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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
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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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