(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019) I loved visiting my grandmother when I was a child. The reason was simple. She spoiled me rotten: She took me to matinees. She played rummy with me. She made me French- toast
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Edwin Black’s The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust is a penetrating and insightful look into the Islamic-Nazi alliance of World War II, the bloody pogrom of Jews by Arab mobs in Baghdad
(Reviewer: Hilda Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Doctor Azila Talit Reisenberger, Head of the Hebrew Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and author of a number of well-known poetry books and plays in both English and Hebrew, has produced a most entertaining
(Reviewer: Roy Robins, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century (2010) is an enormous and informative compendium of capsule biographies and concise critical essays on notable novelists, essayists, playwrights and poets. In the book’s foreword, editor
(Author: Honey Gluckman, Sol Cowan, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) The following is a response by two readers from the ‘Jewish Community’ to Daniel Macintosh’s article ‘Speaking out Against Injustice? Re-examining the SAJBD’s Response to Apartheid, 1948-1976’ in the Rosh Hashanah 2010 issue of
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) At the beginning of 2010, the author was interviewed by a graduate student at Wits University for a thesis on possible long-term solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Questions posed probed the notion that Jewish settlement
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) Chanukah has another name – the Festival of Lights – and if you are lucky enough to walk around the streets of Jerusalem on Chanukah evenings, you can certainly see why. Everywhere, the lights of
(Author: Adam Levick, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) “People resent the Jews for having emerged from their immemorial weakness and fearlessly resorted to force. They thereby betrayed the mission that history had assigned to them –being a people…that did not get tangled up
(Author: Bernard Duchen, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) I was born in Johannesburg, in December 1941, but grew up in Wesselsnek, a little coal mining village in the district of Kliprivier, in the Dundee/Newcastle/Ladysmith triangle of Northern Natal. From around 1840, this had become
(Author: Naomi Musiker, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) Feature image: Laying of the foundation stone of the Fordsburg synagogue, 1904, by Mrs L R Melman on behalf of the Fordsburg & Districts Benevolent Society. With her is her husband, Mr Melman. Most of