(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
(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
(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
(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
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) Hindsight is good, foresight is better. Hindsight is cleverer but usually useless because it comes too late. Foresight, despite information and expert analysis, is rarely helpful. This became apparent when I was given a newspaper with
(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: Hyman Jocum, Vol. 77, #1, Summer 2022) When in May 1939 the British Parliament in Westminster published the White Paper on Palestine with its severe restrictions on Jewish immigration it effectively scuttled the Balfour Declaration. From then onwards, aliyah to the Holy Land
(Vol. 77 * No. 1 * Summer 2022) On Friday, 20 August 1921, 108 Polish Ukrainian Jewish Orphans landed in Quebec, Canada, aboard SS Scandinavia. These were part of a group of 150 children selected and rescued by Harry Hirshman, representative of the
(Author: Hyman Jocum, Vol. 77, #1, Summer 2022) When in May 1939 the British parliament in Westminster published the White Paper on Palestine with its severe restrictions on Jewish immigration it effectively scuttled the Balfour Declaration. From then onwards, aliyah to the Holy Land
(Author: Ivan Kapelus, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) Feature image: Afrikaans, English and Jewish members of the Pietersburg Ambulance Fund Committee, 1929-1930 The 1930 Quota Act was aimed at severely curtailing Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, primarily from Lithuania. This Minister of Interior