"Kaplan Centre[,] Jewish Studies & Research, University of Cape Town". Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The South African context of the Schrire manuscripts / Gwynne Schrire and Carmel Schrire -- Diary of Reb Yehuda Leib Schrire, 1892-1893 / translated [from pre-Ben Yehuda Hebrew] by Michal Solomon ; transcribed, edited and annotated by Gwynne Schrire and Carmel Schrire -- Tolada : history and occurrences, causes and adventures / Yehuda Leib Schrire ; translated [from pre-Ben Yehuda Hebrew] by Devis Iosifzon ; edited and annotated by Devis Iosifzon, Gwynne Schrire and Carmel Schrire -- Reminiscences, partly biography and partly people I have met : being the memoir of Harry Schrire / Harry Schrire ; annotated and edited by Gwynne Schrire and Carmel Schrire -- A discourse on the authors of the Schrire manuscripts / Carmel Schrire -- Appendices: Genealogical table of Yehuda Leib Schrire / compiled by Paul Cheifitz ; Writings and notebooks of Yehuda Leib Schrire / compiled by Carmel Schrire and translated by Andrew Plaks ; Artwork of Yehuda Leib Schrire / transcribed, translated and annotated by Devisw Iosifzon ; Certificate presented to Mrs G. Schrire, c. 1931-32.
Summary:
"This book contains three previously unpublished autobiographical works: a diary, a poem and a memoir. The first two were written by Yehuda Leib Schrire (1851-1912), and the third, by his son, Harry Nathan (1895-1980). These texts mainly cover the period 1892-1913, and are set in a number of countries, including Lithuania, Germany, Holland, England and South Africa. Few of the early immigrants to South Africa were writers, let alone poets, and the social history here embellishes and enlivens the picture of South African Jewish communities at the turn of the twentieth century."--Page 1.
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