He Does Not Die a Death of Shame is a novel which compares and contrasts anti-Semitism in 20th -century Europe with apartheid in South Africa. It attempts to illustrate the similarities between the persecution of the Jews in Europe and the oppression of Blacks in South Africa and to describe the influence of the suffering of one generation upon the development of the following generation. The story spans two generations from 1908 to 1972. It follows the lives of two young men, one white, o...