<p>There is a vast and varied literature on the formation of 19th-century Jewish diasporic communities worldwide. Now, added to this are the previously unpublished autobiographical works of two members of the Schrire family, which form the core of The Reb and the Rebel, mainly covering the period 1892-1913. They comprise a diary, a poem and a memoir. The first two, written by Reb Yehuda Leib Schrire (1851-1912), chart his journey through a number of countries, including Lithuania, Holland, England and South Africa. The third is by his son, Harry Nathan (1895-1980). The social history within these documents paints a lively picture of South African Jewish communities at the turn of the 19th century. They reveal tiny details of shipboard life below deck; major issues of religious belief and practice in Lithuanian shtetls, Johannesburg goldfields and District Six homes; and global issues of mass migration, pandemics and war. They show how community formation in Cape Town replicates the orthodoxy of der alte heym, even as the new generation is integrated into a life undreamed of in the Old Country. Analyses of the contexts and authors, together with Appendices which include a genealogy, glossary and catalogued artworks, combine here to make the South African Jewish past come alive.</p>

The Reb and the Rebel: Jewish Narratives in South Africa, 1892-1913

Biographies & Memoirs

Schrire, Carmel

Schrire, Gwynne

Historical

University of Cape Town Press

<p>In Digging Through Darknes, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. Tracking the broad sweep of European expansion into Africa, Australia, and the Pacific, Schrire focuses on the evidence unearthed in archaeological sites, leading the reader through a wealth of strata and artifacts, to see how inferences may be drawn from heaps of broken bones and stones. This interweaving gives voice not only to the literate colonists but also to illiterate native people who endured dispossession in silence.</p>

Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Univ of Virginia Pr

A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire’s Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution, and science and romance to show how we create the past and understand the present.Schrire recounts the significance of the palaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey, and Glynn Isaac addressing a famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday of apartheid. She sets pioneering exploration of the globe against archaeological surveys and romantic quests in the African desert and contrasts the dark days of colonial slavery at the Cape with the bright prospects of Nelson Mandela’s legacy there.

Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope (Glynn Isaac Memorial Lecture, 3Rd.)

History

Africa

University of Virginia Press

Providing an unconventional and profusely illustrated presentation of the diverse themes that constitute the past at the southern tip of Africa, this book intermeshes human and carnivore evolution, colonial slavery and apartheid, and science and romance. The palaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey, and Glynn Isaac are lined up against a famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday of apartheid. Pioneering exploration of the globe is set against archaeological surveys and romantic quests in the African desert, and the dark days of colonial slavery at the Cape are contrasted with the bright prospects of Nelson Mandela's legacy in South Africa today.

Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope (Third Glynn Isaac Memorial Lecture, June 1999)

University of Capetown Press

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