of the white community. privileged community. ..privileged community in south africa, and yet, as we said, your family were very keen opponents of apartheid, and you are and so on and so forth. do you feel guilt on the one hand that you are the beneficiary of white privilege? does yourjewishness have a role to play? one of the things about white guilt, let it be said, is how rare it is for people who really feel badly in themselves about what happened. there are remarkable people who are tortured by the sense of. there s a sense of responsibility for it, but i think there s a. for me, there s a sense of responsibility to the community within which i work, which is the community of artists, actors, performers. and you re very away. but yourjewishness is significant, isn t it? let me tell you, judy hecker, who co curated one of your exhibitions at the museum of modern art in new york about a decade ago, said, there s no question
one of the things about white guilt, let it be said, is how rare it is for people who really feel badly in themselves about what happened. there are remarkable people who are tortured by the sense of. there s a sense of responsibility for it, but i think there s a. for me, there s a sense of responsibility to the community in which i work, which is the community of artists, actors, performers. which is the community of and you re very away. which is the community of but yourjewishness is significant, isn t it? let me tell you, judy hecker, who cocreated one of your exhibitions at the museum of modern art in new york about a decade ago, said, there s no question william kentridge is influenced by hisjewishness. the notion of the oppressed and the oppressor the holocaust must have something to do with that. is that right? i think that there was. within the anti apartheid struggle in south africa, there was always overrepresentation numerically ofjews involved both in the leadership