(Author: Harriet Feinberg, Vol. 72, No. 1, Pesach 2017) Feature image: Sonja Schlesin with M K Gandhi and Herman Kallenbach (centre) and another, photographed shortly after Gandhi's release from prison in 2013     Here's a question you’ve probably never contemplated: What did Gandhi think about

(Author: Paul Trewhela, Vol. 74, No. 1, Pesach 2019)  Morris Isaacson, c. 1879-1954 Morris Isaac Isaacson, the founder of Soweto’s Morris Isaacson High School, was born in or near Kovno (now Kaunas) in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, in about 1879.1 The village

(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

(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,

(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