(Author: Tony Leon, Vol. 64, #3, Chanukah, 2009) The Jews of Harbin existed for only 82 of the 6000-plus years of Chinese history recorded since the advent of the Xian Dynasty founded in 2100 BCE. Yet, in many ways, like the Jewish community of
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) Feature image: View of Kommetjie, early 20th Century The year 2006 marked the centenary of the declaration by the French Court of Appeal that the evidence against Alfred Dreyfus was completely unsubstantiated; moreover, that no conclusive
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Already in the Talmud, there is a reference to the military strength of ‘Germania’ (or ‘Germamia’) and its threat to the Roman Empire.1 Accompanying the Roman legions manning the German border were the first Jews
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) Jews probably lived in Britain from as early as mid-Roman times. After the destruction of the Second Temple in CE 70, the Roman world was flooded with Jewish slaves and it is likely that a
(Author Anny Wynchank, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) The Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU)1 is a Paris-based international Jewish organization. Over 150 years old, it was founded in Paris in 1860 by Adolphe Crémieux and six other prominent French Jews. It is probably the
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) It is not every day that Cape Town’s Cape Jewish Chronicle receives an e-mail from overseas asking for something that had appeared in one of its distant back issues. The item requested in this particular
(Author: Hazel Frankel, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Feature image: Pre-war bochrim of the Baranovitch Yeshiva Hazel Frankel is a Johannesburg-based novelist, poet and educator. She has recently completed a PhD on the South African Yiddish poet David Fram. Sarah Levine, née Polonetski, was
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) Feature image: Turkish Jews. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turkish_jews.jpg The Jewish connection with Turkey dates to Biblical times. Abraham settled in Haran, where Terah died, on the way from Ur Kasdim before continuing his journey to Canaan.1
(Author: Richard Burns, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) Feature image: Flag of Jews in Serbia. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Jews_in_Serbia.png The geo-historical zone of the Balkans is notoriously full of contradictions. Yet, a fuller understanding of current and recent attitudes and policies in each of the
