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“There was Once a Home….” – Memories of the Lithuanian shtetls in the Afrikaner Idishe Tsaytung,1952-4

“There was Once a Home….” – Memories of the Lithuanian shtetls in the Afrikaner Idishe Tsaytung,1952-4

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(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 70, No. 3, Chanukah 2015)   Feature image: Jewish homes in Ponevezh   On 20 February 1953 A. Sarid, editor of the Afrikaner Idishe Tsaytung (‘African Jewish Newspaper’, 1932-1985), appealed to readers to send in information and photographs of their home
Auschwitz – 70 Years

Auschwitz – 70 Years

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(Author: Ann Harris, Vol. 70, No. 1, Pesach 2015)   On 27 January 2015, I had the responsibility and honour of representing the South African and African Jewish Congress Jewish communities at a ceremony at Auschwitz, Poland, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of
From Kovno, a Survivor…

From Kovno, a Survivor…

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(Author: Masha Geer, Vol. 70, No. 3, Chanukah 2015)   Editor’s Note: A typed version of this letter, translated from the original Yiddish, was found in the archives of the Beth Din by Isaac Reznik, a former Director of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues and
Remembering Birzh

Remembering Birzh

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(Authors: Bennie Rabinowitz, Gwynne Schrire, Veronica Belling, Vol. 70, No. 3, Chanukah 2015)   Birzh. Few people have heard of it. It is a town forgotten, partly through the great gulf of time separating this generation from the Holocaust and partly through the even greater
South Africa Then and Now: Belligerent Nationalism, Ethnic Scapegoating and the Politics of Xenophobia

South Africa Then and Now: Belligerent Nationalism, Ethnic Scapegoating and the Politics of Xenophobia

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(Author: Tony Leon, Vol. 71, No. 1, Pesach 2016)   In a recent essay, entitled ‘Fear’, published in The New York Review of Books, the prize-winning US novelist Marilynne Robinson accused certain extremist strands in contemporary American Christianity of being ‘unchristian’ in that they pedal