Deborah Posel is a South African sociologist who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town. She was the founding director of two prominent interdisciplinary research institutes, UCT's Institute for Humanities in Africa and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.

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• Maps Family treePart IChapter 1 LongingChapter 2 On the moveChapter 3 The glitter of goldChapter 4 Conversations with CarruthersChapter 5 Living with lackChapter 6 A structure of lifeChapter 7 The farribelChapter 8 The ticketChapter 9 Two more fragmentsChapter 10 Many lives are possibleChapter 11 Ordinary storiesChapter 12 The myth of Jewish exceptionalismPart IIChapter 13 ShtetlChapter 14 Prospects in the Pale of SettlementChapter 15 Schisms and fault-linesChapter 16 Posels in PumpianChapter 17 Posel prospectsChapter 18 Sitting and standingChapter 19 TaverningChapter 20 ItsykChapter 21 SinglesChapter 22 Pushy daughtersChapter 23 Stille ChuppahChapter 24 Conversion to ChristianityChapter 25 Margin of marginsChapter 26 A boy childChapter 27 Veins of violencePart IIIChapter 28 Leaving PumpianChapter 29 At seaChapter 30 ‘They came with nothing’Chapter 31 Those who stayedChapter 32 The ‘East’ of the ‘West’Part IVChapter 33 RatsChapter 34 24 June 1902Chapter 35 Towards District SixChapter 36 A shtetl that wasn’tChapter 37 ‘Squat-bodied’Chapter 38 ShapeshiftingChapter 39 At riskChapter 40 Upstanding workChapter 41 28 Longmarket StreetChapter 42 ChoicesChapter 43 CarrierChapter 44 SmousChapter 45 Good eggs and bad eggsChapter 46 Nothing ventured, nothing gainedChapter 47 Business in the mixChapter 48 Ways of womenChapter 49 Love and marriageChapter 50 One of those who frozeChapter 51 What’s left behindChapter 52 Mothers of lossChapter 53 Longing to be let inChapter 54 A colonial educationChapter 55 Carruthers BeattieChapter 56 What a shamePart VChapter 57 BrothersChapter 58 Modern JewsChapter 59 MoneyChapter 60 ‘Like insects to the light’Chapter 61 ‘Jewburg’Chapter 62 Chatzkel’s luckChapter 63 Whose goldChapter 64 Jews and ‘the Blacks’Chapter 65 Chatzkel on the moveChapter 66 Obscene extremesChapter 67 A deferent retortChapter 68 FerreirastownChapter 69 Prospering in FerreirastownChapter 70 The farribelChapter 71 MaxPart VIChapter 72 A Johannesburg manChapter 73 ‘A man and four girls’Chapter 74 ‘Little Vienna’Chapter 75 Jews in the Austro-Hungarian EmpireChapter 76 Czernowitz and the JewsChapter 77 Bakers for the emperorChapter 78 Family tiesChapter 79 LeavingChapter 80 Lourenco MarquesChapter 81 DoornfonteinChapter 82 World War 1Chapter 83 A darker world Chapter 84 CernautiChapter 85 A Johannesburg ‘spinster’Part VIIChapter 86 Marriage Chapter 87 Jewish suburbiaChapter 88 Set in StoneChapter 89 ArchivesChapter 90 Farribels – againChapter 91 Dear MauriceNotesBibliographyAcknowledgements

Deborah Posel is a South African sociologist who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town. She was the founding director of two prominent interdisciplinary research institutes, UCT's Institute for Humanities in Africa and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.

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• Maps Family treePart IChapter 1 LongingChapter 2 On the moveChapter 3 The glitter of goldChapter 4 Conversations with CarruthersChapter 5 Living with lackChapter 6 A structure of lifeChapter 7 The farribelChapter 8 The ticketChapter 9 Two more fragmentsChapter 10 Many lives are possibleChapter 11 Ordinary storiesChapter 12 The myth of Jewish exceptionalismPart IIChapter 13 ShtetlChapter 14 Prospects in the Pale of SettlementChapter 15 Schisms and fault-linesChapter 16 Posels in PumpianChapter 17 Posel prospectsChapter 18 Sitting and standingChapter 19 TaverningChapter 20 ItsykChapter 21 SinglesChapter 22 Pushy daughtersChapter 23 Stille ChuppahChapter 24 Conversion to ChristianityChapter 25 Margin of marginsChapter 26 A boy childChapter 27 Veins of violencePart IIIChapter 28 Leaving PumpianChapter 29 At seaChapter 30 ‘They came with nothing’Chapter 31 Those who stayedChapter 32 The ‘East’ of the ‘West’Part IVChapter 33 RatsChapter 34 24 June 1902Chapter 35 Towards District SixChapter 36 A shtetl that wasn’tChapter 37 ‘Squat-bodied’Chapter 38 ShapeshiftingChapter 39 At riskChapter 40 Upstanding workChapter 41 28 Longmarket StreetChapter 42 ChoicesChapter 43 CarrierChapter 44 SmousChapter 45 Good eggs and bad eggsChapter 46 Nothing ventured, nothing gainedChapter 47 Business in the mixChapter 48 Ways of womenChapter 49 Love and marriageChapter 50 One of those who frozeChapter 51 What’s left behindChapter 52 Mothers of lossChapter 53 Longing to be let inChapter 54 A colonial educationChapter 55 Carruthers BeattieChapter 56 What a shamePart VChapter 57 BrothersChapter 58 Modern JewsChapter 59 MoneyChapter 60 ‘Like insects to the light’Chapter 61 ‘Jewburg’Chapter 62 Chatzkel’s luckChapter 63 Whose goldChapter 64 Jews and ‘the Blacks’Chapter 65 Chatzkel on the moveChapter 66 Obscene extremesChapter 67 A deferent retortChapter 68 FerreirastownChapter 69 Prospering in FerreirastownChapter 70 The farribelChapter 71 MaxPart VIChapter 72 A Johannesburg manChapter 73 ‘A man and four girls’Chapter 74 ‘Little Vienna’Chapter 75 Jews in the Austro-Hungarian EmpireChapter 76 Czernowitz and the JewsChapter 77 Bakers for the emperorChapter 78 Family tiesChapter 79 LeavingChapter 80 Lourenco MarquesChapter 81 DoornfonteinChapter 82 World War 1Chapter 83 A darker world Chapter 84 CernautiChapter 85 A Johannesburg ‘spinster’Part VIIChapter 86 Marriage Chapter 87 Jewish suburbiaChapter 88 Set in StoneChapter 89 ArchivesChapter 90 Farribels – againChapter 91 Dear MauriceNotesBibliographyAcknowledgements

Deborah Posel is a South African sociologist who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town. She was the founding director of two prominent interdisciplinary research institutes, UCT's Institute for Humanities in Africa and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.

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• Maps Family treePart IChapter 1 LongingChapter 2 On the moveChapter 3 The glitter of goldChapter 4 Conversations with CarruthersChapter 5 Living with lackChapter 6 A structure of lifeChapter 7 The farribelChapter 8 The ticketChapter 9 Two more fragmentsChapter 10 Many lives are possibleChapter 11 Ordinary storiesChapter 12 The myth of Jewish exceptionalismPart IIChapter 13 ShtetlChapter 14 Prospects in the Pale of SettlementChapter 15 Schisms and fault-linesChapter 16 Posels in PumpianChapter 17 Posel prospectsChapter 18 Sitting and standingChapter 19 TaverningChapter 20 ItsykChapter 21 SinglesChapter 22 Pushy daughtersChapter 23 Stille ChuppahChapter 24 Conversion to ChristianityChapter 25 Margin of marginsChapter 26 A boy childChapter 27 Veins of violencePart IIIChapter 28 Leaving PumpianChapter 29 At seaChapter 30 ‘They came with nothing’Chapter 31 Those who stayedChapter 32 The ‘East’ of the ‘West’Part IVChapter 33 RatsChapter 34 24 June 1902Chapter 35 Towards District SixChapter 36 A shtetl that wasn’tChapter 37 ‘Squat-bodied’Chapter 38 ShapeshiftingChapter 39 At riskChapter 40 Upstanding workChapter 41 28 Longmarket StreetChapter 42 ChoicesChapter 43 CarrierChapter 44 SmousChapter 45 Good eggs and bad eggsChapter 46 Nothing ventured, nothing gainedChapter 47 Business in the mixChapter 48 Ways of womenChapter 49 Love and marriageChapter 50 One of those who frozeChapter 51 What’s left behindChapter 52 Mothers of lossChapter 53 Longing to be let inChapter 54 A colonial educationChapter 55 Carruthers BeattieChapter 56 What a shamePart VChapter 57 BrothersChapter 58 Modern JewsChapter 59 MoneyChapter 60 ‘Like insects to the light’Chapter 61 ‘Jewburg’Chapter 62 Chatzkel’s luckChapter 63 Whose goldChapter 64 Jews and ‘the Blacks’Chapter 65 Chatzkel on the moveChapter 66 Obscene extremesChapter 67 A deferent retortChapter 68 FerreirastownChapter 69 Prospering in FerreirastownChapter 70 The farribelChapter 71 MaxPart VIChapter 72 A Johannesburg manChapter 73 ‘A man and four girls’Chapter 74 ‘Little Vienna’Chapter 75 Jews in the Austro-Hungarian EmpireChapter 76 Czernowitz and the JewsChapter 77 Bakers for the emperorChapter 78 Family tiesChapter 79 LeavingChapter 80 Lourenco MarquesChapter 81 DoornfonteinChapter 82 World War 1Chapter 83 A darker world Chapter 84 CernautiChapter 85 A Johannesburg ‘spinster’Part VIIChapter 86 Marriage Chapter 87 Jewish suburbiaChapter 88 Set in StoneChapter 89 ArchivesChapter 90 Farribels – againChapter 91 Dear MauriceNotesBibliographyAcknowledgements