(Author: Steve Katzew, Vol. 79, #1, Winter 2024) I’ve always maintained that humankind is at its best in partnerships across lines of differences in race, religion, and nationality. The Jewish experience in South Africa bears this out. The giddying heights reached by disparate
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 79, #1, Winter 2024) We do not know what names Adam gave to the objects around him, but as he did not have to keep medical or business appointments, he was unlikely to have thought of giving names to
(Author: Clark Zlotchew, Vol. 79, #1, Winter 2024) My mother’s father, Nathan Granoff, was a glazer in Jersey City, New Jersey, and had been one in the land of his birth: the Ukraine. In his youth this region was part of the Czar’s
(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 79, #1, 2024) South African Jews have a long and honorable record of combining support for Israel and commitment to South Africa, the country which gave them shelter – often grudgingly – from the antisemitic plague that bedeviled Europe
(Author: Peter Arnold, Volume 79, #1, Winter 2024) “Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. Jews in England and South Africa and Australia. Where do we belong…truly belong?” While I was preparing for this talk, I was reading James Shapiro’s book, Shakespeare
