(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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
(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
(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
(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
(Author: Jeremy Gordin, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018) Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement, flashing in their mocking mirrors the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not
(Author: Boris Gorelik, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) Two man, a Russian and a South African, video-chatted for hours. Although Ilya and Bradley had never met before, they had eighty years to catch up on. Their grandfathers, Joseph and Barney, said