(Author: Shulamit Kagan, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) A loud wailing filled the air and after that the loud weeping of his mother and the soft weeping of his sister. The doctor came out to the balcony and laid a hand on Yakov’s
(Author: Hazel Dakers, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) Feature image: Unmarked probable graves of Benjamin and Abigail Norden, Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery (author’s photo) Some years after the death of my South African grandfather, my aunts and my mother agreed to pass on to
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Feature image: The Sarah Sylvia Company in Cabaret Singers, 1950. Left to right: Bernard Berman, Sarah Sylvia, Pinie Goldstein, Chayele Rosenthal, Harry Ariel Max Weinreich, the greatest Yiddish scholar of his generation, was in Finland
(Author: Naomi Dison Kaplan, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) When one asks writers why they write, their answers vary slightly, but on the whole all stress that it is not about choice – they write because they have to. It is an
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Cape Town’s oldest Jewish bookstore M. Beinkinstadt, established in 1903 by Moshe Beinkinstadt, remained in the hands of his descendants for 105 years. Situated on the outskirts of District Six, site of the earliest Jewish