Memories of the 6 day war in Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem
by Miriam (Mickey) Blumberg, Ahuzat Beit Hakerem,Jerusalem. We came on Aliyah from South Africa in July, 1961, and in the summer of 1962, we came as new immigrants to the lovely suburb of Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, after 8 months in an absorption center called Ben Yehuda, close to a “maberah” called Shikun Dora. The nearest city […]
The Jewish Country Communities of Limpopo/Northern Transvaal by Charlotte Wiener
The book ‘The Jewish Country Communities of Limpopo/ Northern Transvaal’ recalls the history of the Jewish country communities in the northern part of South Africa from the first pioneers, who came from England and Germany, then from Lithuania and Latvia, at the end of the 18th Century until their demise at the end of the 20th Century. […]
Jan Christian Smuts and the Jews
By Alex Rose “The logjam was opportunately broken when Jan Smuts, a lean and leathern South African statesman [and the inventor of the words ‘holistic’ and ‘apartheid’] devised the concept of ‘mandates. According to this, the League of Nations would bestow control over former enemy territories to various powers, which would prepare their populations for […]