[Reviewer: David Saks, Vol 79, #2, Summer 2024) I may be sticking my neck out here, but it may well be that no other Jewish community anywhere has gone about recording its own history with as much avidity as that of South Africa’s. It
(Interview with Lynn Joffe, Vol. 78, #3, Spring-Summer 2023) EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ‘A fizzing, fulsome and fiercely funny heroine, and a novel charged with music, energy, bounce, juice and joy. Like a Jewish Molly Bloom, let loose on history. I love the way
(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
(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
(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
(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: 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 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
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Most people by now automatically accept unquestioningly the notion that there is an irreconcilable and unbridgeable gulf between ‘Religion’ and ‘Science’ (sometimes tellingly replaced by the respective terms ‘Faith’ and ‘Reason’). It is also by
(Reviewer: Cedric Ginsberg, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) The South African Jewish Community is unique among the communities in the Jewish world – and nowhere is this more evident than in the pages of this book. It is a relatively young community. It