Is9n a J O U R N a L F O R O L I M F R O M SOUTHERN TELFED AFRICA Vol

"is9n A J O U R N A L F O R O L I M F R O M SOUTHERN TELFED AFRICA Vol. VI. No. 3 — May/June. 1980 TOO MANY IMMIGRANTS? KEREN TELFED 15,000 immigrants in two weeks! Destitute im- After many months of gestation we announce migrants, without possessions, many without fam with pleasure, pride and hope the formal birth and ily. These immigrants, however, were not Jews. registration of a brand new Ottoman Society — They were Cubans "sent" out of Cuba to find KEREN TELFED. We hope that with the generous their fate in the United States. They sailed towards support of all who can afford to donate this Fund the American coast in their flimsy boats — often will grow rapidly and be strong. into horrific storms. Key West, and other west The object of KEREN TELFED is to try to render coast affluent communities called out to the rest financial assistance in various forms to former of the United States — and even to other coun Southern Africans, irrespective of their date of tries — to take some of the immigrants off their aliyah, who have no other address to turn to. hands as they couldn't cope with 15,000 people in Having regard to the current qualifications for two weeks, with more on the way. Their message loans and financial assistance, KEREN TELFED's was well received and help was forthcoming. arrival on the scene offers even old timers the In 1948, after the establishment of the State of possibility of obtaining much needed finance. Israel and in the years that followed, the Mediter The Fund will offer limited housing and com ranean Sea was thronged with boats, and the air mercial loans as well as personal loans. Further above buzzed with planes, bringing to Israel every more, built into the Fund is the aspect of Gemillut day about 1,000 Jewish immigrants who had fled Hassadim (Gemillus Hesed). The Fund has already from countries of oppression, Israel accepted these received contributions ranging from ILIOO.OOO to immigrants. She never complained that there were IL4,000, as well as substantial support from an t o o m a n y n o r d i d s h e a s k a n y o t h e r c o u n t r y t o Estate. Further support has been promised by t a k e . t h e m o f f h e r h a n d s . various institutions. KEREN TELFED will clearly not 15,000 immigrants in two weeks ! Destitute im be able to help everyone who turns to it for help migrants, without possessions, many without fam but the Committee controlling the distribution of ily. They continued to stream into Israel at this i t s f u n d s i s s e n s i t i v e t o t h e n e e d s o f t h e c o m m u incredible rate during the years 1948 to 1962 and nity and, motivated by a sincere desire to help, beyond. Israel was a tiny country, a mere fraction will undoubtedly come to the assistance of many of the great American continent and her popula applicants who hitherto had no one to turn to. tion a mere fraction of the great America popula This is the first time that the Israel Executive tion, and wealth she had none. She was exhausted has pioneered such a project. Having regard to its after years of fighting for her life, albeit exhilarated commendable objective and the vital role it can at her newfound freedom attained at such high play to promote the settling of former Southern price and with so much sacrifice. She could not Africans, a simple and personal call goes to all cope in the best way possible to help her outcast to help it succeed. Further details can be obtained Jews to the extent she would have wished, and from Keren Telfed, P.O.Box 11556, Tel Aviv — she called for help from the Diaspora. •Rhone 03-290131. Diaspora Jews heard the cry and they responded. Money came from the Diaspora and moral support and remains, far away and scattered. was never lacking. But the money was never quite It is to be hoped that this crucial period of enough to cope with the needs of the heavy swell Israel's history will not go unnoticed by Jews of of olim and the moral support was not, and never the western world as the call goes out to them, has been, a substitute for western aliyah. For especially to the younger generation, to come on apart from a relatively small percentage of dedi aliyah now when they are so much needed. cated and motivated Jews and Zionists, for the It is to be hoped, too, that it will not become most part the Jews of the west remained where an historical fact that today's call to western they were... Jewry went unheeded because the Jews of the It would not be correct to say that Israel stood western world, still with a generous hand in their alone with her immigrants then, nor does she stand pockets, turned their backs, blocked their ears — alone now in these worrisome days, for she has and prayed in their generous hearts that they would never been alone. But her larger family has been. be spared having to flee to Israel. HAVE A BURBER AT THE > i T D . T O U R S « T H AV E L 21 Ben Yehuda Street Tel Aviv ItTMl'i iMdins operator to and from South Africa Phone 03-652140 for all your travel arrangements. S A A ' s P A Y L A T E R P L A N I S B A C K NO LINKAGE!! Available on all fares including groups F u r t h e r d e t a i l s a t o u r o f fi c e S A A G R O U P S A T $ 1 , 0 6 0 S T I L L H A V E S E A T S F O R D E P A R T U R E O N . DATE DEPARTURE D A T E R E T U R N 30 June 27 July 30 June 3 August 25 August 21 September 22 September 19 October Other Groups at $1,210. 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Former South Africans living in Israel will no Entitled Jews and Zionism: the South African doubt find particular interest in this book's tracing Experience (1910 to 1967) and published by the of the history of all the manifestations of Zionism prestigious Oxford University Press, the bock is In South Africa, from political parties such as the the product of some seven years of research con Revisionists and the Zionist Socialists through to ducted by former South African Giddy Shimoni. youth movements like Habonim and Bnei Akiva. who lectures in the Department of Contemporary The book also contains an epilogue briefly bring Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ing events up to the late 1970$. The book was undertaken at the initiative of the The book, which is in hard cover, costs R12. in South African Zionist Federation which was in strumental in facilitating the author's research and South Africa. However, by speciai arrangement, a the book's publication. However, it is in no way limited number of copies will shortly be available an 'official history' and responsibility for its con from Telfed at the special price of R9. t e n t s r e s t s s o l e l y w i t h t h e a u t h o r. The book breaks new ground as a profoundly researched study of the Jewish community within NOW AVAILABLE the broader setting of South African society. It focuses on those political and social developments AMENDMENTS 1979/80 which affected the Jews as Jews, on the response of the Jewish community, and on the* internal to English Translations of political dimension of Jewish communal life re flected in Zionism and its ideological antagonists. I s r a e l Ta x L a w s Examining the remarkably Zionist character of South African Jewry, the author finds the explana A. G. Publications Ltd. tion in the Lithuanian-Jewish origins of the com P.O.B. 8100 munity and in the influence of the inter-colour pluralism and intra-white dualism of South African Jerusalem 91080 s o c i e t y.

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