(by Naomi Musiker, Vol. 71, No. 1, Pesach 2016)   Editor’s Note: In December 2015, the editorial board of Jewish Affairs lost one of its most loved and esteemed members, and South African Jewry one of its most venerated academics, with the passing of Professor

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Kathy Munro Elaine Katz (1935-2017) Dr Elaine Katz, long serving member of the Editorial Board of Jewish Affairs, author, academic, fine researcher, scholar and a close friend and colleague passed away after a short illness on 21 February 2017. Elaine was a South African historian

(Vol. 63, #3, Chanukah 2008)   Dr. Schneir Levin, who passed away in Johannesburg on Yom Kippur at the age of 83, was a much beloved paediatrician who will be fondly remembered by several generations of parents whose children he tended with his expertise and

(Vol. 63, #3, Chanukah 2008)   Aleck Goldberg, who passed away just after Succot at the age of 85, was a much loved and respected Jewish communal leader. A true scholar and gentleman, he epitomised the dedication and professionalism that characterised a now vanished era

(Vol. 63, # 3, Chanukah 2008)   The untimely passing of Dr. Jocelyn Hellig, one of South African Jewry’s most respected scholars, writers and communal leaders, was a grievous loss to the community as a whole and to Jewish Affairs in particular. She was an