A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa – Milton Shain humour About the author

About the author

For most of his life

The Weavers of Trautenau elucidates the limits and possibilities of social relations inside camps and the challenges of moral and emotional repair in the face of indescribable loss during the Holocaust

alongside contemporary classics that will leave you chuckling and nodding in agreement

knitting and sewing but also looked at the success and failures

A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa – Milton Shain humour About the authorThe interwar years were a tumultuous time in South Africa. The effects of the worldwide economic slump gave rise to a huge number of poor whites and fed the growth of a militant and aggressive Afrikaner nationalism that often took its lead from Nazi Germany. For a great number of whites, both English and Afrikaans speakers, the Jew was an unwelcome and disturbing addition to society. A Perfect Storm explores the growth of antisemitism in South Africa