(Author: Astrid Starck1, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010. First published Jewish Affairs, Winter, 1995. Translated from the French by Karen-Anne Durbach) Editor’s Note: Many of the stories discussed in this essay have been published in English translation, together with a detailed introduction to the
(Author: Joseph Sherman, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2020/First published in Jewish Affairs, Summer 1994) Truth shall spring out of the earth: and righteousness shall look down from heaven. On such assurances of God’s justice, a leitmotif of the Psalms, was the faith of Eastern
(Author: Joseph Sherman, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) (First published Jewish Affairs, Spring 1993) The history of the Yiddish press in South Africa goes back over a century. The country’s first Yiddish newspaper, Der Afrikaner Israelit, was found in Johannesburg in 1890 by Nehemiah
(Author: Joseph Sherman, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Editor’s Note: This essay, suitably abridged, by the late Dr. Joseph Sherman first appeared in A World Too Wide: Essays on Libraries and Other Themes in Honour of Reuben Musiker (edited by Dr. Sherman, University of
(Author: Suzanne Belling, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Susan Woolf is known as Mathabo (Mother of Happiness) by the people and taxi commuters of the streets of South Africa to whom she has introduced a concept that will change their lives. She lives up
(Author: Marcia Leveson, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2020) In her recent autobiographical account, A Memoir of Love and Madness (2009), Rahla Xeneopolous wrote: “What is it with Jews and wandering? Like the lost tribes, we’re scattered and flung to the four corners of the
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2020) The downside of Israel’s hotels being so full throughout the year, Reeva Forman quips, is that it is no longer possible to obtain from them the discounted rates that were available to her tour groups a
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Jews living in the British Colonies in the 19th Century were generally proud to be British citizens. They appreciated being able to live in peace, religious tolerance and security and were satisfied to accept the institutions
(Author: Milton Shain, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Feature image: Mendel Kaplan Kaplan Receives an honorary doctorate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof Don Patinkin Editor’s note: International Jewry, and South African Jewry in particular, were stunned by the sudden death of Mendel Kaplan on
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Feature image: Engraved silver salver presented to Bertha Solomon, MP, in the collection of the SAJBD – Cape Despite the losses incurred through the centuries from pogroms, persecutions, book burnings and looting, Jews have always