June 2020 – Page 2 – Jewish Affairs

The Transvaal Automobile Club – Nursery of Jewish Squash Stars

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(Author: Steven Katzew, Vol. 75, #1, Summer 2020) This is a story about a few good men passionate about the game of squash who, through using their own resources and endeavours, guided Johannesburg’s, and perhaps even South Africa’s, best known squash club, the Transvaal Automobile

Sydney Clouts: South African Jewish Poet

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(Author: Marge Clouts, Vol 75, # 1, Summer 2020) ‘...at his best, Sydney Clouts was the best: the most intellectually challenging, formally daring, and aesthetically sophisticated poet of the national corpus.’ This quote comes from Prof Dan Wylie's 2018 critical biography of the poet

Feodora Clouts: “The Grand Old Lady of Cape Town Jewry”

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(Author: Hazel Jungbacke, Vol. 75, #2, Summer 2020) The title of this article is taken from the obituary of Feodora Clouts (1899-1996) by Willie Katz. It well sums up the impact and energy of this remarkable woman, a redoubtable Jewish communal worker, Zionist activist

SA Jewry under Apartheid – A very old debate revisited

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(Author: David Saks, Vol. 75 * No. 1 * Summer 2020) Even before South Africa’s transition from white minority rule to multiracial democracy in April 1994, a veritable flurry of discussion had gotten underway within Jewish circles concerning the community’s political behaviour under apartheid. The

A Wunderkind in Wonderland

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(Author: Douglas Davis, Vol. 75, #1, Summer 2020) I didn’t know what to expect, but there was no doubt that the figure striding confidently into the car park of the Jerusalem Post was Denis Goldberg. He looked completely at ease; as though he belonged;

Did the SAJBD sit on the fence under Apartheid?

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 75, #1, Summer, 2020) Recently, I was interviewed for a seven-part television series, named Legends and Legacy: A History of South African Jews, being prepared with the assistance of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies & Research at the University

Poetry, Chanukah 2019

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Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019 COMICS View the glass case, of doughnuts and baguettes. Behind the cigarettes, of my father’s front store, stood a newsstand, with two comic types. English slim ones Sunny Story booklets. American ones piled high. Captain America

My Friend Joey

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(Author: Clarke Zlotchew, Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019) Joey Clarke had it all. In high school he was an athlete; he was on the fencing team with me, and was a football star as well. In addition, he was an excellent

Herber House: ‘A Hostel for Jewish Children (Part II)

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(Author: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019) This the second part of my paper looking at the establishment, running and final closure of Herber House, a hostel for Jewish schoolchildren in Johannesburg established under the auspices of the SA Board

Dickens, Fagin and Me: A Tale of Two Countries

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(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019) I became aware of Fagin when I was given the story of Oliver Twist in comic book form. This was one of many graphic stories published under the rubric of ‘Classics Illustrated’, a series

The Transvaal Automobile Club – Nursery of Jewish Squash Stars

Sydney Clouts: South African Jewish Poet

Feodora Clouts: “The Grand Old Lady of Cape Town Jewry”

SA Jewry under Apartheid – A very old debate revisited

A Wunderkind in Wonderland

Did the SAJBD sit on the fence under Apartheid?

Poetry, Chanukah 2019

My Friend Joey

Herber House: ‘A Hostel for Jewish Children (Part II)

Dickens, Fagin and Me: A Tale of Two Countries

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