The Jews in South Africa

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Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jews in South Africa by : Richard Mendelsohn

Download or read book The Jews in South Africa written by Richard Mendelsohn and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the past two centuries, this book explores the fascinating role played by this small but highly significant community in the economic. political, social and cultural life of this country. This richly illustrated story -- the first comprehensive history to appear in over 50 years -- includes a wide range of historically important photographs, many long unseen, and encompasses a broad swathe of Jewish life, from the bimoh and the boardroom to the bowling green. Beginning with the first Jewish immigrants to South Africa, and depicting the fragility of the early foundations and the shifting fortunes of this infant community, the book traces its development to robust maturity amidst turbulent social and political currents. These include the strident anti-semitism of the 1930s, the moral dilemmas of the apartheid era, the subsequent turbulent transition towards a non--racial democracy, the birth of the New South Africa and the fresh challenges and promise that have followed in its wake up to the present day. Included are such personalities as Barney Barnato, Helen Suzman, Joe Slovo, Sol Kerzner and Rabbi Cyril Harris, as well as many others who have made an important mark in their fields. This book will be of great interest to every member of the Jewish community living both in South Africa and in their adoptive countries, as well as to all wishing to learn more about this highly energetic and innovative community whose contribution in many spheres of life has so greatly influenced and enriched the history of South Africa.

Community and Conscience

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653295
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Book Synopsis Community and Conscience by : Gideon Shimoni

Download or read book Community and Conscience written by Gideon Shimoni and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough account of South African Jewish religious, political, and educational institutions in relation to the apartheid regime.

Genetic Afterlives

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012307
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Book Synopsis Genetic Afterlives by : Noah Tamarkin

Download or read book Genetic Afterlives written by Noah Tamarkin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black Jewish Lemba people of South Africa, announced to the Lemba Cultural Association that a recent DNA study substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews. Lemba people subsequently leveraged their genetic test results to seek recognition from the post-apartheid government as indigenous Africans with rights to traditional leadership and land, retheorizing genetic ancestry in the process. In Genetic Afterlives, Noah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship. Tamarkin turns away from genetics researchers' results that defined a single story of Lemba peoples' “true” origins and toward Lemba understandings of their own genealogy as multivalent. Guided by Lemba people’s negotiations of their belonging as diasporic Jews, South African citizens, and indigenous Africans, Tamarkin considers new ways to think about belonging that can acknowledge the importance of historical and sacred ties to land without valorizing autochthony, borders, or other technologies of exclusion.

A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today

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Publisher : Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town
ISBN 13 : 0799224685
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Book Synopsis A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today by : Boris Gorelik

Download or read book A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today written by Boris Gorelik and published by Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a group of Jews in South Africa that has been almost overlooked by local Jewish organisations. In fact they are not even viewed as an entity, but rather as an aggregate of individuals whose number is unknown. These are the Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union- South African Jewry's 'lost tribe'. Unlike Israel, Germany or the United States, South Africa did not experience the influx of hundreds of thousands of Soviet and post-Soviet Jews in the 1970s to 1990s. That is probably a reason why neither researchers nor journalists has ever considered them as a South African phenomenon. In addition, unlike those Jews from the ex-USSR in Israel, Germany or the United States, in South Africa they have not formed their own communities and do not play a prominent part in the existing ones. In fact, they usually appear to be unwilling to involve themselves with South African Jewish organisations. They keep their distance and are not as religious or Zionist as their locally-born counterparts and are generally not community oriented. To some observers they may even appear to be more Russian than Jewish. Generally speaking, ex-USSR emigres are not clearly bound to their Jewish identity. They might be Jews but do they manifest any 'Jewishness'?

The Jews in South Africa

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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jews in South Africa by : Gustav Saron

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The Jew in South Africa

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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jew in South Africa by : Joseph Herman Hertz

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A History of the Jews in South Africa, from the Earliest Times to 1895

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Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of the Jews in South Africa, from the Earliest Times to 1895 by : Louis Herrman

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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071506
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis Black Jews in Africa and the Americas by : Tudor Parfitt

Download or read book Black Jews in Africa and the Americas written by Tudor Parfitt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.

The Jews of South Africa

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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jews of South Africa by : Tzippi Hoffman

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Jews and Zionism

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Publisher : Cape Town : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
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Book Synopsis Jews and Zionism by : Gideon Shimoni

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The Lion Seeker

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Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307362159
Total Pages : 538 pages
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Book Synopsis The Lion Seeker by : Kenneth Bonert

Download or read book The Lion Seeker written by Kenneth Bonert and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brawny, brilliant debut novel about the epic struggles of an immigrant son in a darkening world. Johannesburg, South Africa. The Great Depression. In this harsh new country, young Isaac Helger burns with fiery determination— to break out of the inner city, to buy his scarred mother the home she longs for, to find a way to realize her dream of reuniting a family torn apart. But there are terrible, unspoken secrets of the past that will haunt him as he makes his way through a society brutalized by racism, as he loses his heart to an unattainable girl from the city’s wealthiest heights and his every exit route from poverty dead-ends. When the threat of the Second World War insinuates itself with brutal force into Isaac’s reality, he will face the most important choice of his life . . . and will have to learn to live with the consequences. In this extraordinarily powerful novel, Kenneth Bonert brings alive the world of South African Jewry in all its raw energy and ribald vernacular. Comedic, searing, lyrical and with a snap-perfect ear for dialogue, The Lion Seeker is a profoundly moral exploration of how wider social forces shape us and shatter us, echoing through history with lessons that are no less relevant today than in the crucible of its time.

Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities: Boland. Bushmanland. Central Karoo. Fairest Cape. Griqualand West. Kalahari Koup. Namaqualand. Swartland. West Coast

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Total Pages : 540 pages
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Download or read book Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities: Boland. Bushmanland. Central Karoo. Fairest Cape. Griqualand West. Kalahari Koup. Namaqualand. Swartland. West Coast written by Adrienne Kollenberg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large format, six-volume set "Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities" is a multi-year project, researched by the South African Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth. Concisely written by a team of researchers with another team collecting photographs, each of the volumes in this projected series of six books focuses on specific regions and the Jewish communities therein. The researchers visited major libraries and archives, as well as smaller research facilities, all over South Africa. They conducted oral interviews with many present and past residents and used the proverbial fine-toothed comb to search the back issues of the London Jewish Chronicle and other historical papers for relevant items. The aim of this research is to have a permanent record of the Jewish communities in the dorps (country towns) of South Africa.

Jewish Roots in the South African Economy

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Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis Jewish Roots in the South African Economy by : Mendel Kaplan

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My Race

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Publisher : Dbm Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780981610238
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis My Race by : Lorraine Lotzof Abramson

Download or read book My Race written by Lorraine Lotzof Abramson and published by Dbm Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Race is the memoir of a gifted Jewish athlete growing up under the apartheid system of South Africa. As both an outsider excluded from the conservative Christian mainstream and an insider who reaped many of the benefits of a society founded on white supremacy, South African track star Lorraine Lotzof Abramson had a unique vantage point on the apartheid experience. Her grandparents left Eastern Europe to escape oppression, only to find themselves in another oppressive society. This time, by virtue of their white skin, they were on the same side of the fence as the oppressors. Lorraine's first-hand account shares her ambitions, her achievements, her losses, her family ties and her growing unease with the system of social inequality that simultaneously excluded her and celebrated her. Along the way, Lorraine learns that the real race the marathon that is a long and eventful human life is a journey towards compassion.

South African Jews in World War II.

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Total Pages : 240 pages
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Book Synopsis South African Jews in World War II. by : South African Jewish Board of Deputies

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Early Experiences of a First Generation Jewish South African

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483479250
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Book Synopsis Early Experiences of a First Generation Jewish South African by : Max Israel Shaff

Download or read book Early Experiences of a First Generation Jewish South African written by Max Israel Shaff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of growing up in South Africa during and following the second world war, with the election of a nationalist postwar government, responsible for the passage of Apartheid into the law of the land. The son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Formative years spent in a divided country separated by race, religion, language and ethnicity still bearing residual scars of both the Xhosa and Boer wars. It is however first and foremost a family saga.

Cutting Through the Mountain

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Publisher : Viking Adult
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Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book Cutting Through the Mountain written by Immanuel Suttner and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: