(Authors: Naomi Rapeport, Colin Schamroth, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) Abstract: In 1918 an influenza pandemic known as ‘Spanish Flu’ swept the world. It had a devastating effect on the South African population. The duration of this pandemic was relatively brief,
(Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) The editorial board of Jewish Affairs was saddened to learn of the passing earlier this month of long-serving board member the Honourable Justice Ralph Zulman. Judge Zulman combined a stellar career on the Bench (culminating with his
(Reviewer: Leonard Suransky, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) As someone who lived through the Johannesburg of the 1950s and 60s, I recommend Jack Hoffmann’s novel, He Does Not Die a Death of Shame, to anyone from that era. Why? The author has
(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) I have often felt that the passing of my father, Jacob William Behr, deserved to be marked by more than just the statutory notification plastered on the notice board of his apartment
(Author: Kathy Munro, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) Kathy Munro is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. Trained as an economic historian, she enjoyed a long career as an academic and
(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) ‘ One name is missing from the history of the early struggle with the British for the creation of a Jewish state. It is that of Lord Arthur Balfour’s niece. Born Blanche Elizabeth
(Author: Honey Gluckman, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) In 1948, as a high school pupil aged 15 years, I read an article in a Jewish journal asking people to write to prisoners in camp Gilgil in Kenya. Since I was going through
(Author: Simon Berg, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) . “And even if we had an autograph copy of, say, the Book of Ezra, it would not answer all our questions, for it was created at a time (2400 years ago) when writing
(AUTHOR: Veronica Belling, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2017) A lifelong rebel, a trade unionist and a Trotskyite, Fanny Klenerman’s name is chiefly associated with the Vanguard Bookshop, iconic of leftist circles in Johannesburg during the period 1931-1974. Although her shop is often cited,