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can someone get the links in the fiction section working and the pages to atualy be made. fwed66 17:33(GMT) 5 june 2006

The current wording is intended to imply that Gordimer's mother was not Jewish, which is untrue. It is furthermore untrue that she was "raised a Christian," as the article currently states. On page 33 of "No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer," Ronald Suresh Roberts writes "Gordimer's mother was named Nan (her real name was Hannah, née Myers). Her father went by Isidore Gordimer... Isidore and Nan were both products of the large Jewish migration to South Africa in the last decades of the nineteenth century (he from the Eastern European Pale, she from London)." Much of the chapter entitled "Wellsprings: Ancestry" deals with the Jewish backgrounds of both sides of Nadine Gordimer's family. She and her sister did attend a Catholic parochial school, where "Nadine and Betty were the only Jews" (Roberts, page 47), but she is not a Christian. In an article on Gordimer in "Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century," Marcia Leveson quotes Gordimer as saying "I have never denied that I'm Jewish and have no desire to deny it. For me, being Jewish is like being black: you simply are. To want to deny it is simply disgusting." Jinfo 06:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"She was robbed on 26 October 2006 by three men in her home in Parktown, Johannesburg, and was assaulted after she refused to hand over her wedding ring. [1] She has been adamant in stating however that this attack will not alter her previously expressed beliefs about the ills of apartheid." What the . . . Why would it alter her beliefs about apartheid? This doesn't belong in this article, any way, shape, or form. I'm taking the whole thing out. It's horrible to hear that she was attacked, but this is not encyclopedia information. Whatever is being implied in the back and forth, putting in the word "black" men and taking it back out and then, apparently, someone thought they could justify the inclusion of this information with relevance to her political views!! -It's preposterous and offensive.DianaW 04:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]