Volume 68, Number 1, Pesach 2013
Highlights of this issue include a focus on the artist Samuel Bak by Ute Ben Yosef, including numerous examples of his internationally acclaimed work. In the field of South African Yiddish literature, Hazel Frankel and Cedric Ginsberg respectively write on the renowned poet David Fram and the short story writer Nehemiah Levinsky. Ginsberg’s translation of Levinsky’s ‘Children’ rescues from obscurity a powerful, haunting story of South African racism and its impact on the friendship of a black and a white boy in the rural districts. Gloria Sandak-Lewin provides the next instalment in her comprehensive analysis of I B Singer’s ‘The Family Chronicles’. [read more]
Volume 67, Number 3, Chanukah 2012
Jewish Affairs in large part serves to showcase the achievements of members of our South African Jewish community. We have seen of late a strong focus on South African Jewish artists, including Sidney Goldblatt, Herman Wald, Naomi Jacobson, David Goldblatt and Moses Kottler. In this issue, we feature the work of Madelaine Georgette, which is very much bound up with depicting and recording the legacy of racism, oppression, democratic transformation and reconciliation. [read more]
Volume 67, No. 2. Rosh Hashana [.PDF]
This year is the 71st year of publication for our prestigious journal, today South African Jewry’s premier forum for historical research, debate and cultural expression. [read more]
Volume 67, No 1 Pesach 2012
SOUTH AFRICAN JEWRY IN POST-APARTHEID SOCIETY
- One Foot Out: Young Capetonian Jews in Post-World Cup South Africa by Dan Brotman
- Jewish Contributions to Johannesburg Inner City Development by Naomi Musiker [read more]
Communal Diary
Candle Lighting Times