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Understanding the experiences of Jewish Displaced Persons in post-war Germany through oral history

Understanding the experiences of Jewish Displaced Persons in post-war Germany through oral history

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  (Author: Emma Wilkins, Volume 79, #2, Summer 2024)   Oral history is unique in its ability to individualise and emotionalise the experiences of Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs). Within the unlikely space of occupied Germany, the surviving Jewish population began the process of reclaiming its

From Hot Cross Buns to Crossword Puzzles: The SA Jewish Board of Deputies as an information resource

From Hot Cross Buns to Crossword Puzzles: The SA Jewish Board of Deputies as an information resource

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  (Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 79, #2, Summer 2024)     Most people associate  the South African Jewish Board of Deputies  with tackling antisemitism and taking on the Government when its irrational pro-Hamas and pro-Palestine platform interferes with the Constitutional  right of the Jewish community

Obituary: Rose Norwich

Obituary: Rose Norwich

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(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

RUNNING WITH ROCKIES

RUNNING WITH ROCKIES

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  (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

GRANDFATHER’S TRAVELS

GRANDFATHER’S TRAVELS

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  (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

IDENTITY AND BELONGING

IDENTITY AND BELONGING

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  (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