By Gwynne Robins It is 19 August 1901 and Moses Zuckerman has called a general meeting for Jewish women in the Masonic Hall. "By 1901," writes Marcia Gitlin, "Zionism…
By Gwynne Robins The first Zionist society in Cape Town was the short-lived Bnei Zion Society which had been established on 27 November 1897 by Reb Yehuda Leib Schrire, the…
Prof Howard Phillips' Interview with Jenny Stern (14.11.1978) - born 1903 Abbreviated from the interview in In a Time of Plague: Memories of the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 in…
By Gwynne Robins Global education network ORT, which started in St Petersburg, Russia in 1880 to teach Jews employable skills, came to South Africa in 1936 when its chairman, Dr…
By Gwynne Robins The hazards of the sea were directly responsible for the establishment of the first Jewish organisation in the Cape, the Jewish Philanthropic Society of the Jewish Community…
By Gwynne Robins Since the fourth century BCE, the Jews in the Diaspora have found it necessary to have a kehillah, a semi-autonomous organised Jewish community structure, that could intercede…
By Clive Dallas Ingredients • 8 spoons Matzah meal • 3-4 Eggs • 2 tbsp Schmaltz • 1 large onion • 2 carrots • 1 stick of celery • 4…
By Gwynne Robins In 1901 the Bubonic plague reached Cape Town. The South African War was at its height and the British had imported horses for its troops and fodder…
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