Jewish History – South Africa – Page 24

Unlikely Vigilantes – Extra-judicial responses to Nazi movements in South Africa

8 years ago in

(Author: David Saks, Vol. 72, No. 1, Pesach 2018) During the last decades of the 19th Century, the South African Jewish community embarked on a sustained period of dramatic growth, primarily as a result of immigration from Eastern Europe. One of the unfortunate, if probably

Helen Suzman Blue Plaque unveiling

8 years ago in

(Author: Kathy Munro, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2018) 7 November 2017 marked the centenary of the Russian Revolution, and also of the birth of one of South Africa’s greatest 20th Century daughters, Helen Suzman. On Friday, 3 November, a small group gathered to remember

Jews and the formation of the South African newspaper industry

8 years ago in

(Author: Irwin Manoim, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2018) Do Jews control the newspapers? Type that question into Google and you will enter a netherworld of conspiracies in which the ‘Jewish’ media magnates Anton Rupert, Trevor Manuel, Harry Oppenheimer and Alec Erwin conspired with

Butch Ben Yok

8 years ago in

MILTON “BUTCH” BOTTGER ( BUTCH BEN YOK) - Radio Operator 3RD DECEMBER 1924 - 29 TH OCTOBER 2008 (Author: Zan Swartzberg, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) In Air Force and military circles in Israel, if you ask who may MILTON BOTTGER be,

Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2014-2017

8 years ago in

(Author: Juan-Paul Burke, Vol. 73, No. 1, Pesach 2018) At the end of 2016, I was asked to compile a bibliography of articles, books and theses as pertain to South African Jewry and Jewish Studies. I knew a few academics writing in the field, but

Olga Kirsch’s Jewish Poetry

8 years ago in

(Author: Egonne Roth, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018) It is exactly 70 years since the South African Jewish poet Olga Kirsch decided to leave her homeland and make aliya. She arrived in Israel in November 1948. It is also seventy years since her

Uprooted and uncompensated: the mistreatment of ‘Russian’ Jews by Perfidious Albion during and after the Anglo-Boer War

8 years ago in

(Author: Richard Mendelsohn, Vol 74, #2, Rosh Hashanah, 2019) 2019 marks the 120th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). While it was by no means a ‘Jewish War’, despite the accusations of some hostile English commentators like JAHobson, there was nevertheless

“More than a shop”: Fanny Klenerman and the Vanguard Bookshop in Johannesburg

9 years ago in

(AUTHOR: Veronica Belling, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2017) A lifelong rebel, a trade unionist and a Trotskyite, Fanny Klenerman’s name is chiefly associated with the Vanguard Bookshop, iconic of leftist circles in Johannesburg during the period 1931-1974. Although her shop is often cited,

Jews with Van Riebeeck

16 years ago in

(Author: Janus J Gluck, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) How do we know? How can we know? History has preserved few name-lists on crew level or of the enlisted men beyond what they called themselves. Typically Jewish names are hardly met with in

A bright star in a chamber of darkness: Helen Suzman and her legacy

17 years ago in

(Author: Rhoda Kadalie, Vol. 64, No. 1, Chanukah 2009) I wish to thank the SA Jewish Board of Deputies for asking me to speak at this memorial service in honor of the great Helen Suzman. It is indeed a privilege because Helen and I

Unlikely Vigilantes – Extra-judicial responses to Nazi movements in South Africa

Helen Suzman Blue Plaque unveiling

Jews and the formation of the South African newspaper industry

Butch Ben Yok

Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2014-2017

Olga Kirsch’s Jewish Poetry

Uprooted and uncompensated: the mistreatment of ‘Russian’ Jews by Perfidious Albion during and after the Anglo-Boer War

“More than a shop”: Fanny Klenerman and the Vanguard Bookshop in Johannesburg

Jews with Van Riebeeck

A bright star in a chamber of darkness: Helen Suzman and her legacy

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