Jewish History – South Africa – Page 20

The Rabbinate and South African Politics, 1898 to the present

6 years ago in

(Author: Naomi Musiker, Vol. 71, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2016) At the close of the 19th Century, the leading Jewish congregations in Johannesburg were the Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation (WOHC), the Johannesburg Hebrew Congregation and the Johannesburg Orthodox Hebrew Congregation. The first two were

Jews in the Legal Profession in South Africa

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(Author: Dennis Davis, Vol. 71, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2016) There is a photograph of Jewish judges of what is now the Gauteng High Court taken in 2000. Nine judges feature, which meant that at that time more than 20% of the judicial complement

GRIT in inteGRITy

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(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 75, #4, Spring, 2020) Charlotte Cohen, a regular contributor to Jewish Affairs, is an award-winning short’ story writer and poet, whose work has appeared in a wide variety of South African publications since the early 1970s. The passage was a

My other father

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(Author: Maurice Skikne, Vol. 72, No. 3, Chanukah 2017) Jack – or ‘Jeck’ as my maternal Bobba called him - was tall and bordering on slim, black as the proverbial Ace of Spades. Hair already streaked with grey, no one knew his age, nor

Editorial – South African Jewry turns 175

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(Vol. 71, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2016) This year, a number of commemorative events have been held to mark 175 years of Jewish communal life in South Africa. Inter alia, it was the keynote theme of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies Gauteng Council

The founding and early decades of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, Mother congregation of SA Jewry

6 years ago in

(Author: Solly Berger, Vol. 71, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2016) Tikvat Israel - the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation (CTHC) - was founded in 1841. This makes it, after the Sydney Hebrew Congregation, the oldest Jewish congregation in the southern hemisphere. Until the 17th Century,

‘A Light unto the Nations’ – The role of Jewish business in South Africa

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(Author: Philip Krawitz, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016) Feature image: Businessmen and philanthropists Eric Samson and Bertie Lubner, SAJBD National Conference, 2013 Cast your mind back a few years..... As a Capetonian, you leave your Sea Point Apartment designed by Dennis Fabian and built

Naomi Deborah Jacobson – Her Life and Creations

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Naomi Jacobson, with husband Larry, working on a larger-than-life statue of Steve Biko Naomi initially worked in clay but was introduced to cement fondu, a metal cement from France, by the famed British sculptor Frank McWilliam. He had been commissioned to sculpt the head of

The Jewish role in the Visual Arts and Cultural History of South Africa

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(Author: Stefan Welz, Vol. 72, No. 3, Chanukah 2017) Stephan Welz (1943 - 2015) Indirectly, the history of the Jews in South Africa starts in the late 15th Century with Jewish involvement with early Portuguese explorers, as cartographers and astronomers. Over the years there was

The Blue Newsboy and the Doctor

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(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 72, #2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) The first Jewish doctor in South Africa was Moshe ben Sechel - Sechel Fraenkel - known as Siegfried Fraenkel. In 1808, he received a license from the Supreme Medical Committee to practice as a surgeon,

The Rabbinate and South African Politics, 1898 to the present

Jews in the Legal Profession in South Africa

GRIT in inteGRITy

My other father

Editorial – South African Jewry turns 175

The founding and early decades of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, Mother congregation of SA Jewry

‘A Light unto the Nations’ – The role of Jewish business in South Africa

Naomi Deborah Jacobson – Her Life and Creations

The Jewish role in the Visual Arts and Cultural History of South Africa

The Blue Newsboy and the Doctor

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