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IDEAS, BOMBS, and BULLETSMy new book about the exciting exploits of brave Indian freedom fighters in London (1905-1910) is now available as a paperback from Bookdepository.com, which delivers to MOST countries: https://www.bookdepository.com/IDEAS-... ... also in e-book format from Kindle store.
My latest book, a travelogue Travels Through Gujarat, Daman, and Diu, is about my travels through a lesser-visited part of western India. It gives local peoples' useful insights on the area's past, present, and future.It is available on Amazon; bookdepository.com, Kindle, lulu.com, and by ordering it from your book store.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR!
READ PLENTY MORE!
Albania is one of Europe's lesser-known countries. My new book Rediscovering Albania introduces the country, its turbulent past and vibrant present.
You can now LISTEN to me, Adam Yamey, talking about my latest book about South Africa https://www.goodreads.com/videos/1024...
My latest book provides a new insight into the political decision-making that led to the legislation that paved the way towards apartheid in South Africa.My book is Soap to Senate: A German Jew at the dawn of apartheid. It describes the life and times of Franz Ginsberg (1862-1936), who migrated from Germany to King Williams Town (Eastern Cape, South Africa) in 1880. There, he became an industrialist, and then a politician (both local and national). He became a senator in 1927, and it was in the Senate that he was most involved in trying to combat the iniquitous law-making that was happening in the 1920s and 1930s.
My latest book, SOAP TO SENATE: A GERMAN JEW AT THE DAWN OF APARTHEID" is out on KINDLE, and will appear soon as a paperback.Read a sample here: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin...
It is the story of a remarkable man. He was a politician who lived in South Africa during the years leading up to apartheid.
Franz Ginsberg left Germany in 1880. He settled in South Africa as an 18-year-old photographer, escaping the restrictions on Jews, only to adopt a homeland with escalating restrictions on ‘black’ and other non-European people. Franz flourished as a manufacturer of a large variety of domestic products, becoming well-known as an industrial pioneer. Soon, his concern for people’s welfare plunged him to politics. From 1927 onwards, as one of the 32 elected Senators of the Union of South Africa, he attempted to mitigate the racist policies that many of his fellow legislators promoted. During his progression from Town Councillor to Senator, Franz questioned the law-making processes that were to lead eventually, after his death in 1936, to the establishment of apartheid. Franz Ginsberg, the author’s great-grandfather, battled for a better world in a time not yet ready for that change - leaving a unique story and legacy on the blueprint of our modern world.
This more than a biography: it offers a new insight into the foundations of apartheid in South Africa.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS to everyone who looks at Goodreads! And all the very best for 2016!
MOST CHILDREN DON'T ASK...In general, children look forwards, not backwards: to the future, not the past. This is a good thing generally speaking. An exception to this is the fact that one’s parents and other elders in the family are younger when you are younger, and often their memories are better when they are in their prime. At a school reunion, the current headmaster at my old school, Highgate in North London, once addressed a group of us ‘old boys, who were in our 50s. One of the things he said, and it is the only one that I remember, was that we who were assembled to listen to him had reached the age when the ‘nostalgia gene’ kicks in.
Some of us who have reached the age where this gene begins to exhibit itself have already lost older close family members or those who remain, are beginning to lose their memories. My mother died over 30 years ago, but fortunately for me a number of my uncles and aunts, as well as my father, have thrived without loss of memory. So, when my ‘nostalgia gene’ kicked in, in my 50s, and I became interested in knowing more about the past of my family, they were able to help me gather information. This allowed me to realise in which directions to further direct my researches.
If only I could turn back the clock and speak to my mother or my grandmother, whom I knew until I was in my teens, how much more I would have learnt. But, being young, I was looking forwards rather than backwards. And, several unrepeatable opportunities were lost.
My advice to anyone, who wants to learn about their family’s past, is to start young. If a relative says something that recalls the past, jot it down – you never know when you will become seriously interested.
When I decided to set down a summary of what I had researched over the years so that if those who follow me ask about my family’s past when I can no longer recall it, I decided that rather than confine myself to my own family’s history, some of which was based on what my elders have told me, I would try to write something with a more general appeal. The result is my latest book “Exodus To Africa”, which I hope will interest people who like me have a Jewish South African heritage. Naturally, I hope that this book will also appeal to a more general audience.
http://www.amazon.com/EXODUS-AFRICA-A... (Kindle)
http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-yamey/e...
(paperback)
INTRODUCING MY LATEST BOOK
Exodus To Africa
From Mosenthal to Mandela …
... a FRESH look at the story of the Jews in South Africa .
Now on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Z...
BUT it will soon be available as a paperback.
FREE ON KINDLE FOR 3 daysAnts in ouzo, bacon on the beach, chlorine and collagen ... these are not the usual ingredients of a holiday in Greece. However, they were what helped make for an unusual series of camping holidays taken by the author, the professor and his wife, during the 1970s and 1980s.
Join Adam Yamey in an intriguing odyssey across a Europe that recent events has changed beyond recognition.
Fully illustrated with the author's photographs, this travelogue reveals something of English eccentricity.
"BETWEEN OLYMPUS AND AEGEAN" is available as a FREE Kindle for next few days: http://www.amazon.com/BETWEEN-OLYMPUS... Please read it, and maybe also review it!
FREE for 5 days on Kindle: "BETWEEN OLYMPUS AND AEGEAN" by Adam Yamey A book about Greece and camping http://www.amazon.com/Between-Olympus... Read it, enjoy it, and please review it!
Yesterday, I presented a lecture about my book From Albania to Sicily at the Albanian Embassy in London. This has been reported on the embassy's website: http://www.albanianembassy.co.uk/ne-a...
Please note the NEW TIME OF ADAM YAMEY's TALK: 5.30 pm - 17.30 hrs
If you will be in Bangalore (India) on MONDAY 20 OCTOBER 2014 at 5.30pm (17.30), Adam Yamey will be giving a talk about
"FROM ALBANIA TO SICILY"
at:
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE,
National Institute of Advanced Studies,
IISC CAMPUS,
MATHIKERE,
BANGALORE 12
If you will be in Bangalore (India) on MONDAY 20 OCTOBER 2014 at 4pm (16.00), Adam Yamey will be giving a talk about"FROM ALBANIA TO SICILY"
at:
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE,
National Institute of Advanced Studies,
IISC CAMPUS,
MATHIKERE,
BANGALORE 12
Please do come and listen!
MAFIA, MACARONI, MUSSOLINI, and ... ALBANIANS
Interested? Then, read a couple of excerpts from my new book From Albania to Sicily by clicking on:
http://www.adamyamey.com/page17.htm
My new book about the descendants of the Albanians who migrated to Sicily during the 15th century, "From Albania to Sicily" is now available as a Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/From-Albania-Si... AND as a paperback: http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-yamey/f...
Hey Adam, thanks for the friendvite. Best of wishes with your writing!
TRUMPET BLOWING TIME! I've just published a new book, Charlie Chaplin waved to me. Basically, it's about me and the travels that I made in my youth. Visit: http://www.yameyamey.blogspot.co.uk/2... to learn more about it.
My friend from school-days, the author Michael Jacobs, died in January this year. I have posted a few of my memories of him on http://yameyamey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/...
Thanks for the friend request. I enjoyed your book Scrabble with Slivovitz so much I bought a paperback copy for my mother and sent it to her. I know she will enjoy it. You have inspired me to seek out more information on the area known as the Balkans. Take Care and thanks again. Mel
Another 5 star review for
SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ -Once upon a time in Yugoslavia
on Amazon:I first bought the Kindle version of this book and then purchased the paperback to send to my mother. Adam Yamey's accounts of pre-war Yugoslavia will resonate with expats and anyone who has traveled through its unspoilt countryside and vibrant towns. Yugoslavia as we knew it is gone forever, but Adam's prose brings it back to life - albeit with tinges of sadness.
See: http://www.amazon.com/Scrabble-With-S...
My book
SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ -Once upon a time in Yugoslavia
is currently available at a reduced price on Kindle until 14 NOV 2013 - I am trying out a 'Kindle Countdown Deal' promotion. This is your chance to save money and also to learn about life in Yugoslavia during the 20 years before its final melt-down.
There is an nteresting interview with Albanian writer Ismail Kadaré on http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...
A great new review of
ALBANIA ON MY MIND
has just appeared on http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-yamey/a...
SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ -Once upon a time in Yugoslavia
has been given 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon and a superbly sympathetic review. See: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scrabble-With...
Read an excerpt from my new book SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ -Once upon a time in Yugoslavia on: http://www.wattpad.com/story/8391951
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Adam Yamey’s publisher has temporarily reduced the price of the KINDLE edition of SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ -Once upon a time in Yugoslavia.
This is to allow more folk to enjoy a literary work that describes life in Yugoslavia during the last years of Marshal Tito’s life as well as during the period leading up to the country’s uncivil series of civil wars that commenced just after 1990. Adam’s richly illustrated text provides a series of unique and often amusing views of life in a country that has been sadly forsaken by history.
Read about the ‘good old days’.
Go for it on:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SCRABBLE-WITH... {UK}
http://www.amazon.com/SCRABBLE-WITH-S... {USA}
or on other local Amazon websites.
Another great review for my ALIWAL. Here it is,copied from Amazon.com:Aliwal provides a fictional view of a Jewish family in South Africa in the nineteenth century. It recreates a fascinating world of which I had been entirely unaware, but in which I have become quite interested due to my recent and fortuitous acquaintance with several South Africans and people of South African background. The issue of how a transplanted person adjusts (and does not adjust) to a radically new environment is particularly well addressed. The protagonist, Heinrich Bergmann, originates in a small German village, yet his ambition (viewed in a positive sense) outgrows his native village. He rises through business success in South Africa and is ultimately brought low -- as much by his own self image as by external events.
The character of Jenny -- Heinrich's wife -- is particularly well drawn. The dénuement, offering an insightful interior view Jenny, provides a strong and poignant finish to the novel.
I have just ordered Yamey's novel the Rogue of Rouxville and look forward to reading it.
SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ -Once upon a time in Yugoslavia is NOW available on KINDLE but with the title "SCRABBLE WITH SLIVOVITZ" See: http://www.amazon.com/SCRABBLE-WITH-S... AND http://www.amazon.co.uk/SCRABBLE-WITH...
See page 22 of http://www.scribd.com/doc/132605330/T... for an interview that I made to promote my book, ALBANIA ON MY MIND. An English translation of this appears on http://www.adamyamey.com/page15.htm
Wishing all my friends on Goodreads HAPPY NOWRUZ/PASSOVER/EASTER
My reading has slowed down a bit because I am in the middle of writing a new book. This time it is about my travels in the former Yugoslavia.
Put yourself into someone else's shoes without getting blisters - read a good novel!
Your review of Noni Jabavu's book is stimulating and well researched. I'll try to get it and reas itSaul
Yesterday, I watched the new film, LINCOLN. If I had known little or nothing about Abraham Lincoln, much of the first 30 or so minutes of the film would have been incomprehensible to me.
The acting, particularly of Daniel Day Lewis, was superb. He portrayed a human and credible Lincoln. Likewise, the portrayal of other personalities by the other actors and actresses came across as being realistic.
However, although there was drama in the events portrayed in the film, the actual drama in the film was limited. The images were hardly necessary. The dialogue would have been well suited for a radio drama.
For my taste, there is far more drama in Gore Vidal's novel based on Lincoln's life. His 'script' would have made for a better film in the right hands (e.g. Spielberg's). There is an old film ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095242/ 1988) based on Vidal's novel, but it, like Spielberg's latest production, is too verbose and insufficient in dramatic action.
But, don't let me put you off. Spielberg's film is gripping enough. To enjoy it, you would be well advised to mug up on your American history general knowledge before reaching the cinema.
Yesterday, I watched the new film, LINCOLN. If I had known little or nothing about Abraham Lincoln, much of the first 30 or so minutes of the film would have been incomprehensible to me.
The acting, particularly of Daniel Day Lewis, was superb. He portrayed a human and credible Lincoln. Likewise, the portrayal of other personalities by the other actors and actresses came across as being realistic.
However, although there was drama in the events portrayed in the film, the actual drama in the film was limited. The images were hardly necessary. The dialogue would have been well suited for a radio drama.
For my taste, there is far more drama in Gore Vidal's novel based on Lincoln's life. His 'script' would have made for a better film in the right hands (e.g. Spielberg's). There is an old film ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095242/ 1988) based on Vidal's novel, bit it, like Spielberg's latest production, is too verbose and insufficient in dramatic action.
But, don't let me put you off. Spielberg's film is gripping enough. To enjoy it, you would be well advised to mug up on your American history general knowledge before reaching the cinema.
I have been recording my trip to India by posting pictures as I have been taking them. The full series may be viewed on http://instagram.com/yameyamey ... I will be adding a few more today!
Happy New Year to all my friends on Goodreads!May 2013 bring you many chapters of contentment!
SEASONS GREETINGS!May the year 2013 be a good one for you!
I hope you will enjoy it.