cape Town, as she moved between academia and a Jewish milieu which was often conservative but on occasion rather radical. As an adult, she lived most of her life in Cape Town where she encountered powerful establishment figures, and powerless coloureds living in District Six. Among the personalities she met were Frederick Bodmer, Mohandas K Gandhi, Lancelot Hogben, Laurence van der Post, and her eventual husband, Benjamin Farrington. She became a particularly close associate of Olive Schreiner. This ... Read more
Ruth Schechter is the story of a brilliant writer and social critic. Hirson explores her eventful life in Cambridge, New York and Cape Town, as she moved between academia and a Jewish milieu which was often conservative but on occasion rather radical. As an adult, she lived most of her life in Cape Town where she encountered powerful establishment figures, and powerless coloureds living in District Six. Among the personalities she met were Frederick Bodmer, Mohandas K Gandhi, Lancelot Hogben, Laurence van der Post, and her eventual husband, Benjamin Farrington. She became a particularly close associate of Olive Schreiner. This ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780850365009
SKU
V9780850365009
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Reviews for The Cape Town Intellectuals
"As social and literary history The Cape Town Intellectuals should influence any subsequent narratives about South Africa's political formulation. From the foreword by Professor Tom Lodge"