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‘A Boerejood on Steroids’ – Dominique Malherbe’s Searching for Sarah: A Review essay

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(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) As literary executrix to the ‘father of Afrikaans literature’ and Senator in the Union Parliament, Cornelis Jakobus Langenhoven (1873-1932), the name of Sarah Goldblatt (1889-1975) has become synonymous with the fight for

Memories of Operation Savannah, Angola 1975–6

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(Author: Gary Nowosenetz, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) The 1 Medium Battery 4th Field Regiment We did Basics in Potchefstroom in 1975. Afterwards, we were divided up into three groups and trained in how to operate and deploy the 5.5 (140-mm guns. The first

Pioneer Women in Mandate Times

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(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) During Mandate times, many young women immigrated to Israel from Russia, hoping both to work the land and establish a socialist lifestyle. The words of a few of these women are recorded in the book The

How true a reflection of the Afrikaner-Jewish relationship was the pre-1948 antisemitism of the Afrikaner Press and Politicians? (Part 2)

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(Author: Ivan Kapelus, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) Feature image: Afrikaans, English and Jewish members of the Pietersburg Ambulance Fund Committee, 1929-1930 The 1930 Quota Act was aimed at severely curtailing Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, primarily from Lithuania. This Minister of Interior

Soviet history through the eyes of a South African Engineer: The Five Year Plan and Holodomor Famine, 1932-3

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(Author: Alison Marshall, Vol. 76 * No. 3 * Spring 2021) This is the story of Jerry Berman, who was a close friend of my grandparents, Meyer and Sonia Fortes.[1] As fellow students at the University of Cape Town in the 1920s, they used

Will my people — the Jews of Libya — ever get justice?

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(Author: David Gerbi, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) The history of Libya’s Jews stretches back to the 3rd Century BCE, through the 1492 Jewish expulsion from Spain and well into to the 20th Century. My community saw Romans, Ottomans, and Italians come and go.

District Six and portrayals of Jews in the memoirs of those removed from there

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) In February 1966, the apartheid government announced that it was going to apply the Group Areas Act to District Six, a suburb with a long history of mixed race residence. Esther Wilkin who grew up

Antisemitic Plant Names: Uprooting the Wandering Jew

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(Author: Peter Houston, Vol. 76 * No. 3 * Spring 2021) Abstract Worldwide, anti-Black words have been used to describe flora. As a result of its strongly racist history, there is extreme sensitivity to racial differences in South Africa. The removal of racist plant

Tradition among the Changes

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(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 76 * No. 3 * Spring 2021) Roodepoort’s small shul building was the place that held our community of approximately sixty Jewish families together. There were families that originated in Eastern Europe, from places such as Lithuania and Poland and

Lost in Time, Transmission & Technology

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(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) Reminiscent of an article written only a few years ago, which emphasized the incredible speed and technological advances with which the world is radically being changed, older generations (many born even before the advent of television) are

‘A Boerejood on Steroids’ – Dominique Malherbe’s Searching for Sarah: A Review essay

Memories of Operation Savannah, Angola 1975–6

Pioneer Women in Mandate Times

How true a reflection of the Afrikaner-Jewish relationship was the pre-1948 antisemitism of the Afrikaner Press and Politicians? (Part 2)

Soviet history through the eyes of a South African Engineer: The Five Year Plan and Holodomor Famine, 1932-3

Will my people — the Jews of Libya — ever get justice?

District Six and portrayals of Jews in the memoirs of those removed from there

Antisemitic Plant Names: Uprooting the Wandering Jew

Tradition among the Changes

Lost in Time, Transmission & Technology

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