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home kaplan centre skip to main content university of cape town home about us study at uct campus life research innovation internationalisation vision 2030 news media contacts maps donate to uct faculty of humanities home about us apply current students departments research alumni news events contact shackville home about us our mission our team jean s kitchen dafkadotcom research resources archival research inquiries bibliography of south african jewry south african jewish museum archive sa jewish rootsbank poor jews temporary shelter database district six kaplan centre jewish related archival collections oral history collections research funding yiddish dictionary guide to sajbod archives in johannesburg memoir by first herzlia principal south african jewry 1929 and 1967 1968 scholarship survey reports and data publications conferences programmes galleries exhibitions news latest news news archive web exhibitions ethnic radicals life and art of herman wald to wash one s enemy s wounds mavericks inside the tent the letters of tuvye kretzmar the green and sea point hebrew congregation from its origins to 2010 summary early days 20th century eastern european jews arrive jews in sea point 1875 1920 south african war refugees arrival first sea point service 1920s a congregation is established 1930s part 1 1930s part 2 the war years talmud torah troubles news of nazi atrocities emerge the choir can women sing the synagogue secedes from the jewish board of deputies ladies guild founded palestine becomes israel national party takes control the synagogue expands suez crisis the congo crisis sephardi congregation finds a home synagogue enlarged fire the shul and its rabbis during apartheid suez crisis six day war and the yom kippur war rabbi newman and christian national education dress protocols challenged two rabbis and 2 800 worshippers soweto instability fear compulsory military conscription congregation outgrows the shul but not on tuesdays mayoral sunday rabbis speak out religious tolerance challenged states of emergency and security drills golden anniversary visit by state president 1993 a year of anniversaries the year the world changed 1989 first free elections synagogue becomes polling booth the trc and the new south africa living in an ethnic enclave caution averts calamity administration those were the days modern orthodoxy microphones religious practices become more rigid religious freedom under attack battle for the soul of the shul rolls royce vs a mini minor battle continues this time over conversion moving on for the good of the community something fishy has there been a difference acknowledgements partners in primary care jewish doctors and pharmacists in the northern suburbs of cape town 1930 1980 overview partners in primary care partners in primary care comments alma joyce freedberg nee green 1917 1976 solly freedberg 1915 2012 leonard mendelsohn 1918 2002 enid daitsh 1921 2009 married name mendelsohn myer hoffman 1902 1959 jack karpas 1908 1991 harry anziska 1917 1987 maurice reznek 1911 1989 bernie wortreich 1918 1995 donny loon 1924 2011 emanuel mendel sacks 1915 1999 reuben berry berelowitz 1925 1981 hymie hyman cotton 1924 2012 nathan tollie lewis 1919 1997 leslie levy 1922 1990 issy anstey 1921 2012 solly smiedt 1918 2010 reminiscences of hymie ehrlich isaac angel mallach 1918 2020 ralph webner 1901 1977 gerald jeremia budow nathan mallach aubrey barron 1916 1988 charles charlie jacobs hyman harry berkman hymie 1919 1999 israel issy julius kadish reminiscences of arnold bloch the south african jewish cookbook project contact the jews of parow the jews of parow the history of a south african community oral history collection in the 1980s the kaplan centre for jewish studies undertook a large oral history project designed to record the memories of jews of lithuanian origin who settled in south africa before and after the first world war find out more report the kaplan centre working with kas media africa and the johannesburg holocaust and genocide centre have published a report on racism xenophobia and antisemitism on social media in south africa read the report here discover our web exhibitions the kaplan centre presents several online exhibitions read more explore new scholarship the kaplan centre produces much new work that focuses on the past and present of jews in south africa explore our latest attitudinal and demographic studies or delve into the past read more category any south african jewry 1929 and 1967 1968 read more the jews of parow the jews of parow the history of a south african community read more community history online join an online conference preserving the footprint of the sa jewish comminity online read more jews in south africa new directions in research ucl institute of jewish studies in partnership with the kaplan centre for jewish studies university of cape town presents jews in south africa new directions in research read more contact us rachel bloch house uct upper campus rondebosch 7701 receptionist greg ramsay 27 0 21 650 3062 copyright 2026 university of cape town all rights reserved popia paia