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(Author: David Saks, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) At the beginning of the last century, the proportion of world Jewry whose home language was English was little more than 5%. Perhaps half of the total would have been living on the European mainland,
(Author: Mervyn Smith, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) On a cold Cape winter’s night in May 1998 a Muslim community radio station, Radio 786, broadcast a programme entitled ‘Zionism and the State of Israel – an in-depth analysis’. This featured an interview with UK
(Author: Natalie Knight, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) My first encounter with Esmé Berman was when I was asked to interview her for a Jewish newspaper. Her reputation preceded her – art historian, critic, lecturer broadcaster and the forerunner in the research and
(Author: Dovidi Fachler, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) In 1992, twenty three years after being branded a terrorist John Schlapobersky, a clinical psychologist working out of his Highgate practice in northwest London, was finally allowed to visit his native South Africa. Looking back
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) Jews probably lived in Britain from as early as mid-Roman times. After the destruction of the Second Temple in CE 70, the Roman world was flooded with Jewish slaves and it is likely that a
(Author: Gloria Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) This is the fourth and final part of a four-part essay on Isaac Bashevis Singer, the first three having since appeared in Jewish Affairs. Before analysing the several plots and stylistic features of the novel,
(Author: Leah Nasson, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” says Mirek, a character in Milan Kundera’s 1978 novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. He says this, Kundera writes, “to justify
Charlotte Cohen, Hazel Frankel Likht Der tate hot aropgenumen dem opgehitn khanuke lomp, shvarts baflektn, kroyn un leyb, odler un toyb farigelt tsu zeyer palats, akht brunems leydike, oysgedreyte knoytn shtayf mit eyl fun far a yorn di naynstn brumen der shames,der oyfze’er,
(Author: Michal Singer, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) In 2011 the Cape Town Holocaust Centre (CTHC) introduced its Heritage Project, with the aim of creating new channels for research and preserving the memory of the victims of the Third Reich, along with other