Jewish Affairs, Volume 66 Number 2, Rosh Hashana 5772/2011

Now in its 70th year of publication, Jewish Affairs is South African Jewry’s premier forum for historical research, debate and cultural expression, in which both local and international Jewish writers participate.

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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Kind regards & G’mar Chatima Tova

David Saks

Associate Director & Editor Jewish Affairs

david@beyachad.co.za