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From: Elaine Windrich <ewind2@yahoo.com>
List Editor: Colleen Vasconcellos <colleen@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Obit: Hilda Bernstein, 1915-2006: reply
Author's Subject: Obit: Hilda Bernstein, 1915-2006: reply
Date Written: Sun, 17 Sep 2006
Date Posted: Mon, 17 Sep 2006 22:35:22 -0400

Her books are an invaluable source for the social and political lives of the
South African Left in the 20th century.  Especially _The Rift_, for an account
of South Africans in exile from the 1950s on, which includes interviews with
some 300 of them, a sort of Soth African "diasphora" in reverse.  The books
about the Rivonia trial and _The World That was Ours_ are also wonderful
portrayals of that period.  And the fictional account of torture and repression
during the apartheid era (_Death Is Part of the Process_) is a very
accomplished thriller as well as a revelation of the human rights abuses at
that time.

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