(Author: Norman Sher, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Feature image: The author (self portrait) Early in June 1964, I arrived at the entrance of the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court to commence my first day as a public prosecutor. It was a day of trepidation.
(Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) .[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]Harold Rudolph, who passed away in Johannesburg on 16 November at the age of 64, rubbed shoulders with kings and world leaders. He had honours bestowed on him before and after he became mayor during Johannesburg’s centenary in 1986. At
(Author: David Saks, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) At the opening of the 46th National Conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies on 27 August 2011, the SAJBD Human Rights Award was presented posthumously to Arthur Goldreich. At the presentation of the
(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
(Author: Frank Startz, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) Sidney Goldblatt was born in Johannesburg, of Lithuanian Jewish parents, in 1919. He grew up in Johannesburg and attended Parktown Boys High School. After matriculating, he spent ten years in business and was employed by
(Author: Natalie Knight, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) When I interviewed Herman Wald in his studio in 1970, three weeks before his sudden death at the age of 64, I was intrigued to find an artist who was conflicted about religion. He was
(Author: Ute Ben Yosef, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) On 2 June 2011, Deneys Kottler and Louis Wald met for the first time at Louis’s home in Finchley, London. Both are sons of great South African Jewish sculptors and both had grown up,
(Author: Edna Bradlow, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) Feature image: Cousins Eli Stein and Eli Katz, Cape Town, 1912 As Joachim Pinz notes,1 Jews have always been immigrants, forced at times to leave centuries-old homelands, rebuilding their lives. Rabbonim ensured that Jewish
(Author: Gita Gordon, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) The latest royal wedding has brought back memories of another royal occasion, in a time and place far removed from 21st Century London. At that time I was three years old, so perhaps “memories” is
(An interview with Michael Schneider, Vol. 66, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2011) Editor’s note: Born in the Boland, and long before his distinguished career in Jewish communal affairs, Michael Schneider, Secretary General Emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, played a dramatic but comparatively little-known role in