(Author: Natalie Knight, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) When I interviewed Herman Wald in his studio in 1970, three weeks before his sudden death at the age of 64, I was intrigued to find an artist who was conflicted about religion. He was
(Author: Ute Ben Yosef, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) On 2 June 2011, Deneys Kottler and Louis Wald met for the first time at Louis’s home in Finchley, London. Both are sons of great South African Jewish sculptors and both had grown up,
(Author: Norman Sher, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) EDITOR’S NOTE : In our Chanukah 2011 issue, we published Norman Sher’s account of his years as a member of the Department of Justice Prosecutor’s Staff in Johannesburg during the early 1960s. In this follow-up
(Author: Sandra Braude, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) My arrival in Israel was something of a culture shock. Things here are very different from Sydney, where life can be described as first-world-laid-back. It’s nothing like that here, where the atmosphere and everything about
(Author: Colin Plen, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) My friend Solly Yellin, of blessed memory, was a voracious reader. When he heard that the great writer James A. Michener had written a book about Poland, he waited excitedly for it to arrive in
(Author: Edna Bradlow, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) Feature image: Cousins Eli Stein and Eli Katz, Cape Town, 1912 As Joachim Pinz notes,1 Jews have always been immigrants, forced at times to leave centuries-old homelands, rebuilding their lives. Rabbonim ensured that Jewish
(Author: Gita Gordon, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) The latest royal wedding has brought back memories of another royal occasion, in a time and place far removed from 21st Century London. At that time I was three years old, so perhaps “memories” is
(An interview with Michael Schneider, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) Editor’s note: Born in the Boland, and long before his distinguished career in Jewish communal affairs, Michael Schneider, Secretary General Emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, played a dramatic but comparatively little-known role in
(Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) Dr Irving Lissoos, who passed away in Johannesburg on 30 July 2011at the age of 74, was a contributor to Jewish Affairs of many years standing, writing on such diverse subjects as South African Jewish Nobel laureates, Jewish
(Author: Sheila Saffer, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) It has always puzzled me that Kol Nidrei occupies pride of place in the whole line-up of prayers of our High Holy Days – Yamim Nora’im – the period from our Jewish New Year to