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The Pesach 2012 issue includes a special focus on South African Jewish artists. Two articles, by Ute Ben Yosef and Natalie Knight, discuss the life and work of Herman Wald, a post-war sculptor perhaps best known for his design of the Martyr’s Monument in Johannesburg’s West Park Jewish Cemetery. Gwynne Schrire provides an insightful essay on how local Jewish artists have inverted the Crucifixion motif as an instrument of political and/or social protest while Frank Startz has contributed a profile on his late teacher and friend Sidney Goldblatt. Dan Brotman reflects on Jewish Cape Town.
This edition remembers two stalwarts of the journal who have recently passed away, Harold Rudolph and Annette Dubowsky. Book reviews discuss recent works on the Ochberg Orphans, the memoir of Jewish Anti-apartheid veteran Norman Levy and a general analysis of post-apartheid South Africa in the new century by R W Johnson.
Jewish Affairs, South Africa's leading Jewish intellectual journal, features a wide variety of articles on Jewish religion, history and culture. It has been published under the auspices of the Board since 1941. To subscribe or take out a gift subscription, please contact Goldie Goldsmith goldie@beyachad.co.za or david@beyachad.co.za
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Jewish Affairs, South Africa's leading Jewish intellectual journal, features a wide variety of articles on Jewish religion, history and culture. It has been published under the auspices of the Board since 1941. To subscribe or take out a gift subscription, please contact Goldie Goldsmith +27116452523 goldie@beyachad.co.za or david@beyachad.co.za
Jewish Affairs, Volume 66, Number 3, Channukah 5772/2011 Download here
This issue delves into the political-ideological war being waged on multiple fronts against the State of Israel and how this affects Diaspora Jewry, including in Venezuela. Chuck Volpe writes insightfully on the liberal-left and extremist agendas of Islamist radicals and David Benatar conceptually reframes the Israel-Palestine question. “South African Jewish Notables” like anti-apartheid Arthur Goldreich and local Jewish artist Moses Kottler are discussed. Johannesburg attorney Norman Sher reminisces about being a public prosecutor in the early 1960s. The JNF’s Benji Shulman looks at the environment from a traditional Jewish angle and Israel Abramowitz provides an overview of Perth Jewry, with its strong SA roots. Prof Reuben Musiker reviews Jewish Memories of Mandela. Roy Robin provides an authoritative overview of a recent landmark publication on Jewish writers in the 20th Century. Read more and download here
Jewish Affairs, Volume 66 Number 2, Rosh Hashana 5772/2011
Highlights include:
A focus on Judaism in South Africa, with articles examining the influence of the UK Chief Rabbinate, the role of B’nei Akiva and Yeshiva College in pioneering religious Jewish day school education and the importance that Kol Nidre night has traditionally assumed for South African Jewry right across the spectrum of religious observance.
In a rare interview Michael Schneider, one of the most illustrious products of SA Jewry who went on to hold several of the most senior positions in Jewish communal service, recounts his dramatic early days as an activist in the anti-apartheid African Resistance Movement in Cape Town and his subsequent escape into exile after the movement was infiltrated by the security establishment.
In the wake of this year’s latest ‘Royal Wedding’, many will no doubt enjoy the account we publish of the 1946 Royal Visit to South Africa as experienced by Jewish residents of the little Free State town of Clocolan.
Jewish themes in the novels of James A. Michener, the Eichmann Trial as seen by one of today’s preeminent Holocaust historians and Howard Jacobson’s acclaimed Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Finkler Question.
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