(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 80, #2, Summer 2025) As the adage has it, “many hands make light work”, and that is true of many things. It is not always so, however, when it comes to writing community histories, where it can all too
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 80, #2, Summer 2025) At the beginning of 2025, a tour to Poland was advertised by the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre. It would be led by its new Director, Jakub Nowakowski. Despite the fact that the tour
Sailing from my Grandparents’ Synagogue I Wholly unprepared, the small boy stands at the threshold of a red sea crossing between regimented rows of unregimented Jews in musty theatre seats, dressed in festival best, appearing to see and be seen. In the center
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 80, #2, Summer 2025) Unlike countries like America and Australia, owing to discriminatory laws to stop Jewish immigration, few Holocaust survivors came to South Africa. Even though the Holocaust had removed the threat of thousands of unassimilable aliens swamping
(Author: Michel Levine, Vol. 80, #2, Summer 2025) During World War I, antisemitic nationalist movements largely suspended their usual rhetoric in the name of the “Sacred Union” declared at the war’s outset. Following Action Française’s example, they redirected their hostility from Jews to Germans—shifting