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    • 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)
      • 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
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Library

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.
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The Dynamics of Racism, Antisemitism and Xenophobia on Social Media in South Africa

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.
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Web exhibitions

Discover our web exhibitions

The Kaplan Centre presents several online exhibitions.
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A study of attitudes

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.
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Jews of Parow Book

The Jews of Parow

The Jews of Parow - The History of a South African Community
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Community History Online

Join an online conference: preserving the footprint of the SA Jewish comminity online.
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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.
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Great Synagogue 1966

A Demographic Snapshot of the Cape Town Jewish Community

In 2017, the Kaplan Centre initiated a comprehensive study of the Cape Town community. This report outlines some of the demographic information collected during the course of that project.
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