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Zakhor
HistoryFigure1930–2018

Region: Afrique du Sud (Randfontein, Johannesburg)

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South African documentary photographer renowned for his chronicle of South African society under apartheid. His Jewish identity is central to his work: the antisemitism he experienced made him sensitive to the humiliation suffered by Black people. Numerous exhibited books (including at the Jewish Museum of New York).

A book yet to be written

This Great Book has not been written yet. You can start it right here: Claude composes an original work from the archive pieces in the corpus and from web research, then enriches it with every new source contributed.

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document David Goldblatt give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

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