(Author: David Gerbi, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) The history of Libya’s Jews stretches back to the 3rd Century BCE, through the 1492 Jewish expulsion from Spain and well into to the 20th Century. My community saw Romans, Ottomans, and Italians come and go.
(Author: Peter Houston, Vol. 76 * No. 3 * Spring 2021) Abstract Worldwide, anti-Black words have been used to describe flora. As a result of its strongly racist history, there is extreme sensitivity to racial differences in South Africa. The removal of racist plant
(Author: Peter Houston, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) Abstract Islamophobia and antisemitism are likened to two sides of the same coin. While there are considerable similarities in definitions, such as a fear-based response to the Other, the implications differ considerably between countries.
(Author: Isador Segal, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) On the morning of 6 September 1998, delegates to the World Congress of Gastroenterology were invited to a symposium entitled ‘A Period of Darkness – the University of Vienna’s Medical School and the Nazi
(Author: Wendy Kahn, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) “Giving the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad a platform to lecture the world about racism is like inviting Bernie Madoff to head a global conference on business ethics”. This was one of the choice quotes doing the
(Author: Bernard Levinson, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Feature image: Members of a Latvian self-defence unit assemble a group of Jewish women for execution on a beach near Liepāja, 15 December 1941. It is August in Latvia. The sun, echoing still the summer’s
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) When visiting Henia Bryer in her beautifully appointed apartment in Larmenier Retirement Village in Vredehoek, Cape Town, it is hard to believe that this beautifully groomed elegant lady has such a harrowing tale to
(Author: Rodney Mazinter, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) …[W]e have now entered a new era of global antisemitism.1 The continued scapegoating of Israel and of European Jews by multiple groups simultaneously, the systematic shedding of Jewish-Israeli blood, has reached a dangerous, contagious
(Author: Milton Shain, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Late in 2008, I was struck by two virtually concurrent news headlines: the South African Jewish Report of 19 September led with the headline ‘Low anti-Semitism in SA – but don’t be complacent’, and a week
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) No-one was particularly surprised when Operation Cast Lead – Israel’s sustained offensive against Hamas in Gaza, commencing late December 2008 and ending in mid-January this year – led to a corresponding escalation of antisemitic activity worldwide.