(Author: Milton Shain, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Feature image: Mendel Kaplan Kaplan Receives an honorary doctorate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof Don Patinkin Editor’s note: International Jewry, and South African Jewry in particular, were stunned by the sudden death of Mendel Kaplan on
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Feature image: Engraved silver salver presented to Bertha Solomon, MP, in the collection of the SAJBD – Cape Despite the losses incurred through the centuries from pogroms, persecutions, book burnings and looting, Jews have always
(Author: Naomi Musiker, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) A newspaper, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is ‘a daily or weekly publication containing news and articles on current affairs’. This is as opposed to a periodical, which is a ‘magazine or newspaper
(Author: Natalie Knight, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) My first encounter with Esmé Berman was when I was asked to interview her for a Jewish newspaper. Her reputation preceded her – art historian, critic, lecturer broadcaster and the forerunner in the research and
(Authors: Madeleine Georgette, Natalie Knight, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) EDITOR’S NOTE: From 22 August to 29 September 2012, a compelling new art exhibition documenting the story of South Africa’s transition from Apartheid to Democracy was on show at the Origins Centre, University
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) A cookbook bearing the most unusual name of Bread and peacocks: a Cookery Book: Exotic Recipes, by Sarah Shaban, described as “a prominent hostess in South Africa”, was published in London by Grosvenor Publishing Co.
(Author: Naomi Jacobson, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) My grandfather was the famed Yiddish writer and scholar David Goldblatt, who is best remembered today for his two-volume Yiddish Encyclopaedia, written (amongst other publications) after his relocation to New York in 1915. He
(Author: Frank Startz, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) David Goldblatt has spent much of his life as a photographer recording and chronicling many aspects of South African history as it unfolded, especially but not exclusively during the apartheid years. His objectivity, honesty
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(Author: Ute Ben-Yosef, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Moses Kottler was one of the most distinguished South African Jewish sculptors, probably best known for the controversy that erupted when puritanical civil servants forced the removal of his relief sculpture, intended for the Population Registration