Jewish History – South Africa – Page 21

The attitude of South African Jewry to German Jewish refugees seeking asylum in South Africa

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(Author: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’ poignant remarks about ‘we’ and ‘they’, made in his key-note address at the SA Jewish Board of Deputies Gauteng conference in 2016, brought to mind an unfortunate blemish on part

29 November 1947 – How South African Jewry received the news

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‘A R’ Editor’s Note: Seventy years ago, on 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted by a requisite two-thirds majority to adopt, as Resolution 181(II), the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. The resolution, which recommended the division of the Palestine Mandate territory

The Record Player – Memories of Music, Melodies and Menschen

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(Author: Charlie Nates, Vol 72, #1, Pesach 2017) I was born in 1934 to parents who had left Lithuania and immigrated to Cape Town in the late 1920s. When I turned eight, we moved into our very own home in the Gardens area of

The Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Seders

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Author: Debbie Orolowitz, Vol 72, #1, Pesach 2017) If I am not for myself... The theme of freedom is not subtle in the Passover Seder. The holiday itself is known as Z’Man Cheruteinu (‘the Time of our Freedom’). Arguably, the keynote theme of the

My Uncle, the Doctor: The life and times of Hartwig Buxbaum (Part II)

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(Author: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 72, #1, Pesach 2017) Dr Hartwig Buxbaum In the early 1930s my late uncle Dr Hartwig Buxbaum left Germany to obtain further medical degrees from Edinburgh and Glasgow so as to be registered with the medical council of South Africa. His

Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2018, with additions for 2014-2017

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(Author: Juan-Paul Burke, Vol 74, #1, Pesach 2019) This bibliography follows on from the one that appeared, under the title ‘Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2014-2017’ in the Pesach 2018 issue of Jewish Affairs. As the title suggests,

Queen Victoria, broad-minded women and the Marks family scrapbook

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 74, #1, Pesach, 2019) My hands were genuinely shaking as I opened the packet I had just received and inside it found a very old scrapbook, nearly 120 years old as it turned out. A frail, tattered red cloth-bound book with

The Yiddishe Folkshul un Kindergarten: Memories of a past era

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(Author: Shirley Zar, Vol. 72, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2017) In 2013 the Yiddish Folkschool nursery school in Sydenham, Johannesburg, hosted a Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremony to which former pupils were invited. Andy Haefner, the headmistress, wrote: “I have begun to feel very strongly about our

Herber House: “A Hostel for Jewish children” (Part III)

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(Author: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 75 * No. 1 * Summer 2020) This is the third and final part of my paper looking at the establishment, running and final closure of Herber House, a hostel for Jewish schoolchildren in Johannesburg established under the auspices of the

Cape Town Jewry and the 1918 Flu Pandemic

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(Author: Howard Phillips, Vol. 75, #2, Autumn 2020) [Note: In 1918 they had no antibiotics, no paracetamol, no ventilators and did not know that viruses existed. What they did have was eggnogs, garlic, lemons, enemas, mustard plasters and red medicine, a knowledge of social

The attitude of South African Jewry to German Jewish refugees seeking asylum in South Africa

29 November 1947 – How South African Jewry received the news

The Record Player – Memories of Music, Melodies and Menschen

The Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Seders

My Uncle, the Doctor: The life and times of Hartwig Buxbaum (Part II)

Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2018, with additions for 2014-2017

Queen Victoria, broad-minded women and the Marks family scrapbook

The Yiddishe Folkshul un Kindergarten: Memories of a past era

Herber House: “A Hostel for Jewish children” (Part III)

Cape Town Jewry and the 1918 Flu Pandemic

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