(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) Few in the year 2013 think it strange that the immediate past Chairman of the SAJBD Cape Council and the current SAJBD National Chairman and National Director, respectively Li Boiskin, Mary Kluk and Wendy Kahn,
(Author: Shirli Gilbert, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) The first time South African Jews commemorated the Holocaust, it didn’t yet have a name. In December 1942, barely a year since the first Nazi death camp had begun its grisly work at Chelmno, the
(Author: David Klepper, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) Tina Frühauf, born to a non-Jewish German family, developed an early interest in music and decided to become a keyboard performer, with emphasis on the organ. She then discovered an old print of German-Jewish cantorial
(Author Anny Wynchank, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) The Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU)1 is a Paris-based international Jewish organization. Over 150 years old, it was founded in Paris in 1860 by Adolphe Crémieux and six other prominent French Jews. It is probably the
(Author: Ute Ben Yosef, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) In November this year, South Africa’s Mother City will have the privilege of hosting an exhibition of paintings by the eminent artist Samuel Bak. It is being brought to these shores by the Pucker
(Authors: Madeleine Georgette, Natalie Knight, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) EDITOR’S NOTE: From 22 August to 29 September 2012, a compelling new art exhibition documenting the story of South Africa’s transition from Apartheid to Democracy was on show at the Origins Centre, University
(Author: Janus J Gluck, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) A short while before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, another historic find was unearthed in 1945 near the village of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt: a batch of 12 codices containing 53
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) A cookbook bearing the most unusual name of Bread and peacocks: a Cookery Book: Exotic Recipes, by Sarah Shaban, described as “a prominent hostess in South Africa”, was published in London by Grosvenor Publishing Co.
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – generally referred to by the august title of ‘Mahatma’ (Great Soul) – was unquestionably one of the towering personalities of the last century, not only for the pivotal role he played
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) It is not every day that Cape Town’s Cape Jewish Chronicle receives an e-mail from overseas asking for something that had appeared in one of its distant back issues. The item requested in this particular