My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah by Denis Hirson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah Author: Denis Hirson Narrator: Denis Hirson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A bestselling South African writer known for tackling history and memory finally makes his American debut Witty and deeply poignant, My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a breathtaking account of one man being confronted by his past and, ultimately, how his daughter proved to be the key in understanding his own father. Recreating 1960s Johannesburg through his adolescent eyes, bestselling South African author Denis Hirson gradually reveals the details of his extraordinary thirteenth birthday as he explores the familial and political divisions in Apartheid South Africa that weighed on him and his developing consciousness of his Jewish heritage. My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a gem of a book about becoming a man. It's also a valuable account of a forgotten time of white, Jewish activists, their families, their community, and most importantly, their children, who had to stumble through life in the aftermath of their commitment to racial justice.