Brief Hours and Weeks

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brief Hours and Weeks </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through vivid and candid personal stories he brings to life a time place culture people and set of mores that no longer exist. At 21 he leaves Africa to study in America.</span></p>