Recently, a biography from the pen of the American Jew, Alan Wieder, appeared with the title Ruth F

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Recently, a biography from the pen of the American Jew, Alan Wieder, appeared with the title Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the war against apartheid (Monthly Review Press). It tells the fascinating story of how two Lithuanian Jews - even from Johannesburg but later from London and several African cities - a leading role in the attack on the former African Government played. Over the past 24 hours I have the book in one sitting read and would like to give my impressions here.
In general it is not politically correct to the ethnicity of Jews to refer to, but in this case highlights the author has in his preface that he initially into First and Slovo became interested because of his and their common roots in Eastern Europe and Jewishness:
"As I worked on teacher stories between 1999 and 2008, I felt a growing camaraderie with First and Slovo. Both Ruth and Joe's roots ulcers Eastern European and Jewish, as are mine; Both ulcers, at best, non-Practicing Jews, as am I; Both ulcers, like me, politically left. "
In summary, one can book as a hagiography or obsequious homage to Ruth First and Joe Slovo described. I was already familiar with the roles of the "liberation struggle", but Wieder reveals both their personal geskiedenissse as their political actions, how do you for quite a number of new insights into the sad story of our Afrikaner defeat care. It also spoke to me personally, since my late father and his African friends in the forties on the Wits campus how do you a futile battle against Slovo and Wolpe argued - hindsight speaking. At the end of his life he railed against bitter "the African who had so many chances and blew it," or "to that devilish Slovo surrendered". Similarly, as a student at Wits thirty years ago, I left a lot of the Jewish culture in which the book is there, and even the experienced writer of the preface, the Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, once or twice coincidentally met. Gordimer is equally Lithuanian-Jewish descent, and was friends with "those wonderful Slovo's", as she elsewhere in a newspaper interview to Joe and Ruth referred.
Joe Slovo is not even South African-born, but in the village in Lithuania Obelei then under Russian how do you influence