(Author: Lyonel Fliss, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) EDITOR’S NOTE A little over a week following the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, one of the worst pogroms of World
(AUTHOR: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) This is the first part of a story chronicling the experiences and events during World War II (1939-1945) during which three uncles of the sisters Arlene Rubin (nee Egnal) and Denise Buxbaum (nee Egnal), were soldiers
(Vol. 77, #2, Autumn-Winter 2022) A Liliesleaf Boyhood Editor’s Note: From December 1961 until July 1963, Paul and Nicholas Goldreich lived with their parents Arthur and Hazel Goldreich on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, then a largely rural suburb 20km north of Johannesburg. During
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) Once upon a time, there was a studious young Jewish immigrant who had to leave school at the age of 14 to go to work to support his family since the money-making ideas of
(Author: Solly Kessler, Vol. 77, #2, 2022) Having been allotted just a few minutes for an overview of the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies’ past, I shall only speak of the last fifty years, during which I was personally involved in the
(Peter Austin, Charlotte Cohen, Bernard Levinson) A Word. A Name. A single word imprints perception and relativity The difference between honor and horror Between freedom and captivity Humanity and brutality Often deserving of the hatred and anger Stemming from extortionate cruelty and danger Even
Juan-Paul Burke This is a follow on from the bibliography presented in JA Spring 2020 Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2019 & additions for 2014-2018. As the title suggests, you can expect to find the years
(Author Douglas Davis, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) About a month after being thrown out of Rhodes University in the Sixties, I joined the reporting staff of the Pretoria News. Not because I had ink coursing through my veins but because I
(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) To have lived as a white person in South Africa during the apartheid years was to have lived with a poisoned gift. Having been born into a Jewish family who had made their home there,
(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 77 2, Autumn 2022) At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, four brothers and a sister emigrated from Kurshan, Lithuania, to South Africa. Many are the reasons why people leave the country of their birth. Those four brothers and