Prisoners of the Nazis
Prisoners of the Nazis
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(Authors: I S Marks, L Sandground, Vol. 70, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2015) Editors’ note: Shortly after the war, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies approached various Jewish former POWs, requesting them to provide a written account of their time in captivity. These testimonies
John Simon
John Simon
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JOHN SIMON (1931-2015) (Vol. 70, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2015) On 3 August, South African Jewry was deprived of a distinguished Jewish leader and one of its finest Judaic scholars with the passing in Cape Town of John Simon. By profession an attorney, Simon went
South African Jewry at War – Photo Gallery (1)
South African Jewry at War – Photo Gallery (1)
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(Vol. 70, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2015) Jewish troops, with their chaplain, North Africa Pte M. Goldstein, M.C Capt. S Rosenberg, MBE, Mentioned in Dispatches Lt-Col D H Levinkind,M.C. & M.B.E. L/Cpl A Ruda, MilitaryMedal Capt. A B Widman (left), in the field during the
South African Jewry at War – Photo Gallery (2)
South African Jewry at War – Photo Gallery (2)
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(Vol. 70, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2015) Richard and Erwin Jonas, who arrived in South Africa as refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s, both served in North Africa, Richard as a staff sergeant in the Medical Corps and Erwin as a tank driver.
Veterans’ Voices
Veterans’ Voices
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(Vol. 70, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2015) Editor’s Note: This year, the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II is, in all likelihood, the last significant milestone in which those who took part in the war will still be with us to tell
Revealing invisible realms in the Spiritual Universe: The Art of Abigail Sarah Bagraim
Revealing invisible realms in the Spiritual Universe: The Art of Abigail Sarah Bagraim
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(Author: Ute Ben Yosef, Vol. 70, No. 1, Pesach 2015) Abigail Sarah Bagraim is a mystical painter whose Jewish identity is intrinsic to her art. It is this distinctiveness that makes it impossible to align her work with any other South African contemporary art
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion comes to South Africa (Part I)
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion comes to South Africa (Part I)
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(Author: Hadassa Ben-Itto, Vol. 70, No. 3, Chanukah 2015) Editor’s Note: The following constitutes the first of a three-part feature reprinting (with slight editing) Chapter 10, as well as the relevant section of Chapter 12 of Hadassa Ben-Itto’s landmark book The Lie That Wouldn’t
Keeper of the Hearth: The Art of Gwen van Embden
Keeper of the Hearth: The Art of Gwen van Embden
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(Author: Ute Ben Yosef, Vol. 70, No. 3, Chanukah 2015) "It is about what’s left over”1 Gwen van Embden’s creativity centres in her search for the self. Her visual language ranges from conceptual and performance art to silver pen drawing and painting in oil.
Colonial Port Jews – The Jews of Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Colonial Port Jews – The Jews of Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
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(Author: Saul Issroff, Vol. 71, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2016) In his 1999 paper ‘The Port Jew: Notes Toward a Social Type’1 David Sorkin, drawing on his work on Sephardi and Italian Jews living in Mediterranean, Atlantic and West Indian seaports between the 17th and