(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) Once upon a time, there was a studious young Jewish immigrant who had to leave school at the age of 14 to go to work to support his family since the money-making ideas of
(Author: Solly Kessler, Vol. 77, #2, 2022) Having been allotted just a few minutes for an overview of the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies’ past, I shall only speak of the last fifty years, during which I was personally involved in the
(Peter Austin, Charlotte Cohen, Bernard Levinson) A Word. A Name. A single word imprints perception and relativity The difference between honor and horror Between freedom and captivity Humanity and brutality Often deserving of the hatred and anger Stemming from extortionate cruelty and danger Even
Juan-Paul Burke This is a follow on from the bibliography presented in JA Spring 2020 Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2019 & additions for 2014-2018. As the title suggests, you can expect to find the years
(Author Douglas Davis, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) About a month after being thrown out of Rhodes University in the Sixties, I joined the reporting staff of the Pretoria News. Not because I had ink coursing through my veins but because I
(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) To have lived as a white person in South Africa during the apartheid years was to have lived with a poisoned gift. Having been born into a Jewish family who had made their home there,
(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 77 2, Autumn 2022) At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, four brothers and a sister emigrated from Kurshan, Lithuania, to South Africa. Many are the reasons why people leave the country of their birth. Those four brothers and