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Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to South African Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2020/2021 & Additions for 2014-2019

Author: Published on: Published in: Jewish History – South Africa

 

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 2020 and 2021 well covered in this bibliography, as well as some additions for the years 2014-2019.

As noted in my previous bibliographies I have excluded anything from local community publications, as it goes without saying that they will be filled with South African Jewish content. Also excluded are articles in non-Jewish or overseas newspapers and magazines. What I have included are academic, popular and religious texts found in academic journals, or as books or theses. A couple of new websites and films are also included. These are not hard and fast parameters, though, and there will always be exceptions.

I’d also like to highlight that as we move deeper into a digital world and come to grips with 4IR we can expect to be surprised as new wonderful ways of displaying and imparting information become available. A digital version of a book no longer need be a simple e-book or pdf but instead a broader experience, alive with hyperlinks, video and audio, perhaps interactive, participatory, and with continuous updates. The digital domain allows for more flexibility, space, innovation and other exciting possibilities than what a conventional physical book or exhibition can offer. So I have decided to add more “new media” to this bibliography, in particular a type that is gaining in popularity and which I consider an excellent alternative for how to display and impart information – amounting really to an online version of a physical publication or exhibition. I’m talking about the web exhibition/online exhibition, the Kaplan Centre having now several examples of it freely available off their website, with a separate tab dedicated to these. You will notice how some equate to short booklets while others equate to a lengthy history. Sometimes they are used to supplement, either by adding additional information that did not make it into the original physical version, or by serving to augment as they add another rich layer on top of the original.

Being that it is the first time I have had an opportunity to reference a web/online exhibition, I was confronted with a question as to whether or not to include the professional responsible for the web editing and designing of it. There is no doubt that the web editor/designer can add significantly to the end result and so I argue is akin to a translator, editor or director, who are sometimes included in a reference due to their significant and sometimes critical contribution to the final success of a work. So, I have here added the web editor to the web/online exhibition references.

You may find that sometimes a work’s relevance to South African Jewry or Jewish Studies is not immediately evident from the title, but rest assured I found enough content inside for me to consider it fit to be included in this bibliography. I have also expanded the boundaries slightly to include some African Jewry works.

This listing cannot be claimed to be comprehensive, and it is more than likely that certain relevant items have been missed. I appeal to readers to inform me of any edits or suggestions of additions to the bibliography (paysach12@gmail.com).

My reference style is based on UCT author-date. The slight variance is for links at the end of a reference where I have dropped “Available:” before the link and the date accessed at the end. Several subjects are represented including education, history, antisemitism, holocaust, politics, literature, art, music, religion, business, sport, and Yiddish.

2021

  • BACHMANN, K. 2021. A Life in Limbo: Otto von Strahl’s Activities for and against Germany in the Union of South Africa. South African Historical Journal. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1998210
  • BALCOMB, A. 2021. Resentment–excavating a resurgent phenomenon in contemporary society. Scriptura: Journal for Contextual Hermeneutics in Southern Africa. 120(1):1-15. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-script-v120-n1-a1
  • BAUMGARTEN, M. 2021. Dan Jacobson’s “Mattering Map”: Heshel’s Kingdom as a Split-Screen Family Album. Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. 19(2):349-359.
  • BELLING, V. 2021. Roza van Gelderen and Hilda Purwitsky. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women’s Archive. (Viewed on June 27, 2021) https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gelderen-van-roza-and-hilda-purwitsky
  • CLEGG, J. 2021. Scatterling of Africa: my early years. Johannesburg: PanMacmillan Africa.
  • CLEOPHAS, F.J. 2021. A political-institutional history of the Stellenbosch University physical education department, 1936–1939. Sport in Society. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2021.2013203
  • DAVID, J. 2021. The Jews of Africa: lost tribes, found communities, emerging faiths. Jono David.
  • DISON, D. 2021. The good Nigerian. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media.
  • Ella Blumenthal: I Am Here. 2021. [Film] Directed by J. Sank. https://sanktuaryfilms.com/project/i-am-here-documentary/
  • FRANCIS, L. J., PARKER, S., & LANKSHEAR, D. W. 2021. New directions in religious and values education international perspectives. Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers.
  • FRANKEL, H. 2021. The Witness of Poetry: Holocaust Representation in Abraham Sutzkever and David Fram. Journal of Literary Studies. 37(4):34-48.
  • FRANKEL, H. 2021. Holocaust and Home The Poetry of David Fram from Lithuania to South Africa. Modern Humanities Research Association. Legenda.
  • FRANKENTAL, S. 2021. South Africa. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women’s Archive. (Viewed on June 27, 2021) https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/south-africa
  • FREUND, B. 2021. Bill Freund: an historian’s passage to Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
  • GILBERT, S., & GILBERT, L. 2021. South African Jewish Responses to COVID-19. Contemporary Jewry. 41:229-246.
  • GILBERT, S., & POSEL, D. 2021. Israel, apartheid, and a South African Jewish dilemma. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 20:1-21.
  • GILBERT, S. and POSEL, D., 2021. The Holocaust, Apartheid, and Contemporary South African Jewish Perspectives on Victimhood. Journal of Jewish Identities. 14(2):155-170.
  • GORDON, G. 2021. Full circle: a novel. NY: Judaica Press.
  • HOWSE, M. 2021. The art of golden repair: a personal view on the unique work of justice in restitution and remembrance culture. Dresden State Art Collections, Porcelain Collection.  https://doi.org/10.11588/artdok.00007289
  • KLEYNHANS, E. 2021. Hitler’s South African spies: secrets agents and the intelligence war in South Africa. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers.
  • JEWISH AFFAIRS. 2021. https://www.jewishaffairs.co.za/
  • KISSI, E. 2021. Integrating sub-Saharan Africa into a historical and cultural study of the Holocaust. Holocaust Studies. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2021.1970955
  • KUMARASWAMY, P. R. 2021. Squaring the circle: mahatma gandhi and the Jewish national home. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
  • . Ina Perlman. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women’s Archive. (Viewed on June 27, 2021) https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/perlman-ina
  • . Pauline Podbrey. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women’s Archive. (Viewed on June 27, 2021) https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/podbrey-pauline
  • LEIBOWITZ, L. A. 2021. Ray Harmel. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 23 June 2021. Jewish Women’s Archive. (Viewed on June 27, 2021) https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/harmel-ray
  • LEON, T. 2021. Future tense: reflections on my troubled land. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
  • LESTER, B. 2021. We were the Newmans. Beverley Lester.
  • LUBOTZKY, A. and ARIELI, R.M., 2021. ‘The Great Trek Towards Nazism’: Anti-Fascism and the Radical Left in South Africa During the Early Apartheid Era. South African Historical Journal. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.2009014
  • MALHERBE, N. 2021. Searching for Sarah: the woman who loved Langenhoven. Cape Town: Tafelberg.
  • MEIR, E. 2021. Gandhi’s View on Judaism and Zionism in Light of an Interreligious Theology. Religions. 12(7):489. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12070489
  • MEYERSON, M. 2021. Are Jews really no good at sports? Michael Meyerson.
  • NATES, T. 2021. New developments in Holocaust and genocide education in South Africa: The case study of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. In Conceptualizing Mass Violence Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations. AAFREEDI, N. J., & SINGH, P. Eds. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146131
  • NATES, K. & NATES, T. 2021. Portraits of survival: Volume1: The Holocaust. South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. https://www.jhbholocaust.co.za/remembrance/online-publications/
  • PIKŪNAS, K. 2021. Litvaks: Lithuanian Jews: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Vilna: Post Scriptum. Littera. https://www.passport-journal.com/en/product/passport-journal-iii-t-anglu-k/
  • REISENBERGER, A. T. 2021. The magic of us. Cape Town: Azila Talit Reisenberger.
  • ROBINS, S. 2021. In the Shadows of the Shoah and Apartheid: Recovering Traces of “difficult pasts” of German-Jewish Refugees in South Africa. Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. Journal of the Fondazione CDEC. June 2021. 19. https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/
  • RAPANYANE, M.B. 2021. Consistency and inconsistency in the foreign policy of the Republic of South Africa towards Israel. Journal of Public Affairs. e2746. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2746
  • RUBIN, A. D., & KAHN, L. 2021. Jewish languages from A to Z. NY: Routledge.
  • SCHRIRE, G. 2021. The Green and Sea Point Hebrew Congregation from its origins to 2010. [Web Exhibition]. L. Young, Web Ed. Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. http://www.kaplancentre.uct.ac.za/kaplan/web-exhibitions/green-seapoint
  • SEMYONOV-TAL K, & MASKILEYSON D. 2021. Unhealthy Immigrants: Sources for Health Gaps Between Immigrants and Natives in Israel. Frontiers in Sociology. 6.
  • SNYDERS, H. 2021. “A Partnership in the Challenges Facing Us”-Apartheid and South African-Israeli Rugby Relations, C. 1948 – 1989. The Southern Journal for Contemporary History. 46(1):86-106. https://doi.org/10.18820/24150509/SJCH46.v1.5
  • STAVANS, I. 2021. Jewish literature: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press.
  • SWARTZ, L. 2021. How I lost my mother: a story of life, care and dying. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
  • TIETZE, A. 2021. Controversial collections: The Michaelis gifts to South Africa. Journal of the History of Collections. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhab054
  • TURPIN, J. 2021 The Holocaust in Senegal: An artist’s response. [Online Exhibition]. C. Boyd, Web Ed. Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. https://www.jhbholocaust.co.za/remembrance/online-resources/
  • WITKIN, A. 2021. It’s not a big thing in life: strategies for coping considerations for my adult grandchildren. Arnie Witkin.
  • You will not play Wagner. 2021. [Film/Virtual Play] Directed by Lilia Levitina. Playwright Victor Gordon. JArts Theatreworks Group. https://jartsboston.org/article/you-will-not-play-wagner/

2020

  • AMIEN, W. and RAJWANI, K. 2020. Equalizing gendered access to Jewish divorce in South Africa. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. 52(3):330-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2020.1837465
  • AYACHE, Y. 2020. The Bat Mitzvah Phenomenon: An exploration of an educational life cycle programme. MA. London School of Jewish Studies.
  • THE BEAU BASSIN JEWISH DETAINEES MEMORIAL & INFORMATION CENTRE [Website].  https://jewishdetaineesmauritius.com/
  • BELLING, V. 2020. “S’iz nisht dos vos amol iz geven”: Max Perlman (1909-1985). Digital Yiddish Theatre Project. https://web.uwm.edu/yiddish-stage/siz-night-dos-vos-amok-is-geven-max-perlman-1909-1985
  • BERGER, L. M. 2020. Irma Stern and the racial paradox of South African modern art: audacities of color. London; New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
  • BRIGHT, R. 2020. Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c. 1900-1920. History of Global Arms Transfer. 10:27-44. http://hdl.handle.net/10291/21119
  • CASSEL, A. 2020. Category: South Africa. In Keidan: The story of a vanished community. [Website]. https://keidaner.com/category/south-africa/
  • CHAPLIN, K. 2020. Can do!: Making the impossible possible! Noordhoek: Print Matters.
  • DHUPELIA-MESTHRIE, U. and WEINTROUB, J. 2020. Going Beyond Gandhi’s ‘inner Circle’ of Relationships: Satyagraha House, Hermann Kallenbach and Gandhi’s Sons. Critical African Studies. 12(2):140–170.
  • DIONNE, A. T. 2020. The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilts and its repercussions: Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Magic Barrel’. PhD. University of Pretoria. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77314
  • Escape from Pretoria [DVD]. 2020. Produced by M. Auret et al. & Directed by F. Annan.
  • FEDLER, D. 2020. Starlite memories: misadventures in movie-making. Cape Town: Tafelberg.
  • FEDLER, J. 2020. Unbecoming. Waikiki, WA: Serenity Press.
  • GEVISSER, M. 2020. The pink line: journeys across the world’s queer frontiers. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers.
  • GRAHAM, D. 2020. The Jews of South Africa in 2019: Identity, community, society, demography. (Report March 2020). London: Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-1058.
  • HESSE, I. 2020. Whiteness, Apartheid, and Resistance in Jewish South African Writing. Journal of Jewish Identities. 13(1):43-61. DOI: 10.1353/jji.2020.0009
  • HUNTER, M. J. 2020. Colonisers to Colonialists: European Jews and the workings of race as a political identity in the settler colony of South Africa. MA. University of the Western Cape. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7701
  • HYSLOP, J. 2020. Anti-Fascism in South Africa 1933–1945, and Its Legacies. In Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective. 77-95. Routledge.
  • IGWEBUIKE, A. C. 2020. World religions as resource to peace and well-being: John Hicks Christian theology of religions and its relevance to KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). PhD. University of KwaZulu-Natal. https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/20152
  • ISACOWITZ, R. 2020. Telling People What They Don’t Want To Hear: A Liberal Life Under Apartheid. Tel Aviv: Kibbitzer Books.
  • JOFFE, L. 2020. The gospel according to Wanda B. Lazarus: a novel. South Africa: Modjaji Books.
  • JOLLES, M. 2020. Encyclopaedia of British Jewish cantors, chazanim, ministers and synagogue musicians: their history and culture. London: Jolles Publications. http://www.cantors.eu/JollesEncyclopaediaLaunch.html
  • KAIMOWITZ, K. 2020. Meeting the needs of all learners: An investigation into inclusion in the Jewish Life and Learning classroom. MA. London School of Jewish Studies
  • KISSI, E. 2020. Africans and the Holocaust: perceptions and responses of colonized and sovereign peoples. Routledge.
  • KOJANA, T. 2020. The influence of religious faith on the entrepreneurship process of established entrepreneurs. MBA. University of Pretoria. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75258
  • LAMPERT, H. 2020. The trouble with my aunt. Pinegowrie, South Africa: Porcupine Press.
  • MANOIM, I. 2020. Mavericks Inside The Tent: Digital add-on to the book. [Web Exhibition]. L. Young, Web Ed. Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. http://www.progressivejews.co.za/
  • MASUR, J. 2020. Shalom Uganda: a Jewish community on the Equator. Vancouver, BC: Janice Masur.
  • MOCH, C. 2020. An analysis of teacher perceptions about curriculum integration at a Jewish day school using Legitimation Code Theory. MA. London School of Jewish Studies.
  • MUIR, S. 2020. Journeys in Jewish Choral Music: Performing the South African archives of Synagogue Composers from the Soviet Union. University of Leeds. https://journeys-in-jewish-choral-music.org.
  • OELLERMANN, E. 2020. Exploring the use of music in Foundation Phase teaching. MEd. University of Pretoria. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80498
  • OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI OF SOUTH AFRICA. 2020. All Together Now – A Unity Haggadah Companion. https://www.chiefrabbi.co.za/haggadah
  • OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RABBI OF SOUTH AFRICA. 2020. All Together Now – Unity Tikkun Leil Companion. https://www.chiefrabbi.co.za/shavuot
  • ORALEK, M. 2020. Michael Harmel (1915-1974): A South African Communist and His Discourse. PhD. Victoria University of Wellington. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8854
  • PEDERSON, B.H. 2020. Being and belonging among White English-speaking South Africans. PhD. University of Cape Town. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32477
  • PLASS, H. 2020. Zwischen Antisemitismus und Apartheid: Judinnnen Und Juden in Suidafrica (1948-1990). Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag.
  • SADIKE, I. M. 2020. Mulemba A Nonga Thovhele.
  • SAJMARCHIVES. 2020. https://sajmarchives.com/
  • SAMUELS, J. 2020. Chutzpah, wisdom and wine: the journey of an unstoppable woman. Emek Valley Press.
  • SCHRIRE, G. 2020. The letters of Tuvye Kretzmar. [Web Exhibition]. L. Young, Web Ed. Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. https://www.letters-of-tuvye-kretzmar.co.za/
  • SCHWAB, S. 2020. No Single Loyalty: Processes of Identification among German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany in South Africa. In Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories. Leiden: Brill. 68-85. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004399532
  • SEABELA, M. G. 2020. Un-silencing Histories of Black Servants at Zwartkoppies Farm: a Transition from the Sammy Marks House to the Sammy Marks Museum. MSoSci. University of Pretoria. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75855
  • SIEGMAN, J. 2020. Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. University of Nebraska Press.
  • STEIN, I. 2020. Ethics of Eden: Impact and outcomes of an environmental Jewish programme. MA. London School of Jewish Studies.
  • STEINBERG, S., GRENVILLE, A. (eds). 2020. Forgotten Destinations? Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Dominions, Colonies and Overseas Territories after 1933: An Introduction. In Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories. Leiden: Brill. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004399532
  • STERN, Y. 2020. Attracting Young Adults: An Examination of Young Adult Participation in the Synagogue. MA. London School of Jewish Studies.
  • TAMARKIN, N. 2020. Genetic afterlives: Black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • THURGOOD, S. 2020. Emergency Remote Teaching of Primary School Kodesh: What Lessons Have We Learnt? MA. London School of Jewish Studies.
  • ULLRICH, L. G. 2020. Life in Death: Addressing Heterotopic Burial Spaces by Re-Introducing Burial Rituals into the Inner-City of Pretoria. MA. University of Pretoria. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78637
  • VINZENT, J. 2020. The British Internment of Refugees from Nazi Germany in Kenya during World War II. In Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories. Leiden: Brill. 159-182. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004399532
  • WALD, A. 2020. On Jewish Revolutionary Internationalism. Against the Current. Nov/Dec 2020. 209. https://againstthecurrent.org/atc209/jewish-revolutionaries/
  • WHITE, H. 2020. How is capitalism racial? Fanon, critical theory and the fetish of antiblackness. Social Dynamics. 46(1):22-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2020.1758871

2019

  • BEN YOSEF, U. 2019. The Life and Art of Herman Wald. [Web Exhibition]. L. Young, Web Ed.  Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. http://www.lifeandartofhermanwald.co.za/
  • CHIGER, A. R. 2019. A survey of the views of South African Jewish adolescents towards Torah study. MA. London School of Jewish Studies.
  • DAITZ, E. F. 2019. “To wash one’s enemy’s wounds”: Israel in the Letters of Benjamin Pogrund and Robert Sobukwe. [Web Exhibition]. L. Young, Web Ed. Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. http://www.kaplancentre.uct.ac.za/kaplan/web-exhibitions/letters
  • DEMBO, S. 2019. What do schools hope to achieve by prayer services? Teachers’ Views in South African Jewish High Schools. MA. London School of Jewish Studies.
  • DU TOIT, K. S. 2019. The Jewish question and Verwoerd: editorship of Die Transvaler 1937 – 1948. MA. University of the Witwatersrand. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/29313
  • GREEN, G. 2019. No entry. Parndana, South Australia: Stormbird Press.
  • HOFFMANN, J. 2019. He does not die a death of shame. Durban: New Generation Publishing.
  • KRIEL, H. 2019. The year of facing fire. Auckland Park, South Africa: MF Books Joburg.
  • MARCUS, M. & MARCUS, B. 2019. My story (Rabbi Barry Marcus). Amberley Publishing.
  • SCHOUB, B. D. 2019. Seeing God through science: exploring the science narrative to strengthen and deepen faith in the creator. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock.
  • VISSER, E. 2019. Ethnic Radicals. [Web Exhibition]. L. Young, Web Ed. Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. https://www.ethnicradicals.co.za/

2018

  • GENCOGLU, H. 2018. Socio-political challenges of marginal religious groups: the Sabbatean movement as a case study. PhD. University of Cape Town. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29498
  • MOCH, M. 2018. דור ודור: A communal Haggadah. Johannesburg: YBH – Yeshivas Bein Hazmanim.
  • MOUTON, F.A. 2018. Fascist or opportunist? The political career of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1943. Historia. 63(2):93-111. https://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-8392/2018/v63n2a5
  • SIDELSKY, B. 2018. The adventures and experiences of a once upon a time South African rabbi. Jerusalem: Mazo Publishers.

2017

2014

  • KALMAN, J. 2014. Mansions in Maroubra: making a Jewish South African home in Australia. History Australia. 11(1):175-196.
  • KATZ, J. P. 2014. Belonging to a Strange Nation: Paarl Jews, Marburg Norwegians, and the White Settler Landscape in Colonial South Africa, 1890-1930. Thesis. University of Chicago.

 

 

Juan-Paul Burke is a Librarian and Archivist who has previously worked for University of Cape Town Libraries in their Jewish Studies Branch Library housed in the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research. He now lives in Rehovot, Israel, where he is involved in Torah publishing and recruitment.

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