(Author: Gloria Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) This is the fourth and final part of a four-part essay on Isaac Bashevis Singer, the first three having since appeared in Jewish Affairs. Before analysing the several plots and stylistic features of the novel,
(Author Anny Wynchank, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013) The Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU)1 is a Paris-based international Jewish organization. Over 150 years old, it was founded in Paris in 1860 by Adolphe Crémieux and six other prominent French Jews. It is probably the
(Author: Ute Ben Yosef, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) In November this year, South Africa’s Mother City will have the privilege of hosting an exhibition of paintings by the eminent artist Samuel Bak. It is being brought to these shores by the Pucker
(Author: Janus J Gluck, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) A short while before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, another historic find was unearthed in 1945 near the village of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt: a batch of 12 codices containing 53
(Author: Veronica Belling, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) A cookbook bearing the most unusual name of Bread and peacocks: a Cookery Book: Exotic Recipes, by Sarah Shaban, described as “a prominent hostess in South Africa”, was published in London by Grosvenor Publishing Co.
(Author: Gloria Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Feature image – taken from the cover of the Penguin edition of The Family Moskat, 1981 This is the first of a four-part essay on I.B. Singer’s great epic work, The Manor (1967), its sequel,
(Author: Allen Jacobs, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) During World War I, Lithuanians voted Vilna as the capital of their newly liberated country. There were about 65 000 Jews in Vilna at the time. The vibrant Jewish life there gave birth to numerous publications
(Author: Naomi Jacobson, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) My grandfather was the famed Yiddish writer and scholar David Goldblatt, who is best remembered today for his two-volume Yiddish Encyclopaedia, written (amongst other publications) after his relocation to New York in 1915. He
(Author: Frank Startz, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) David Goldblatt has spent much of his life as a photographer recording and chronicling many aspects of South African history as it unfolded, especially but not exclusively during the apartheid years. His objectivity, honesty
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