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FASCISTS, FABRICATORS AND FANTASISTS. Antisemitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present

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(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol 78, #2, Winter 2023) When Milton Shain’s book The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa appeared in 1994, it was hailed as the first scholarly examination of the origins, nature and reasons for anti-Jewish prejudice in South Africa from

CHALLENGING THE BDS MOVEMENT

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(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol 78, #2, Winter 2023) David Saks As its title indicates, Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns examines how world Jewry and its supporters have responded to the international campaign

A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

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(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 78, #2, Winter 2023) The conversation was intelligent and stimulating. Spoken quite casually, and despite the fact that I had never heard it used in a sentence before, one word stood out: The word was ‘anthropomorphic.’ Upon

HAMPSTEAD – MOSCOW – BRIGHTON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TANYA LITVINOV

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(Author: Paul Trewhela, Vol. 78, #3, Winter 2023) Already as a young woman, Tanya Litvinov found herself at the harsh juncture between literature, art and the totalitarian society of the Soviet Union, where her parents were members of the precarious political elite. When

A BRIEF JOURNEY THROUGH NETHERLANDS JEWISH HISTORY

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(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 78, #2, Winter 2023) The Jewish presence in what is today known as the Kingdom of the Netherlands probably dates to Roman times, when Jews accompanied the Roman armies into the southern part of the area. Documentary evidence of

EYEWITNESS TO POGROMS – D E GILMORE AND THE 1929 ARAB RIOTS

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(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 78, #2, Winter-Spring 2023) Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Menachem Av 5782 (July-August 2022) Hebrew edition of the popular Jewish history journal Segula (www.segulamag.com) and is reproduced here with kind permission. The riots started on 23 August

Poetry, Summer 2023

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Yaakov Wolpe, Clark Zlotchew Western Mist Things of form have stitched Western lands For these men, this what they dig, gold coins, it wriggles their grip – Will they see all their wealth!? They sit to rest just for some bits, for this

OBITUARY: GOLDIE GOLDSMITH

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Goldie Goldsmith, who died in Johannesburg in November 2022, worked for the SA Jewish Board of Deputies in various capacities for over forty years, primarily as administrative secretary of Jewish Affairs as well as of the SAJBD’s Afrikaans language publication Buurman which appeared during the

The ghost in the machine; or, towards contextualizing the Rambam

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(Author: Jeremy Gordin, Vol. 78, #1, Summer 2023) 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 comprehend. Ulysses,

Palestine Posts, An Eyewitness Account of the Birth of Israel

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(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 78, #1, Summer 2023) At the age of thirteen Mordecai Chertoff spent a year – 1935-6 – with his family in Palestine. After his return to the US, he went on to receive his B.A. at the City College of New

FASCISTS, FABRICATORS AND FANTASISTS. Antisemitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present

CHALLENGING THE BDS MOVEMENT

A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

HAMPSTEAD – MOSCOW – BRIGHTON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TANYA LITVINOV

A BRIEF JOURNEY THROUGH NETHERLANDS JEWISH HISTORY

EYEWITNESS TO POGROMS – D E GILMORE AND THE 1929 ARAB RIOTS

Poetry, Summer 2023

OBITUARY: GOLDIE GOLDSMITH

The ghost in the machine; or, towards contextualizing the Rambam

Palestine Posts, An Eyewitness Account of the Birth of Israel

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