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Forever Linked – Rhodos 2014

6 years ago in

(Author: Maurice Turiel, Vol. 69, No. 3, Chanukah 2014) We came from all over the world, from Caracas to Cancun; from Seattle to Sydney; from Hong Kong to Cape Town. We were all there, 400 of us on Rhodes, to commemorate the deportation of our

War Poet Isaac Rosenberg – The South African Connection

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(Author: Stephen Gray, Vol. 69, No. 3, Chanukah 2014) Stephen Gray is a distinguished South African poet, novelist, literary critic and academic. This article first appeared under the title “A ‘half-used life’ blasted to extinction” in the 4 July 2014 issue of the Mail &

Jewish Life in South West Africa Namibia: A History

6 years ago in

(Reviewer: Naomi Musiker, Vol. 70, No. 1, Pesach 2015) Although there are in existence a great many books on the history of Namibia, formerly South West Africa, the book under review is the first to comprehensively outline the history of the Jewish community in

Dardanelles, Dried Flowers and a Dried Leaf: Who was J Rabinowitz Drechsler?

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 70, No. 3, Chanukah 2015) What are the Dardanelles, who was J Rabinowitz Drechsler and what is the significance of an old brown leaf? These were the questions that came to mind when opening the book Blumen von Heiligen Lande

British Fascists and the Jews

6 years ago in

(Author: Gabriel A. Sivan, Vol. 71, No. 1, Pesach 2016) Like many, I thought that organized antisemitism in the United Kingdom had its origin in Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) until a book by Colin Cross entitled The Fascists in Britain

Philanthropists Extraordinaire: The Legacy of the Wolfson and Wohl Families

6 years ago in

(Author: David Sher, Vol. 72, No. 3, Chanukah 2017) In the Rosh Hashanah 2017 issue of Jewish Affairs, I provided a brief history and present-day description of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, in the course of which I touched on the crucial support provided by

Rabbi B M Casper and the Jewish Infantry Brigade in World War II

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(Author: Barbara Rigden, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016) In 1897, the World Zionist Organisation was founded with the aim of re-establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then still part of the Ottoman Empire. Using the Jewish population already existing in the territory as

A brief journey through French Jewish history

6 years ago in

(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016) By the time of Julius Caesar’s conquest in 58-51 B.C.E. until the invasion of the Barbarians in the 5th Century, Gaul – as France was originally known - was a province of the Roman Empire. The

Indian Jewry and the First World War

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(Author: Anthony N Pamm, Vol. 72, No. 3, Chanukah 2017) At the time of the First World War, Indian Jewry1 comprised four basic component subgroups, two of them going back to ancient times and two of comparatively recent origin. The older groupings were the

Chicago

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(Author: Bernard Levinson, Vol. 72, No. 1, Pesach 2017) Snow is falling. I can smell the snow. There is always snow in my memories. My soul is layered with the cold winters of Chicago. I don’t know for sure if snow was actually falling on

Forever Linked – Rhodos 2014

War Poet Isaac Rosenberg – The South African Connection

Jewish Life in South West Africa Namibia: A History

Dardanelles, Dried Flowers and a Dried Leaf: Who was J Rabinowitz Drechsler?

British Fascists and the Jews

Philanthropists Extraordinaire: The Legacy of the Wolfson and Wohl Families

Rabbi B M Casper and the Jewish Infantry Brigade in World War II

A brief journey through French Jewish history

Indian Jewry and the First World War

Chicago

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