Bibliography of South African Jewry
Personalities in the Struggle

Alexander, Ray (Simons, Ray Esther)
"Profile: Ray Alexander: back home after 25 years in exile: Labour bulletin interview." SA Labour bulletin 14(7),1990: 76-[77].

Ray Alexander Simons. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [23]-47.

Arenstein, Rowley
Rowley Israel Arenstein. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [371]-402.

SUTTNER, I. Red Rowley and the Zulu Chief. Jerusalem Report 6(20),1996: 32-34. Father figure of Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party.

Auerbach, Franz
Franz Auerbach. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [537]-563.

Bernstein, Hilda and Lionel (Rusty)
BERNSTEIN, H. The world that was ours: the story of Nelson Mandela and the Rivonia trial. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1989, c1967. This is the memoir of the Rivonia trial by Hilda Bernstein, public speaker on behalf of the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid Movement, who has lived a life of exile in Britain since 1964. It includes the story of her illegal escape from South Africa, crossing the frontier to Botswana, after her husband had been acquitted in the Rivonia trial, where Nelson Mandela and others were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Bernstein, Rusty
BERNSTEIN, RUSTY Memory against forgetting: memoirs from a life in South African politics. Viking, 1999.

Bruce, David
David Bruce. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [169]-185.

Chaskalson, Arthur
Arthur Chaskalson. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [325]-340.

Clegg, Johny
Johny Clegg. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [73]-105.

Coleman family
Coleman family. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [186]-217.

First, Ruth
FIRST, R. One hundred and seventeen days: an account of confinement and interrogation under the South African Ninety-Day Detention Law. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1965. 142

PINNOCK, D. Ruth First. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1995. 58 p. : ill. (They fought for freedom).

PINNOCK, D. Writing left: Ruth First and radical South African journalism in the 1950's. [S.l.: s.n.], 1990. 228 leaves : ill., facsims, ports.

SEGAL, R.M. Ruth First. [S.l.: s.n.], 1992. 6 p.

Flior, Jack
Jack Flior. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [289]-305.

Goldberg, Denis
Denis Goldberg. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [463]-496.

Gordimer, Nadine
"A conversation between Nobel Prize Winner, Nadine Gordimer and Natan Sharansky: on freedom, communism and Judaism." Jerusalem Report 2(1),1991: 5-7.

Nadine Gordimer. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [106]-116.

"Nadine Gordimer's moving story." Jewish Affairs 4(1),1949: 55-57. 'The Defeated' in 'The South African Saturday Book' has a Jewish theme.

BAZIN, N. TOPPING & SEYMOUR, M. DALLMAN. eds. Conversations with Nadine Gordimer. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. 321 p. (Literary conversation series).

CLINGMAN, S. The novels of Nadine Gordimer: history from the inside. Johannesburg: Ravan, 1986. 276 p.

CLOUTS, M. "A language in keeping: the works of Nadine Gordimer." Jewish Quarterly 39(1),1992: 28-31.

COOKE, J.W. The novels of Nadine Gordimer: private lives, public landscapes. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

GORDIMER, N. Writing and being. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995. (The Charles Eliot Norton lectures; 1994). 145 p.

HAUGH, R.F. Nadine Gordimer. New York: Twayne Publishers, [1974]. 174 p. : port. (Twayne's world authors series, TWAS 315. South Africa).

LAZAR, K.R. The personal and the political in some of Nadine Gordimer's short stories. Thesis (M.A.) - University of the Witwatersrand, 1988.

NEWMAN, J. Nadine Gordimer. London: Routledge, 1988. 109 p. (Contemporary writers).

PITOCK, T. "Unloved back home." Tikkun 10(3),1995: 76-81.

ROLOFF, B.J. Nadine Gordimer: South African novelist and story writer. Texas: University of Texas, 1962. 142 leaves. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Texas, 1962.

WADE, M. Nadine Gordimer. London: Evans Bros, 1978. 232 p. : port. (Modern African writers).

WAGNER, K.M. Rereading Nadine Gordimer: text and subtext in the novels. South Africa: Maskew Millar Longman, Witwatersrand University Press in conjunction with Indiana Press, 1994

WALTERS, B. Nadine Gordimer with Margaret Walters. Video cassette (VHS) (40 min). Series Writers in conversation; 62. Guardian conversations. London: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1989. 1 Video cassette (VHS)(40 min).

Harber, Anton
Anton Harber. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [153]-165.

Hart, Maxine
Maxine Hart. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [518]-534.

Hellman, Ellen
DUBOW, S. "Wulf Sachs' Black Hamlet: a case of psychic vivisection." African Affairs 92(369), 1993: 519-556. Wulf Sach's psychoanalytic study of a black South African contains biographical information on Sachs and the anthropologist, Ellen Hellman's involvement in radical South African politics in the 40's.

Hirson, Baruch
HIRSON, B. Revolutions in my life. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1995. 365 p. : ports.

Isaacson, Bennie
Bennie Isaacson. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [564]-596.

Kahn, Sam
SAKS, D.Y. Sam Kahn and the Communist Party. Jewish Affairs 51(1), 1996: 25-29. Communist Party of South Africa.

Kasrils, Ronnie
Ronnie Kasrils. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [266]-288.

BELLING, S. 'Hold on for the next two years': an interview with Ronnie Kasrils." Jewish Affairs 49(1),1994: 17-24. South African Deputy Minister of Defence from 1994.

KASRILS, R. 'Armed and dangerous': my undercover struggle against apartheid. Oxford: Heineman Educational, 1993. 374 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map.

Kitson, Norma
KITSON, N. Where sixpence lives. London: Chatto & Windus, 1986. 326 p., [19] p. of plates : ill.

Maisels, Isie
Isie Maisels. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [309]-323.

MAISELS, I.A. A life at law. Foreword by Sydney Kentridge; edited by Keith Maisels and Benjamin Trisk. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, c1998. xii, 338 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.

Manoim, Irwin
Irwin Manoim. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [[142]-152.

Marcus, Gill
Gill Marcus. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [245]-265.

PITOCK, T. "The ANC's reluctant media star: Gill Marcus..." Jerusalem Report 4(11),1993: 32-33.

PITOCK, T. " 'A life of value': Gill Marcus talks to Tod Pitock." Jewish Affairs 48(4),1993: 21-25.

Perlman, Ina
Ina Perlman. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [403]-421.

Podbrey, Pauline
Pauline Podbrey. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [49]-70.

PODBREY, P. White girl in search of the Party. Pietermaritzburg: Hadeda Books, 1993. 204 p. : ill., ports.

Rabinowitz, Ruth
SUGARMAN, M.L. An unlikely Zulu. Jerusalem Report 6(20), 1996: 34. Ruth Rabinowitz represents the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party in parliament.

Sachs, Albie
Albie Sachs. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [343]-369.

SACHS, A. "Being the same and being different." Jewish Quarterly 40(2),1993: 13-16.

SACHS, A. The jail diary of Albie Sachs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. 285 p.

SACHS, A. The soft vengeance of a freedom fighter. Cape Town: David Philip, 1990. 203 p.

Sachs, Wulf
DUBOW, S. "Wulf Sachs' Black Hamlet: a case of psychic vivisection." African Affairs 92(369), 1993: 519-556. Wulf Sach's psychoanalytic study of a black South African contains biographical information on Sachs and the anthropologist, Ellen Hellman's involvement in radical South African politics in the 40's.

Segal, Ronald M.
SEGAL, R.M. Into exile. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. 319 p. Political activist.

SEGAL, R.M. & JACOBSON, D. "Apartheid and South African Jewry: an exchange." Commentary 24(5),1957: 424-431.

Simon, Barney
Barney Simon. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [117]-141.

Born in the RSA: four workshopped plays. Witwatersrand University Press, 1997.

COLLINGS, J. "Barney at the Market." Leadership 4(2), 1985: 123-126. Barney Simon was one of the founders of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.

FOURIE, M. Van smouse tot Shakespeare, 1987. Prisma 2(1),1987: 26. Briefly reviews the history of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, built in 1913 as the Newton Market and changed into the Market Theatre in 1976.

MANIM, M. "Documents of South African theatre: journeys of discovery." South African Theatre Journal 3(1), 1989: 69-80.

NICHOLS, P. Miracles in Hell. Jewish Affairs 53(3), 1998: 67-70. Review.

SCHWARTZ, P. The best of company: the story of Johannesburg's Market theatre. Johannesburg: AD. Donker, 1988. 280 p. : ill.

Slovo, Joe
Joe Slovo. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997 Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [221]-244.

"Joe Slovo: Apartheid's foremost white opponent: the Jerusalem report interview." Jerusalem Report 1(52),1991: 48-49.

HARRIS, L. "'I've got faith in people': Joe Slovo speaks to Leslie Harris." Jewish Affairs 48(4),1993: 15-19. South African Minister of Housing, April 1994-1995.

SLOVO, J. Slovo: the unfinished autobiography. Randburg: Ravan Press, 1995. 253 p. : ill. [Review: Jewish Affairs 51(1), 1996: 73-74].

Slovo, Shawn
Shawn Slovo. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [445]-459.

SLOVO, S. A world apart. London: Faber, 1988. 113 p. : ill. Filmscript based on Shawn Slovo's experiences, when her mother, Ruth First, was the first white woman to be detained under the Ninety-Day Detention Act in 1963.

Suttner, Raymond
Raymond Suttner. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [297]-517.

SUTTNER, I. 'A question of identity': an interview with Raymond Suttner." Jewish Affairs 49(1),1994: 25-27.

SUTTNER, RAYMOND Inside Apartheid\'s prison: notes and letters of struggle.Melbourne:Ocean Press, 2001.

Suzman, Helen
Helen Suzman. In Cutting through the mountain: interviews with South African Jewish activists. Viking Press, 1997. [421]-444.

LEE, R. ed. Values alive: a tribute to Helen Suzman. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1990. 236 p.: ill., facsims., ports. Leader of the Progressive Party.

LEGUM C. "Defender of human rights: Helen Suzman interviewed." The Jewish Quarterly 40(4),1994: 32-33

LEWSEN, P. ed. Helen Suzman's solo years. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball and Ad. Donker, 1991. 276 p.

POGRUND, B. ""The lady from Lithuania": Benjamin Pogrund reviews "In no uncertain terms" by Helen Suzman." The Jewish Quarterly 40(4),1994: 34-35.

SUZMAN, H. In no uncertain terms: memoirs. Johannesburg: J. Ball, 1993. 310 p., [16] p.of plates : ill., ports.

Wolpe, Harold and AnnMarie
WOLPE, A.M. The long way home. Claremont, South Africa: David Philip, 1994. 278 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., facsim, ports. Political activists.