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Bp19585-Jewish Affairs-Chanuk 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 Dr Ittamar Avin University of Natal, Durban 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 2007 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. VOL. 64 b NO. 3 b CHANUKAH 2009 Editor: David Saks JEWS IN THE ANGLO-BOER WAR Jewish Bittereindes in the Anglo-Boer War David Saks .................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Wartime Letters by British Jewish Servicemen, 1899-1900 ............................................................................. 10 Harry Spanier: An Untoward Jewish Soldier Ann Rabinowitz ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 IN MEMORIAM “A Bright Star in a Chamber of Darkness”: Helen Suzman and Her Legacy Rhoda Kadalie ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 Recollections of Helen Suzman Colin Eglin ............................................................................................................................................................... 19 The Ultimate Dreamer: A Lament for Monty Sack Bernard Levinson ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 FIGHTERS FOR ZION Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky – Fighter, Visionary, Zionist John Simon ............................................................................................................................................................... 23 Some Gentile Zionists Cecil Bloom .............................................................................................................................................................. 29 ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS A Brief Journey through Spanish-Jewish History Bernard Katz ............................................................................................................................................................ 34 The Jews of Harbin Tony Leon ................................................................................................................................................................. 41 Not Forgotten Irina Shub ................................................................................................................................................................. 43 Chanukah – The Answer to Eskom Wolfy Matz ............................................................................................................................................................... 46 BOOK REVIEWS The Quest for Community: A Short History of Jewish Communal Institutions in South Africa, 1841-1939 David Saks ................................................................................................................................................................ 47 How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End Gary Selikow ............................................................................................................................................................ 48 NEW POETRY Ben Krengel, Lewis Levitz, Tamar .......................................................................................................................... 50 JEWISH AFFAIRS N CHANUKAH 2009 JEWISH BITTEREINDES IN THE ANGLO-BOER WAR * David Saks For a heady few months after the commencement was in overall command of all foreign troops) and of the Anglo-Boer War in October 1899, the forces fell in an attack on a blockhouse outside Kimberley. of the two Boer Republics were able, against all Goldman nearly survived the war. It was his bad expectations, to keep the British Imperial Lion on the luck to be on the wrong end of an enemy attack – not back foot. In the beginning, at least, it was the British British, but Zulu – at Holkrans in Northern Natal, not who were compelled to defend their territory against far from the famous Anglo-Zulu War battlefields of foreign invaders - in Natal, in the Central and North- Hlobane and Kambula. He was one of 56 burghers West Cape and even in Bechuanaland and Southern killed that day - 6 May 1902, a mere three weeks Rhodesia. In the process, several major towns were before the Treaty of Vereeniging brought the war to besieged and in trying to relieve them, British arms a close. suffered numerous stinging defeats. One Goldfain of Johannesburg was an unusual, All this now became a distant memory once the indeed it would seem a unique, case amongst the tide turned, as it had to do eventually, in mid- Boer Jewish veterans. Arriving in Johannesburg February 1900. From now on, the pursued turned shortly before the war, at the age of seventeen, he pursuer with a vengeance and by the middle of the was eventually captured, and on his release joined year total victory for one side, and defeat for the those ultimate verraiers [traitors], the National other, seemed imminent. The Boer capitals had fallen Scouts. and the Boer armies were being driven steadily Jewish bittereindes were largely spared the ordeal eastwards towards the Mozambique border. of having wives and children interned in the British Few anticipated that the war still had nearly two concentration camps, mainly because comparatively years to run. Too outnumbered to wage a conventional few of them had been living on farms at the time of war any longer, the Boers decided to decentralise, the war and because only a handful of them were splitting up into smaller units that roamed the married (most Jews in the Boers ranks tended to be countryside and harried the occupying power at both young and unattached). Nevertheless, a number every opportunity. of Jewish families were indeed interned and several After the fall of Bloemfontein and Pretoria, most young Jewish children are recorded as having died in of the Jews in the Boer forces took the Oath of captivity. One of them
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