(Author: Mr. Justice Ralph Zulman, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) The author, David Saks, is a distinguished historian and journalist who writes extensively on South African Jewish political and military history in various local and international publications. He is the Associate Director
(Reviewer: Chuck Volpe, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Anthony Julius first entered the public arena as Princess Diana’s lawyer, testimony in itself to his professional acumen and his ability to transcend royal social constraints. But it was his representation of Deborah Lipstadt
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) In this book Jamie Glazov, managing editor of Front Page magazine, deals with the strong support for totalitarian states and terrorist organizations by left wing radicals from the 1920s until today. The author would
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) The young Lorna Borkum, only child of a middle class, liberal-leaning Johannesburg Jewish couple, grew up with a keen sense of the injustices that were being inflicted on black South Africans. As a university student in
(Reviewer: Estelle Sher, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Leo Zeitlin – Chamber Music is an informative, fascinating and superbly detailed study of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930), a superbly talented composer, arranger, violinist, violist, conductor, impresario and teacher. It not only gives us the story of
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) A controversy currently raging over apparent suggestions in a new biography of Gandhi that he and the German-Jewish architect Herman Kallenbach may have had a homosexual relationship lends an added dimension of interest to these
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Currently nearing completion is a comprehensive new history of the Jewish community of South West Africa/Namibia. When it appears, hopefully later this year, one of those featuring in it will be the distinguished lawyer, historian
(Reviewer: Arlene Segal, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) L’Afrique is a gem of a book that resonates with the mood of the 1960s. It captures the excitement of intuitive art explorations taking place in Johannesburg, at Wits, in studios and schools and in
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) At the beginning of the last century, the proportion of world Jewry whose home language was English was little more than 5%. Perhaps half of the total would have been living on the European mainland,
(Author: David Klepper, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) Tina Frühauf, born to a non-Jewish German family, developed an early interest in music and decided to become a keyboard performer, with emphasis on the organ. She then discovered an old print of German-Jewish cantorial