(Author/compiler: Ruth Coggin, Vol. 79, #2, Summer 2024) The passing of Rose Norwich on 26 August 2004 at the age of 103 years brings to a close a remarkable life characterised by service to humanity in general and the Jewish community of South Africa in
(Author: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 79, #2, Summer 2024) The Context This article is part of a larger, multi-year project of researching the history of the camp system, such as concentration camps, internment camps and displaced persons’ camps, by the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide
(Author: Steve Katzew, Vol. 79, #1, Winter 2024) I’ve always maintained that humankind is at its best in partnerships across lines of differences in race, religion, and nationality. The Jewish experience in South Africa bears this out. The giddying heights reached by disparate
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 79, #1, Winter 2024) We do not know what names Adam gave to the objects around him, but as he did not have to keep medical or business appointments, he was unlikely to have thought of giving names to
(Author: Clark Zlotchew, Vol. 79, #1, Winter 2024) My mother’s father, Nathan Granoff, was a glazer in Jersey City, New Jersey, and had been one in the land of his birth: the Ukraine. In his youth this region was part of the Czar’s
(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 79, #1, 2024) South African Jews have a long and honorable record of combining support for Israel and commitment to South Africa, the country which gave them shelter – often grudgingly – from the antisemitic plague that bedeviled Europe
(Author: Peter Arnold, Volume 79, #1, Winter 2024) “Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. Jews in England and South Africa and Australia. Where do we belong…truly belong?” While I was preparing for this talk, I was reading James Shapiro’s book, Shakespeare
(Author: Alon Shapira, Vol. 79 * No. 1 * Winter 2024) ‘What on earth is there to talk about? There were dozens of chaps that did far more than I could ever have done – they should get the publicity, not
(Interview with Lynn Joffe, Vol. 78, #3, Spring-Summer 2023) EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ‘A fizzing, fulsome and fiercely funny heroine, and a novel charged with music, energy, bounce, juice and joy. Like a Jewish Molly Bloom, let loose on history. I love the way
