Dan Jacobson
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Dan Jacobson (7 March 1929 – 12 June 2014) was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist.
Books
- The Trap (1955)
- A Dance in the Sun (1956)
- The Price of Diamonds (1958)
- The Zulu and the Zeide (1959)
- The Evidence of Love (1960)
- No Further West (1961)
- Time of Arrival (1963) (essays)
- Beggar My Neighbor (1964) (short stories)
- The Beginners (1966)
- Through the Wilderness and Other Stories (1968)
- The Rape of Tamar (1970)
- The Boss (1971)
- Inklings (1973) (short stories)
- The Wonder-Worker (1973)
- The Confessions of Josef Baisz (1979)
- The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and Its God (1982) (non-fiction)
- Time and Time Again: Autobiographies (1985)
- Her Story (1987)
- Adult Pleasures: Essays on Writers and Readers (1989)
- Hidden in the Heart (1991)
- The God-Fearer (1992)
- The Electronic Elephant (1994)
- Heshel's Kingdom (1998)
- A Mouthful of Glass – translated and edited from Henk van Woerden's Een Mond vol Glas (2000)
- All for Love (2005)
- Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007) (Illustrated by Barry Moser)
Cited in others' works
At the conclusion of his book Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald has his eponymous protagonist take from his rucksack a copy of Dan Jacobson's Heshel's Kingdom (1998), the account of Jacobson's journey in the 1990s to Lithuania in search of traces of his grandfather Heshel's world. The orthodox rabbi Heshel Melamed's sudden death in 1919 had provided an opportunity for his widow and nine children to leave Lithuania for South Africa, which, in light of events two decades later, ironically, had been a gift of life. "On his travels in Lithuania Jacobson finds scarcely any trace of his forebears, only signs everywhere of the annihilation from which Heshel's weak heart had preserved his immediate family when it stopped beating."
