(Author: Andreas Albrecht, Vol. 81, #2, Spring-Summer 2026) I am not writing as a historian. I am writing because I want to remember. I am putting my thoughts and feelings into words in the hope of reaching people who are willing to
(Author: Lennie Lurie, Vol. 81, #2, Spring-Summer 2026) I first heard that accursed name Adolph Eichmann – Hitler’s appointee responsible for the assembly and mass deportation of Jews to the extermination camps of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzac and Chemno, all located in Poland
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026) Said Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai, “There are three crowns: the crown of Torah, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of royalty, but the crown of a good name is above them all [1].” Sir Moses
[Author: Lyonell Fliss, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter2026) EDITOR’S NOTE: In the Summer-Spring 2023 issue of Jewish Affairs appeared Expedition “Escape” – Journey Diaries, Lyonell Fliss’ memoir of escaping with his wife Liliana from Communist Romania in 1969 and how fifty years later he revisited each
[Author: Simon Berg, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026} Karaite Judaism is a non-rabbinic alternative form of Judaism that emerged from the mid-8th Century CE in the Islamic world in Iraq. It challenged rabbinic Judaism’s beliefs in the ‘Oral Laws’ of the Torah which were
[Author: Michel Levine, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026] Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, in December 1914 the Ottoman Empire – allied with the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary – decided to expel from its colony of Palestine the nationals of
(Author: Kenneth Wright, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026) EDITOR’S NOTE: In its Winter 2024 (Vol. 79, #1) issue, JA published Alon Shapira’s article ‘”What on earth is there to talk about?” – An act of wartime heroism remembered’ regarding the sinking of the
(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026) We lived across the road from the railway track. I often could be found standing at the fence watching people in the passenger trains going back and forth between Johannesburg and our small town of
(Reviewer: Milton Shain, Vol. 81, #1, Summer 2026) In A History of Christianity, the Oxford scholar Diarmaid MacCulloch – a keen observer of ecclesiastical history and religious conflict – warns against facile and glib constructions of the past. “There is no surer basis for
(Author: Steven Katzew, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn 2026) Picture the scene: the 27th of July 1974, Ellis Park, Johannesburg, considered the fortress of South African rugby. A crowd of 75 000 predominantly South African supporters hoping for the salvaging of some pride by the