(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 80, #1, Autumn, 2025) In the closing weeks of June 1941, the regime of Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, as the mass invasion of the Soviet Union was called. Lithuania was one of the Soviet territories invaded, and shortly
(Author: Reviva Hasson, Vol. 80, #1, Autumn 2025) South Africa’s Jewish population has been steadily declining for decades. From a peak of close to 120,000 in the 1970s, the community has more than halved in size. By 2019, there were just over 52,000 Jews
(Author: Joanne Fedler, Vol. 80, #1, Autumn 2025) Editor’s note: January 2025 saw the passing of the distinguished South African artists and cartoonist Dov Fedler. We thank his daughter Joanne for this insightful and heartfelt tribute to her father, which provides at least
(Author: Yakub Nowakowski, Vol. 80, #1, Autumn 2025) “Time doesn’t pass over me, over us. It doesn’t erase anything, doesn’t undo it. I’m not alive. I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it.” These haunting words of Charlotte Delbo, a French survivor of
(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 80, #1, Autumn 2025) The willow tree at the bottom of our backyard garden was the gift that nature gave me as a Jewish child growing up in small-town South Africa. It offered me the riches of my