(Vol. 77, #2, Autumn-Winter 2022) A Liliesleaf Boyhood Editor’s Note: From December 1961 until July 1963, Paul and Nicholas Goldreich lived with their parents Arthur and Hazel Goldreich on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, then a largely rural suburb 20km north of Johannesburg. During
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 77, # 1, Summer 2022) The period of Jeremiah is characterised by Babylonia supplanting Assyria as the world superpower. This transformation to a new world order presented major challenges for the nations of the region, including Judah, and these were
(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
(Author: Cecil Bloom, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) “My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to say, before I say another word, that the reason I am interested in this movement is that I met one some two years ago who
(Author: John Simon, Vol. 64, #3, Chanukah 2009) After the Biblical hero Samson had been defeated and blinded by the Philistines, he lived in captivity in the humblest quarter of Gaza, and despite repeated requests by his comrades from Judaea, he constantly refused to
(Author: Mona Berman, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) On 26-8 October 2008, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University hosted an international conference to celebrate Elie Wiesel’s 80th birthday. Over three days the participants reviewed all the major areas of Wiesel’s life
(Author: Colin Eglin, Vol 64, #3, Chanukah 2009) Helen and I first met in June 1954, over lunch in the Oak Room of the Manchester Hotel that once stood at the corner of Strand and Burg Streets, Cape Town. I was about to become
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) A tragic by-product of the Civil War that broke out in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 were the numerous pogroms that occurred. It has been estimated that as many as 160 000 Jews died
(Author: Isaac Reznik, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009) “Growing up in a small Jewish country community on the Highveld of the then Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga, Johannesburg in the minds of both adults and children – had the image of the quintessential big city,
(Author: Hazel Dakers, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010) Feature image: Unmarked probable graves of Benjamin and Abigail Norden, Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery (author’s photo) Some years after the death of my South African grandfather, my aunts and my mother agreed to pass on to