Jewish History – South Africa – Page 5

Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to South African Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2020/2021 & Additions for 2014-2019

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Juan-Paul Burke This is a follow on from the bibliography presented in JA Spring 2020 Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to SA Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2019 & additions for 2014-2018. As the title suggests, you can expect to find the years

Tweaking Apartheid’s Tail

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(Author Douglas Davis, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) About a month after being thrown out of Rhodes University in the Sixties, I joined the reporting staff of the Pretoria News. Not because I had ink coursing through my veins but because I

A Jewish childhood in Apartheid South Africa

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(Author: Harold Behr, Vol. 77, #2, Autumn 2022) To have lived as a white person in South Africa during the apartheid years was to have lived with a poisoned gift. Having been born into a Jewish family who had made their home there,

Simple Beginnings

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(Author: Zita Nurok, Vol. 77 2, Autumn 2022) At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, four brothers and a sister emigrated from Kurshan, Lithuania, to South Africa. Many are the reasons why people leave the country of their birth. Those four brothers and

Mensches in the Trenches – New perspectives on Jewish anti-Apartheid Activists

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Editor’s note: Books by and about Jewish participants in the anti-apartheid movement began rolling off the presses even before the final demise of white minority rule in April 1994 and continue to do so even today. In 2011, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies

Traditional Judaism’s Remarkable Survival

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(Author: Martin Zagnoev, Vol. 77 * No. 1 * Summer 2022) Judaism is arguably the oldest surviving religion, going back some four thousand years. During this long period there have been surprisingly few challenges to the mainstream orthodoxy, even though there were numerous

Russian official responses to the Jewish immigration to South Africa, 1890s–1900s

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(Author: Boris Gorelik, Vol. 77 * No. 1 * Summer 2022) Reading on the immigration of Russian Jews to South Africa, you may come across such statements as: ‘The Tsarist government refused to protect their Jewish nationals’.[1] Other authors go further, declaring that

‘A Boerejood on Steroids’ – Dominique Malherbe’s Searching for Sarah: A Review essay

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(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 76 * No. 2 * Autumn-Winter 2021) As literary executrix to the ‘father of Afrikaans literature’ and Senator in the Union Parliament, Cornelis Jakobus Langenhoven (1873-1932), the name of Sarah Goldblatt (1889-1975) has become synonymous with the fight for

Memories of Operation Savannah, Angola 1975–6

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(Author: Gary Nowosenetz, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) The 1 Medium Battery 4th Field Regiment We did Basics in Potchefstroom in 1975. Afterwards, we were divided up into three groups and trained in how to operate and deploy the 5.5 (140-mm guns. The first

How true a reflection of the Afrikaner-Jewish relationship was the pre-1948 antisemitism of the Afrikaner Press and Politicians? (Part 2)

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(Author: Ivan Kapelus, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) Feature image: Afrikaans, English and Jewish members of the Pietersburg Ambulance Fund Committee, 1929-1930 The 1930 Quota Act was aimed at severely curtailing Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, primarily from Lithuania. This Minister of Interior

Articles, Theses & Books pertaining to South African Jewry and Jewish Studies, 2020/2021 & Additions for 2014-2019

Tweaking Apartheid’s Tail

A Jewish childhood in Apartheid South Africa

Simple Beginnings

Mensches in the Trenches – New perspectives on Jewish anti-Apartheid Activists

Traditional Judaism’s Remarkable Survival

Russian official responses to the Jewish immigration to South Africa, 1890s–1900s

‘A Boerejood on Steroids’ – Dominique Malherbe’s Searching for Sarah: A Review essay

Memories of Operation Savannah, Angola 1975–6

How true a reflection of the Afrikaner-Jewish relationship was the pre-1948 antisemitism of the Afrikaner Press and Politicians? (Part 2)

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