Call me master

Call me master is a collection of twenty anecdotes, humerously mirroring Windhoek's society of the 1950s in then South West Africa.
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Title: Call me master
Author: Olga Levinson
Illustrations: Wolf von Loeben
Publisher: Central News Agency Ltd.
South Africa, 1958
Original cloth binding, original dustcover, 15 x 22 cm, 164 pages, several scetches

Condition:

Good. Dustcover worn, inside clean.
Rare book.

About: Call me master

Olga Levinson (1918-1989), author of these humorous anecdotes about Windhoek's society in the 1950s first encountered South Africa's seemingly provincial capital through marriage in the 1940s. She came from cosmopolitan Johannesburg, was the scion of a wealthy Jewish family, and although she and her husband, mining and finance magnate Jack Louis Levinson (1910–1989), undoubtedly belonged to Windhoek's elite, she certainly noticed a certain backwardness compared to South Africa's metropoles. However, since it is documented that Olga Levinson loved her adopted homeland with its diverse population groups, with all its shortcomings and social peculiarities, today's readers should also approach the anecdotes in "Call Me Master" with an open mind, especially since the author often makes fun of herself. The illustrations in this book are by Wolf von Loeben (1911–1987).

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