(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) To have lived as a white person in South Africa during the apartheid years was to have lived with a poisoned gift. Having been born into a Jewish family who had made their home there,
Editor’s note: Books by and about Jewish participants in the anti-apartheid movement began rolling off the presses even before the final demise of white minority rule in April 1994 and continue to do so even today. In 2011, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies
(Author: Boris Gorelik, Vol. 77 * No. 1 * Summer 2022) Reading on the immigration of Russian Jews to South Africa, you may come across such statements as: ‘The Tsarist government refused to protect their Jewish nationals’.[1] Other authors go further, declaring that
(Author: Ivan Kapelus, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) Feature image: Afrikaans, English and Jewish members of the Pietersburg Ambulance Fund Committee, 1929-1930 The 1930 Quota Act was aimed at severely curtailing Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, primarily from Lithuania. This Minister of Interior
(Author: Ivan P Kapelus, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) Introduction I crave your indulgence! I would like to start this discussion in the middle, as it were, by quoting from a four thousand-word article by Dr H F Verwoerd (later National
(Author: Irwin Manoim, Vol. 75 * No. 4 * Spring 2020) On a Tuesday afternoon in early May this year, Rabbi Andre Ungar, aged 90, settled down for his afternoon nap. He never got up, dying peacefully in his sleep. Due to Covid19 lockdown
(Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009)
(Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) JA: You embarked on your political career in the early 1990s. Could you tell me a little bit about your background and activities prior to that? RR: I was born Ruth Zilibowitz in Springs. My parents, like
(Author: Barbara Brown, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Editor’s note: During the 1950s, a little remembered trio of Jewish Labour Party MPs – Alex Hepple, Hyman Davidoff and Leo Lovell – vigorously opposed the mounting tide of apartheid legislation. Lovell’s life and
(Author: Colin Eglin, Vol 64, #3, Chanukah 2009) Helen and I first met in June 1954, over lunch in the Oak Room of the Manchester Hotel that once stood at the corner of Strand and Burg Streets, Cape Town. I was about to become