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Bp21168-Jewish Affairs Cover J EEWISHW I S H A FFFAIRSFA I R S PPesachesach 22012012 Price R50,00 incl. VAT Registered at the GPO as a Newspaper ISSN 0021 • 6313 IRELAND/DAVENPORT 69445 IRELAND/DAVENPORT Rejoice in freedom Chag sameach Specialist Banking Asset Management Wealth & Investment Australia Botswana Canada Hong Kong India Ireland Mauritius Namibia South Africa Switzerland Taiwan United Kingdom & Channel Islands United States Investec Limited and its subsidiaries, including Investec Bank Limited - 1969/004763/06, registered credit providers and authorised financial service providers. Cape Town 021 416 1000 Durban 031 575 4000 Johannesburg 011 286 7000 Pretoria 012 427 8300 J EWISH A FFAIRS MISSION EDITORIAL BOARD In publishing JEWISH AFFAIRS, the SA EXECUTIVE EDITOR Jewish Board of Deputies aims to produce a cultural forum which caters for a wide variety David Saks SA Jewish Board of Deputies of interests in the community. The journal will be a vehicle for the publication of articles of significant thought and opinion on contemporary Jewish issues, and will aim to ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD encourage constructive debate, in the form of Professor Marcus Arkin South African Zionist Federation reasoned and researched essays, on all matters Suzanne Belling Journalist and editor of Jewish and general interest. Dr Louise Bethlehem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Marlene Bethlehem SA Jewish Board of Deputies JEWISH AFFAIRS aims also to publish essays Cedric Ginsberg University of South Africa of scholarly research on all subjects of Jewish interest, with special emphasis on aspects of Dr Elaine Katz University of the Witwatersrand South African Jewish life and thought. Professor Marcia Leveson University of the Witwatersrand Scholarly research papers that make an original Naomi Musiker Archivist and Bibliographer contribution to their chosen field of enquiry Professor Reuben Musiker University of the Witwatersrand will be submitted to the normal processes of Gwynne Schrire SA Jewish Board of Deputies academic refereeing before being accepted for Dr Gabriel A Sivan World Jewish Bible Centre publication. Professor Gideon Shimoni Hebrew University of Jerusalem JEWISH AFFAIRS will promote Jewish Professor Milton Shain University of Cape Town cultural and creative achievement in South John Simon University of Cape Town Africa, and consider Jewish traditions and The Hon. Mr Justice Ralph Zulman Appeal Court of South Africa heritage within the modern context. It aims to provide future researchers with a window on the community’s reaction to societal challenges. In this way the journal hopes SECRETARY – Golde Goldsmith critically to explore, and honestly to confront, TYPESETTING/PRINTING – Bookpress, Johannesburg problems facing the Jewish community both in South Africa and abroad, by examining national and international affairs and their impact on South Africa. The SA Jewish Board of Deputies is committed © South African Jewish Board of Deputies 2011 to dialogue and free enquiry. It aims to protect Permission to reprint material from JEWISH AFFAIRS should be human rights and to strive for better relations applied for from among peoples of diverse cultural backgrounds The South African Jewish Board of Deputies in South Africa. JEWISH AFFAIRS is published 3 times annually Annual subscription R180 including VAT and postage The columns of JEWISH AFFAIRS will Overseas: Surface Mail US$30 or BPS25 therefore be open to all shades of opinion. The Air Mail US$70 or BPS50 views expressed by the contributors will be Postal Address: PO Box 87557, Houghton 2041 their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor, the Editorial Board or the Publishers. Original, unpublished essays of between 1 000 and 6 000 words on However, in keeping with the provisions of all subjects are invited, and should be sent to: the National Constitution, the freedom of speech exercised in this journal will exclude The Editor, JEWISH AFFAIRS, PO Box 87557, Houghton 2041, the dissemination of hate propaganda, personal [email protected] attacks or invective, or any material which may be regarded as defamatory or malicious. The Editorial Board reserves the right to cut the length of articles In all such matters, the Editor’s decision is accepted for publication, and to make any stylistic changes which it final. may deem necessary. J EWISH A FFAIRS VOL. 67 b NO. 1 b PESACH 2012 Editor: David Saks SOUTH AFRICAN JEWRY IN POST-APARTHEID SOCIETY One Foot Out: Young Capetonian Jews in Post-World Cup South Africa Dan Brotman .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Jewish Contributions to Johannesburg Inner City Development Naomi Musiker ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH ARTISTS Art as Protest: Jewish Inversions of the Crucifixion Motif Gwynne Schrire .................................................................................................................................................... 17 Herman Wald – His Life and Work Ute Ben Yosef ....................................................................................................................................................... 24 Jewish law and aspects of the work of Herman Wald Natalie Knight ...................................................................................................................................................... 28 Sidney Goldblatt: the Artist and the Man Frank Startz .......................................................................................................................................................... 32 MEMOIRS Grandma’s Fur Coat Annette Dubovsky ................................................................................................................................................. 36 Rhodesian Memories of a Jewish Prosecutor Norman Sher ......................................................................................................................................................... 37 BOOK REVIEWS The Final Prize: My Life in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle David Saks ............................................................................................................................................................ 40 South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid Ralph Zulman ....................................................................................................................................................... 42 The Ochberg Orphans and the horrors from whence they came Lionel Slier ........................................................................................................................................................... 43 READER’S LETTER Mendel Katz .......................................................................................................................................................... 47 FRONT COVER IMAGE: The Aron Kodesh of the old Berea Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg, designed by Herman Wald (see inside). Photo by Jac de Villiers JEWISH AFFAIRS N PESACH 2012 ONE FOOT OUT: YOUNG JEWISH CAPETONIANS FACE A POST-WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA * Dan Brotman The South African Jewish community is deteriorate quickly, and thus one must always currently experiencing attrition through have an escape plan for the future. emigration, which has diminished the number of Tatz defines an aggregate of events as residents by close to 50% since the end of “political, economic, social and psychological apartheid in 1994. The Cape Town Jewish forces which accumulate and help build up a community in particular has a distinct character, perception, or recognition, that it is time to think and thus a different outlook and relationship with of moving, and then to act on them.”3 Unlike the country. This paper explores the narrative of previous 20th Century Jewish migrations, there that community through historical experience, was no single event that spurred South African analysis of the available statistics, and qualitative Jews to emigrate en masse. Although the interviews, in order to evaluate the outlook of community reached its peak in the early 1970s young Capetonian Jews (especially regarding (comprising 118 200 members)4, there are today emigration) following the successful 2010 FIFA an estimated 72 000-85 000 Jews remaining in the World Cup. This research further focuses on those country5, with 15 500 in Cape Town.6 Between between the ages of 18 and 34, whose decision to 1981 and 2005, 40% of the community (47 000 stay or leave Cape Town will most drastically people) left South Africa, with 38 000 departing impact the community’s viability. between 1970 and 19907. The emigration of Beginning with the destruction of the First younger community members during this period Temple in 586 BCE, Jews have historically resulted in the median age rising from 31.9 in emigrated en masse in relatively short periods of 1970 to 38.9 in 1991.8 time following an existential threat.1 Jews in While 800,000 to 1 million whites left the South Africa have not emigrated due to one country from 1996 to 2006, a whopping 40% of particular event or even circumstances targeting Jews did so during a similar period9. After having specifically Jews, but rather in response to a reviewed the latest communal survey and multitude of political, social, and economic interviewed
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