Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian

by Emanuel Derman

Brief Hours and Weeks is the author's account of growing up in a small, tightly knit, first-generation Polish-Jewish community in Cape Town in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

Observing through at first naive and then later more sophisticated eyes, he describes his childhood and youth in a protective off-the-boat immigrant Jewish family in very British-Commonwealth South Africa as apartheid becomes increasingly coercive.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1068649100
• ISBN13: 9781068649103
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: LML Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"