Jewish History – South Africa – Page 22

The Bubonic Plague and the Jews in Cape Town, 1901

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 75 * No. 2 * Autumn 2020) The advent of HIV/AIDS, the most extensive and fearful pandemic the world had known, made all previous pandemics pale in significance. Previously the most feared was the plague, from the Latin plaga meaning

The 2004 Tsunami and South African Jewry

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Author: David Saks, Vol. 75, #2, Autumn, 2020) When the ocean waters abruptly receded on the morning of 26 December 2004, it was a last-second warning to those lining the beaches throughout the eastern Indian Ocean that a massive catastrophe was about to unfold.

Our Johannesburg

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(Author: Lionel Slier, Vol. 75, #2, Autumn, 2020) Feature image: Detail from Doornfontein Hebrew Congregation (Lions Shul): Watercolour by Jay Waronker Not long ago, I read an article in an Australian publication where the following informed guess was made about the number of Jews living

The Transvaal Automobile Club – Nursery of Jewish Squash Stars

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(Author: Steven Katzew, Vol. 75, #1, Summer 2020) This is a story about a few good men passionate about the game of squash who, through using their own resources and endeavours, guided Johannesburg’s, and perhaps even South Africa’s, best known squash club, the Transvaal Automobile

Sydney Clouts: South African Jewish Poet

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(Author: Marge Clouts, Vol 75, # 1, Summer 2020) ‘...at his best, Sydney Clouts was the best: the most intellectually challenging, formally daring, and aesthetically sophisticated poet of the national corpus.’ This quote comes from Prof Dan Wylie's 2018 critical biography of the poet

SA Jewry under Apartheid – A very old debate revisited

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(Author: David Saks, Vol. 75 * No. 1 * Summer 2020) Even before South Africa’s transition from white minority rule to multiracial democracy in April 1994, a veritable flurry of discussion had gotten underway within Jewish circles concerning the community’s political behaviour under apartheid. The

A Wunderkind in Wonderland

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(Author: Douglas Davis, Vol. 75, #1, Summer 2020) I didn’t know what to expect, but there was no doubt that the figure striding confidently into the car park of the Jerusalem Post was Denis Goldberg. He looked completely at ease; as though he belonged;

Did the SAJBD sit on the fence under Apartheid?

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 75, #1, Summer, 2020) Recently, I was interviewed for a seven-part television series, named Legends and Legacy: A History of South African Jews, being prepared with the assistance of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies & Research at the University

Herber House: ‘A Hostel for Jewish Children (Part II)

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(Author: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 74 * No. 3 * Chanukah 2019) This the second 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 SA Board

Mementos of the Anglo-Boer War

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol 74, #3, Chanukah 2019) “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories,” wrote bestselling Japanese writer and Jerusalem Prize winner Haruki Murakami. However, the same does not hold true of one’s

The Bubonic Plague and the Jews in Cape Town, 1901

The 2004 Tsunami and South African Jewry

Our Johannesburg

The Transvaal Automobile Club – Nursery of Jewish Squash Stars

Sydney Clouts: South African Jewish Poet

SA Jewry under Apartheid – A very old debate revisited

A Wunderkind in Wonderland

Did the SAJBD sit on the fence under Apartheid?

Herber House: ‘A Hostel for Jewish Children (Part II)

Mementos of the Anglo-Boer War

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