(Author: Steven Katzew, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn 2026) Picture the scene: the 27th of July 1974, Ellis Park, Johannesburg, considered the fortress of South African rugby. A crowd of 75 000 predominantly South African supporters hoping for the salvaging of some pride by the
(Author: Steve Katzew, Vol. 79, #1, Winter 2024) I’ve always maintained that humankind is at its best in partnerships across lines of differences in race, religion, and nationality. The Jewish experience in South Africa bears this out. The giddying heights reached by disparate
Juan-Paul Burke This is a follow on from the bibliography presented in JA Spring 2020 Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2019 & additions for 2014-2018. As the title suggests, you can expect to find the years
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) As literary executrix to the ‘father of Afrikaans literature’ and Senator in the Union Parliament, Cornelis Jakobus Langenhoven (1873-1932), the name of Sarah Goldblatt (1889-1975) has become synonymous with the fight for
(Author: Dominique Malherbe, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) The following extract is taken from 23-27 of Searching for Sarah: the Women Who Loved Langenhoven by Dominique Malherbe, Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021. JA thanks Tafelberg for permission to include here. One of
(Author: Kathy Munro, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) Art publishing impresario and photographer Helen Aron, who passed away in Johannesburg on 11 January 2020, was a unique Johannesburg character. A documentary and art photographer of Johannesburg’s disappearing past and a woman
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) . A recent gift to the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies of a 1955 Jewish National Fund (JNF) charity programme has brought back memories of a forgotten part of South African Zionist history.
(Author: Juan-Paul Burke, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) This is a follow on from the bibliography presented in JA Pesach 2019 Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2018 & additions for 2014-2017. As the title suggests,
(Author: Brian Josselowitz, Vol. 75 * No. 3 * Winter 2020) Dr Egonne Roth, a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and biographer of Olga Kirsch1, was surprised to learn that Jennifer Friedman, author of the childhood memoir Queen of the Free State and
(Author: Kathy Munro, Vol. 76 * No. 1 * Summer 2021) Kathy Munro is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. Trained as an economic historian, she enjoyed a long career as an academic and