Avondale To St. Bede’s Camps Bay Fritz Sonnenberg Richmond Hateld Green Point Urban Park Ravenscraig Cape Town Stadium Ocean View Springbok Joubert Sydney High LevelCheviot N Dysart Beach Torbay Haytor Ben Nevis Varney’s Modena To Mouille Point Granger Bay & Sea Point Roos Cavalcade Ocean View Upper Portswood Portswood Signal Hill Chepstow Merriman Vesperdene Braemar Main Carreg Strand Wessels Bertrand H e l TO SEA TO SEA e n Dock POINT POINT S City Sightseeing u z m CAPE TOWN Red Bus route Waterkant a n Ebenezer B Ella o CITY CENTRE Bus stops Voetboog u De Smidt l Yusuf August e v a r Astana Tanabaru d Strand Albert Napier Liddle Military A SHORT HISTORY OF JEWISH CAPE TOWN Queens Cobern MAP TO Prestwich Loader Bantam Longmarket Bond Woodside Burnside Brownlow Dixon Napier Cambridge Pentz Dawes Somerset Camden Jews have been involved in the exploration and settlement of the Cape since Europe first developed an interest in finding Alfred Port JEWISH Leeuwenvoet Signal Hudson alternate routes to India. The early Portuguese navigators Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco Da Gama would not have been able to Warren De Hoop Chiappini Dock BayView Lion Hastings St. Michael’s Tamboerskloof Chiappini Wale make their journeys without the Jewish mapmakers and the astronomical tables drawn up by Abraham Zacuto. Varsity Military Bryant Hout Tamboerskloof Strand Hilligers Rose Church Hospital Quarry Hill Whitford Castle Dorp from England with the 1820 Camps Bay. Grandson of Aaron, The Jewish profile in Western Peace Jordaan Waterkant CAPE Regent TO THE Carlsbrook V&A settlers. Benjamin Norden Alfred de Pass’ donations of Cape has changed. In the Leeukop TO CABLEWAY, Buiten Upper Pepper Upper Buitengracht Upper Bloem Buitengracht WATERFRONT CAMPS BAY, Riebeeck Sq brought together the first minyan paintings and etchings, formed first two decades of the HOUT BAY New Church Duncan New Church Prestwich on Yom Kippur 26th September the nucleus of Iziko South African 20th century nearly every Bree Mechau Town Kloof Victoria Bree 1841, when 17 men, including National Gallery’s collection, little town had its Jewish 8 Bath Nicol Jamieson Simeon Marcus and Dr Frankel, and a room is named in his community, its Jewish Eaton Pepper Hout Dorp Park Bloem Buiten Carlsbrook Kloof Ave. Kloof Church Loop Castle Orphan Buitensingel Loop Loop met at his house, Helmsely honour. hoteliers and shopkeepers, Derwent Camp Waterkant De Lorentz De Kloof Kloof CTICC Cottage, 5 Hof Street. A plaque its minyan, its synagogue and Wale TO TABLE Prestwich Upper Long Long Riebeeck Shortmarket Longmarket MOUNTAIN Strand Long marks the site on a house in the its cemetery. These country Grey’s Sisulu Walter Faure Beckham Dorman grounds of the Mount Nelson communities have nearly all Rheede Keerom Lower Burg Thibault Burg Greenmarket Burg Jetty Wharf Green Sq Hotel. vanished. Camp ge Dean Sq Gardens n 15 a r Queen Victoria 16 Hans Strydom Hans Wilkinson 14 St. Georges O In 1842 the new congregation More than 80% of South Union Weltevreden The Company’s Garden Hof Mount bought two plots of ground PIC SAJM African Jews now live in Stephen Nelson Heerengracht Welgemeend Adderley in Woodstock for what would the two major metropolitan Curtis Hofmeyer In Cape Town itself, the arrival 12 13 Cape Town Station become the Albert Road centres - 60% live in Bureau of the East European immigrants Hof Spin Paddock Ave Parliament Although Jews were shareholders Cemetery. Johannesburg and 22% in Lingen 9 resulted in a proliferation of 11 Church Trafalgar and directors of the Dutch East 1-7 8 Sq Cape Town. Cape Town Jewry 17 10 Lower Plein The first Jewish marriage took societies, schools, clubs and Hateld St. John’s Plein India Company, the company only has also benefitted from the Annandale place in 1844, between Amelia organisations to help them settle Darling Mostert Buxton Longmarket employed Protestants. There are contribution of German Jews Corporation Grand From 1881, a steadily increasing and establish themselves. Rayden Barnet Marcus and Michael Benjamin, Glynnville Parade records of baptised Jews working number of Jewish immigrants in the 1930s and then three Wandel City Hall in the St George's Church under Gordon Wandel at the Cape in 1669. arrived in South Africa from The Cape Town Hebrew decades later the Sephardi Molteno Oranjezicht St. Quintons Hope the Senior Colonial Chaplain, The first building to be used as Glynn Parade Boulevard Hertzog Eastern Europe, mainly from Congregation outgrew its prem- Jews from Rhodes Island (via Commercial Founders Wesley Freedom Rev Hough in a ceremony in Roeland a synagogue was purchased in Belvedere Garden Lithuania and Latvia. It is ises and on September 15th 1905, the Congo and Zimbabwe) Old Marine Old Caledon of religion which, with the permission 1849, on the corner of Bouquet Breda Buitenkant Duncan estimated that 40 000 Jews moved to a new and larger most of whom settled in Sea Castle was only of the Attorney-General, all and St John’s Street 10 . 1 500-seat Great Synagogue – Point and established their Glynn of Good Martin instituted by arrived in the Cape between 3 Harrington Hope allusions to the Trinity had been or colloquially, the Gardens Shul Civic In 1857, the first Jewish 1880 and 1910, and a further own synagogue. 18 Myrtle Mill Governor de carefully removed. Their son was Harrington 30 000 between 1910 and - opened by Hyman Liberman, the Forest Upper Orange Hiddingh Buitenkant Canterbury Sq Mist, during organisation, the Philanthropic to become the first barmitzvah first Jewish mayor of Cape Town. The new South African Moray MaynardUpper Canterbury Darling Society of the Jewish Community 1948. The new immigrants Wesley Solan the rule of the boy in 1858. constitution guarantees Scott Clare settled mainly in District Six, Prince Primrose Christiaan Barnard Batavian Republic in 1804, and of the Cape of Good Hope, South African Jewish Museum Drury equality to all and prohibits Schoonder Hammerschlag In 1848 the first Sefer Torah was today's Jewish Community Woodstock, and areas close to Louis Gradner Louis guaranteed when the British took discrimination on grounds Glynn Mount Caledon acquired, brought from England Services, was established the city. Most found it easier Upper Buitenkant over in 1806. The first ‘practicing’ which included race, gender, Upper Maynard Upper Mill by Aaron de Pass, a shul elder. to find work in the small Albert Jew and Jewish doctor in South Mckenzie Wicht On Rosh Hashanah, 13th sex, pregnancy, marital status, oulevard His brother Elias was the shul country towns and farming ela B Africa, Dr Siegfried Frankel, ethnic or social origin, colour, nd September 1863, the first Constitution Gore a secretary. They were shipowners areas, which were economically M arrived in 1808 (his surgery was at sexual orientation, age, n custom-built synagogue in sub- De Villiers o who built the first facilities for undeveloped. Soon Jewish 30 TO WOODSTOCK ls 9 Roeland Street). disability, religion, conscience, Roeland M3 e shipping repairs and bought the Saharan Africa, now incorporated communities began to spring Luton TO AIRPORT Tennant N belief, culture, language and Jewish Routes and Roots in Organised Jewish worship was into the South African Jewish American confederate raider up all over South Africa. birth. initiated by Jews who arrived Alabama, the ship captured off Museum 2 was consecrated. Cape Town & Surrounds Highlands Bradwell Aandblom New Market Davenport De Waal Grisnez District Six Seymour Aspeling Chapel Gardenia Keizergracht Woodstock Stethoek Kuyper Mellish Constitution WALKING TOUR OF Windburg Lymington South African Jewish Café Riteve Water Fountain Houses of Parliament Iziko Fawley Sir Lowry Road 2 Russell Basket 6 7 11 15 MuseumJustisie 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape Town 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape 90 Plein Street, Cape Town The Old Town House Florida Ixia Dormehl Gladiolus Arum Plantation Town The Houses of Parliament contain JEWISHVredehoek CAPELambert TOWNDelphinium Peak 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape Town Cowley Popular kosher ‘milchik’ restaurant Greenmarket Square, Cape Town Exner Exner Philips Lewin Saddle Opened by former President Nelson The water fountain is designed as the Mendelssohn Collection Gray Nelson and take-aways, with well stocked Built in 1756 to replace the Watch Exner Russell Francis a tribute to Patrons and Friends Watsonia Mandela in 2000. 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