July 2018 – Jewish Affairs

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Kathy Munro Elaine Katz (1935-2017) Dr Elaine Katz, long serving member of the Editorial Board of Jewish Affairs, author, academic, fine researcher, scholar and a close friend and colleague passed away after a short illness on 21 February 2017. Elaine was a South African historian

Eddy Magid, the first Israeli Tanks Corps and the capture of Beersheba

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(Authors: Michael and Suzanne Belling, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) EDITOR’S NOTE: Eddy Magid was one of over 800 South Africans (mainly, although not exclusively, from the Jewish community) who volunteered to fight for the new-born Jewish state in the 1948 Israeli

Hashem’s Emissary heals Israel’s conflicts

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(Author: Abigail Sarah Bagraim, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) A central tenet of Judaism is that Abraham is regarded as the father of the Jewish people, and that through him and his descendants a covenant was transmitted to future generations. We first

“For the greater good of society”: Five remarkable Cape Town Women

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2018) There are two well-known stereotypes of Jewish women - the first deserves to be valued above rubies, because she works her fingers to the bone supporting her husband.i Up before dawn, she toils till late

Unlikely Vigilantes – Extra-judicial responses to Nazi movements in South Africa

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(Author: David Saks, Vol. 72, No. 1, Pesach 2018) During the last decades of the 19th Century, the South African Jewish community embarked on a sustained period of dramatic growth, primarily as a result of immigration from Eastern Europe. One of the unfortunate, if probably

Poetry, Pesach 2018

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(Poetry, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2017) BONNY BROOK In cold weather Summer or winter Day or night A residence of delight Layout, stylistic music, Short strolls to the beach Memories, reveries, Dimmed lights Once again hearing Those intermittent calls The dash and splash

Helen Suzman Blue Plaque unveiling

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(Author: Kathy Munro, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2018) 7 November 2017 marked the centenary of the Russian Revolution, and also of the birth of one of South Africa’s greatest 20th Century daughters, Helen Suzman. On Friday, 3 November, a small group gathered to remember

Jews and the formation of the South African newspaper industry

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(Author: Irwin Manoim, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2018) Do Jews control the newspapers? Type that question into Google and you will enter a netherworld of conspiracies in which the ‘Jewish’ media magnates Anton Rupert, Trevor Manuel, Harry Oppenheimer and Alec Erwin conspired with

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part III)

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(Author: Don Krausz, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2018) Shortly after our arrival in Ravensbruck, a prisoner called Riva Fridova approached my mother. Riva was a Mishling, a person who was half Jewish, and the red triangle that she wore above her prison number meant

Butch Ben Yok

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MILTON “BUTCH” BOTTGER ( BUTCH BEN YOK) - Radio Operator 3RD DECEMBER 1924 - 29 TH OCTOBER 2008 (Author: Zan Swartzberg, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) In Air Force and military circles in Israel, if you ask who may MILTON BOTTGER be,

Elaine Katz

Eddy Magid, the first Israeli Tanks Corps and the capture of Beersheba

Hashem’s Emissary heals Israel’s conflicts

“For the greater good of society”: Five remarkable Cape Town Women

Unlikely Vigilantes – Extra-judicial responses to Nazi movements in South Africa

Poetry, Pesach 2018

Helen Suzman Blue Plaque unveiling

Jews and the formation of the South African newspaper industry

Child of the Concentration Camp (Part III)

Butch Ben Yok

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