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(Reviewer: Kenneth Hughes, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016) There is no getting away from it: David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition is the kind of book of which one says simply, it marks an epoch; it is a great work. It is a

What a Boykie: The John Berks Story

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(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016) Many youngsters today will not have heard of John Berks (born Berkowitz), but there are few of the over forties who do not remember Berksie with warmth and affection. The author Robin Binckes mentions that he

Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist

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(Reviewer: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) In this autobiography, Dr Debbie Weissman describes the events in her life that turned her from a child born to secular Zionist parents living in America during World War II into the Shomer Shabbat woman

The Ochberg Orphans and the horrors from which they came (Vol. II)

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(Reviewer: Lionel Slier, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) In 2011 the name Isaac Ochberg became well known in local Jewish circles. The main reason was that year, David Sandler from Perth, Western Australia, issued a book about Ochberg, a Capetonian who in 1921

Making David into Goliath

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(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) I have often wondered how from being supported by the greater part of the world (barring Arab/Muslim and Soviet Bloc countries), including by the non-Stalinist Left, Israel has become a victim of unrelenting hatred, including

Nonviolent Resistance to the Nazis

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(REVIEWER - David Saks, Vol. 72, #1, Pesach 2017) In November 1938, shortly after the Kristallnacht pogrom, the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas K Gandhi controversially advised German Jews to respond to their persecution by engaging in dignified passive resistance, assuring them that whatever suffering they

Our Litvak Inheritance and Our South African Jewish Inheritance

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(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol 72, #1, Pesach 2017) David Sandler spent most of his childhood (1954-1969) in the South African Jewish Orphanage (Arcadia), and now lives in Perth, Australia. With these two volumes, he has compiled an extensive documentary history of Lithuanian Jewry and those

The Last Hurrah: South Africa and the Royal Tour of 1947

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(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 74, No. 1, Pesach 2019) One of the many poignant and symbolically resonant incidents recorded in this excellent account of the 1947 Royal Visit to South Africa occurs on page 151, where it is related how at the end of the

The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde

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(Reviewer: Marcia Leveson, Vol. 72, No. 1, Pesach 2017) Jules Browde was unique, an irreplaceable asset to our society. Besides his formidable reputation as a lawyer – particularly as a fierce defender of human rights - he had an enormous vitality, empathy and curiosity about

Pogrom, Kishinev and the tilt of history

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(Author: Milton Shain, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018) Israel’s national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik captured it in poetry; the Irish republican Michael Davitt drew on reports about it for a book; political activist Emma Goldman professionally engaged with it, and the National Association

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

What a Boykie: The John Berks Story

Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist

The Ochberg Orphans and the horrors from which they came (Vol. II)

Making David into Goliath

Nonviolent Resistance to the Nazis

Our Litvak Inheritance and Our South African Jewish Inheritance

The Last Hurrah: South Africa and the Royal Tour of 1947

The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde

Pogrom, Kishinev and the tilt of history

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