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    • Ethnic Radicals
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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
    • The South African Jewish Cookbook Project
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