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Reform Judaism for Litvaks? A new history of the Progressive Jewish movement in South Africa

5 years ago in

(Author: David Saks, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) Of all South Africa’s minority groups, the Jewish community is “among the most thoroughly dissected and psychoanalysed” observes Irwin Manoim at the beginning of Mavericks Inside the Tent – The Progressive Jewish movement

He does not die a death of shame

5 years ago in

(Reviewer: Leonard Suransky, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) As someone who lived through the Johannesburg of the 1950s and 60s, I recommend Jack Hoffmann’s novel, He Does Not Die a Death of Shame, to anyone from that era. Why? The author has

Old Arcadians Look Back: 100 Years of Arc Memories and More Arc Memories

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: David Saks,Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) The South African Jewish Orphanage, better known as Arcadia after the premises it occupied in Parktown for most of its existence, has been a vital part of the Jewish communal fabric for over a century.

On the Contrary- Leading the Opposition in a Democratic South Africa

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) At a launch of this book in Johannesburg, the author Tony Leon said that, if nothing else, it would prove useful for throwing at an intruder. On the Contrary – Leading the Opposition in a

Outwitting History

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: Robert Schwarz, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) From time to time, the media have been warning the public of the peril of losing a number of animal species which had not even been on the endangered list for any length of

Rising Tide – How Freedom with Responsibility Uplifts Everyone

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Over the past two decades Jack Bloom, a senior member of the DA caucus in the Gauteng Legislature, has acquired for himself a well-founded reputation as an astute, incisive thinker, one whose views are

The Quest for Community: A Short History of Jewish Communal Institutions in South Africa, 1841-1939

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 64, #3, 2009) How exactly does an organised Jewish community – that is, one whose members are served by and brought together under formal communal institutions – come into being? Those born into a society where such institutions are already

The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Edwin Black’s The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust is a penetrating and insightful look into the Islamic-Nazi alliance of World War II, the bloody pogrom of Jews by Arab mobs in Baghdad

The Other Booker Prize

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: Hilda Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Doctor Azila Talit Reisenberger, Head of the Hebrew Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and author of a number of well-known poetry books and plays in both English and Hebrew, has produced a most entertaining

The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century (2010)

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: Roy Robins, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century (2010) is an enormous and informative compendium of capsule biographies and concise critical essays on notable novelists, essayists, playwrights and poets. In the book’s foreword, editor

Reform Judaism for Litvaks? A new history of the Progressive Jewish movement in South Africa

He does not die a death of shame

Old Arcadians Look Back: 100 Years of Arc Memories and More Arc Memories

On the Contrary- Leading the Opposition in a Democratic South Africa

Outwitting History

Rising Tide – How Freedom with Responsibility Uplifts Everyone

The Quest for Community: A Short History of Jewish Communal Institutions in South Africa, 1841-1939

The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust

The Other Booker Prize

The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century (2010)

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