September 2021 – Jewish Affairs

How true a reflection of the Afrikaner-Jewish relationship was the pre-1948 antisemitism of the Afrikaner Press and Politicians? (Part 2)

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(Author: Ivan Kapelus, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) Feature image: Afrikaans, English and Jewish members of the Pietersburg Ambulance Fund Committee, 1929-1930 The 1930 Quota Act was aimed at severely curtailing Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, primarily from Lithuania. This Minister of Interior

Soviet history through the eyes of a South African Engineer: The Five Year Plan and Holodomor Famine, 1932-3

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(Author: Alison Marshall, Vol. 76 * No. 3 * Spring 2021) This is the story of Jerry Berman, who was a close friend of my grandparents, Meyer and Sonia Fortes.[1] As fellow students at the University of Cape Town in the 1920s, they used

Will my people — the Jews of Libya — ever get justice?

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(Author: David Gerbi, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) The history of Libya’s Jews stretches back to the 3rd Century BCE, through the 1492 Jewish expulsion from Spain and well into to the 20th Century. My community saw Romans, Ottomans, and Italians come and go.

District Six and portrayals of Jews in the memoirs of those removed from there

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) In February 1966, the apartheid government announced that it was going to apply the Group Areas Act to District Six, a suburb with a long history of mixed race residence. Esther Wilkin who grew up

Antisemitic Plant Names: Uprooting the Wandering Jew

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(Author: Peter Houston, Vol. 76 * No. 3 * Spring 2021) Abstract Worldwide, anti-Black words have been used to describe flora. As a result of its strongly racist history, there is extreme sensitivity to racial differences in South Africa. The removal of racist plant

Tradition among the Changes

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(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 76 * No. 3 * Spring 2021) Roodepoort’s small shul building was the place that held our community of approximately sixty Jewish families together. There were families that originated in Eastern Europe, from places such as Lithuania and Poland and

How true a reflection of the Afrikaner-Jewish relationship was the pre-1948 antisemitism of the Afrikaner Press and Politicians? (Part 2)

Soviet history through the eyes of a South African Engineer: The Five Year Plan and Holodomor Famine, 1932-3

Will my people — the Jews of Libya — ever get justice?

District Six and portrayals of Jews in the memoirs of those removed from there

Antisemitic Plant Names: Uprooting the Wandering Jew

Tradition among the Changes

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