(Author: Bernard Levinson, Vol. 64, #3, Chanukah 2009) Group 4. It sounds like a high powered enclave of politicians meeting in the Swiss Alps, deciding the fate of the world… At the end of the Nineteenth Century, certain like-minded Impressionists met at the same
(Author: Lana Jacobson, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) On 25 May 2009, the Spiegel/Stein-Lessing Wing for African Art in MuseumAfrica will be dedicated to honor two distinguished German Jewish pioneers of African art. After their marriage in the mid-1940s, Dr. Maria Stein-Lessing and Leopold
(Author: Naomi Dison Kaplan, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) When one asks writers why they write, their answers vary slightly, but on the whole all stress that it is not about choice – they write because they have to. It is an
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Cape Town’s oldest Jewish bookstore M. Beinkinstadt, established in 1903 by Moshe Beinkinstadt, remained in the hands of his descendants for 105 years. Situated on the outskirts of District Six, site of the earliest Jewish
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Feature image: Ullmann Statue, Ernest Ullmann Park (by kind permission of The Heritage Portal. See http://www.theheritageportal.co.za/article/life-iconic-artist-sculptor-and-designer-ernest-ullmann) “The contribution of the German immigrants was that they recognised the value of African art at a time
(Author: Cedric Ginsberg, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) It is now almost a year since the untimely passing of Joseph Sherman, scholar, translator, lover of Yiddish, raconteur. In 2001, he left South Africa to take up the position of Woolf Corob Professor of Yiddish
(Author: Astrid Starck1, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010. First published Jewish Affairs, Winter, 1995. Translated from the French by Karen-Anne Durbach) Editor’s Note: Many of the stories discussed in this essay have been published in English translation, together with a detailed introduction to the
(Author: Joseph Sherman, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) (First published Jewish Affairs, Spring 1993) The history of the Yiddish press in South Africa goes back over a century. The country’s first Yiddish newspaper, Der Afrikaner Israelit, was found in Johannesburg in 1890 by Nehemiah
(Author: Joseph Sherman, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Editor’s Note: This essay, suitably abridged, by the late Dr. Joseph Sherman first appeared in A World Too Wide: Essays on Libraries and Other Themes in Honour of Reuben Musiker (edited by Dr. Sherman, University of
(Author: Marcia Leveson, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2020) In her recent autobiographical account, A Memoir of Love and Madness (2009), Rahla Xeneopolous wrote: “What is it with Jews and wandering? Like the lost tribes, we’re scattered and flung to the four corners of the