(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 79, #1, 2024) South African Jews have a long and honorable record of combining support for Israel and commitment to South Africa, the country which gave them shelter – often grudgingly – from the antisemitic plague that bedeviled Europe
(Author: Peter Arnold, Volume 79, #1, Winter 2024) “Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. Jews in England and South Africa and Australia. Where do we belong…truly belong?” While I was preparing for this talk, I was reading James Shapiro’s book, Shakespeare
(Author: Alon Shapira, Vol. 79 * No. 1 * Winter 2024) ‘What on earth is there to talk about? There were dozens of chaps that did far more than I could ever have done – they should get the publicity, not
(Author: Karen Milner, Vol 78, #3, Spring-Summer 2023) National Chairperson’s Report – SAJBD National Conference, 3 December 2023 We are not living in normal times so this is not going to be a normal Chairperson’s speech. Instead, this is a speech from
(Author: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 78, #3, Spring-Summer 2023) This is the second part of a story chronicling the experiences and events during World War II (1939-1945) in which three uncles of the sisters Arlene Rubin (nee Egnal) and Denise Buxbaum
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 78, #3, Spring-Summer 2023) The wandering Jews have always been on the move, usually fleeing persecution, prejudice and poverty, searching for security and a better economic future. They first moved into the Democratic Republic of the Congo in
(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 78, #3, Spring-Summer 2023) The year is 1948. In our small town of Roodepoort a powerful weather event is about to be unleashed. My mother, elder brother and I see ominous signs in the sky one November
(Author: Shirley Zar, Vol. 78, #2, Winter 2023) Recently, I read the book Kabbalah in Art and Architecture by Alexander Gorlin, which opened my eyes to my understanding of a building with which I as an architect am familiar, but which remains an
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol 78, #2, Winter 2023) When Milton Shain’s book The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa appeared in 1994, it was hailed as the first scholarly examination of the origins, nature and reasons for anti-Jewish prejudice in South Africa from
(Author: Steven Katzew, Vol. 78, #2, Winter 2023) From time-to-time fingers are pointed at the South African Jewish community generally, and in particular its institutions and leadership under various guises, for lack of sufficient resistance to the policy of systematic racial discrimination