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Jewish Cape Town City Sightseeing CAPE TOWN Red Bus route CITY CENTRE Bus stops MAP TO A SHORT HISTORY OF JEWISH CAPE TOWN Jews have been involved in the exploration and settlement of the Cape since Europe first developed an interest in finding JEWISH alternate routes to India. The early Portuguese navigators Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco Da Gama would not have been able to make their journeys without the Jewish mapmakers and the astronomical tables drawn up by Abraham Zacuto. CAPE initiated by Jews who arrived confederate raider Alabama, The Jewish profile in Western from England with the 1820 the ship captured off Camps Cape has changed. In the settlers. Benjamin Norden Bay. Grandson of Aaron, Alfred first two decades of the brought together the first de Pass’ donations of paintings 20th century nearly every Town minyan on Yom Kippur 26th and etchings, formed the nucleus little town had its Jewish September 1841, when 17 men, of Iziko South African National community, its Jewish including Simeon Marcus and Gallery’s 8 collection, and a room hoteliers and shopkeepers, Dr Frankel, met at his house, is named in his honour. its minyan, its synagogue and Helmsely Cottage, 5 Hof Street. its cemetery. These country A plaque marks the site on a communities have nearly all house in the grounds of the vanished. 15 16 Mount Nelson Hotel. 14 More than 80% of South In 1842 the new congregation PIC SAJM African Jews now live in bought two plots of ground In Cape Town itself, the arrival the two major metropolitan 13 12 in Woodstock for what would of the East European immigrants centres - 60% live in Although Jews were shareholders 9 become the Albert Road resulted in a proliferation of Johannesburg and 22% in 11 and directors of the Dutch East Cemetery. Cape Town. Cape Town Jewry 17 1-7 8 10 societies, schools, clubs and India Company, the company organisations to help them settle has also benefitted from the only employed Protestants. There The first Jewish marriage took From 1881, a steadily increasing and establish themselves. contribution of German Jews are records of baptised Jews place in 1844, between Amelia in the 1930s and then three Marcus and Michael Benjamin, number of Jewish immigrants working at the Cape in 1669. arrived in South Africa from The Cape Town Hebrew decades later the Sephardi in the St George's Church under Congregation outgrew its prem- Jews from Rhodes Island (via Freedom Eastern Europe, mainly from the Senior Colonial Chaplain, The first building to be used as a ises and on September 13th 1905, the Congo and Zimbabwe) of religion Lithuania and Latvia. It is Rev Hough in a ceremony in synagogue was purchased in 1849, moved to a new and larger most of whom settled in Sea was only estimated that 40 000 Jews which, with the permission on the corner of Bouquet and St 1 500-seat Great Synagogue – Point and established their instituted of the Attorney-General, all arrived in the Cape between 3 John’s Street 10 . or colloquially, the Gardens Shul own synagogue. by Governor 1880 and 1910, and a further 18 allusions to the Trinity had - opened by Hyman Liberman, the de Mist, In 1857, the first Jewish organisation, 30 000 between 1910 and 1948. been carefully removed. Their first Jewish mayor of Cape Town. The new South African during the son was to become the first the Philanthropic Society of the The new immigrants settled constitution guarantees Jewish Community of the Cape mainly in District Six, Woodstock, South African Jewish Museum rule of the Batavian Republic barmitzvah boy in 1858. equality to all and prohibits in 1804, and guaranteed when of Good Hope, today's Jewish and areas close to the city. Most discrimination on grounds the British took over in 1806. In 1848 the first Sefer Torah Community Services, was established found it easier to find work in the which included race, gender, The first ‘practicing’ Jew and was acquired, brought from small country towns and farming On Rosh Hashanah, 13th September sex, pregnancy, marital status, Jewish doctor in South Africa, Dr England by Aaron de Pass, a areas, which were economically 1863, the first custom-built ethnic or social origin, colour, Siegfried Frankel, arrived in 1808 shul elder. His brother Elias was undeveloped. Soon Jewish synagogue in sub-Saharan Africa, sexual orientation, age, (his surgery was at 9 Roeland the shul secretary. They were communities began to spring up all 30 now incorporated into the South disability, religion, conscience, Street). shipowners who built the first over South Africa. Jewish Routes and Roots in African Jewish Museum was belief, culture, language and facilities for shipping repairs 2 birth. Cape Town & Surrounds Organised Jewish worship was and bought the American consecrated. WALKING TOUR OF 2 South African Jewish 6 Café Riteve 7 Water Fountain 11 Houses of Parliament 15 Iziko Museum 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape Town 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape 90 Plein Street, Cape Town The Old Town House JEWISH CAPE TOWN 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape Town Popular kosher ‘milchik’ restaurant Town The Houses of Parliament contain Greenmarket Square, Cape Town The water fountain is designed as the Mendelssohn Collection Opened by former President Nelson and take-aways, with well stocked Built in 1756 to replace the Watch a tribute to Patrons and Friends Mandela in 2000. This is a visual, gift shop. assembled by Sydney Mendelssohn, House, and now a museum that of the UJC Cape Town, who have TRACE AND EXPLORE interactive and high-tech museum T 021 465 1594 a diamond dealer, the first great houses the Old Dutch and Flemish deep roots in in the Mother City representing the story of the Jews E [email protected] collector of Africana and a compiler art collection donated in 1917 but now live elsewhere. of South Africa, their origins and www.caferieteve.co.za of the classic South African JEWISH HERITAGE T 021 465 1546 by Sir Max Michaelis, a Jewish contributions. Changing exhibitions Sun to Thurs 08h30 - 17h00; T 021 464 6700 Bibliography published in 1910. T 021 403 2201/2266 | www. E [email protected] gold magnate, as a “practical and a unique Netsuke (miniature Fri 08h30 – 14h30 www.ujc.org.za Jewish members of Parliament parliament.gov.za | Tours: Mon to www.sajewishmuseum.co.za expression of his affection for the Japanese sculpture from the 17th & continue to play a role in South Fri 10h00 and 12h00 – bring I.D. or in Cape Town & Surrounds Sun to Thurs 10h00 – 17h00; Fri 10h00 country in which he had spent his 18th century) collection add to your African politics. passport; booking essential 1 week in – 14h00; closed Sat & Jewish Holidays; advance. earlier days”. There is a memorial How can I connect with the local Jewish narrative experience. open Public Holidays to Michaelis in the courtyard. 8 Iziko South African past and present? National Gallery T 021 481 3933 What places and spaces reflect the Jewish footprint Mon to Sat 10h00 – 17h00 Government Avenue, Cape Town 12 Jan Christian Smuts in the Mother City? Great Synagogue 3 Important collection of South Statue by Sydney Harpley 88 Hatfield St, Gardens, Cape Town Where can I find my Jewish roots in Cape Town? African and international art. Jan Smuts was a signatory to the Oldest Jewish congregation in South The Hyman Liberman Memorial Balfour Declaration, a friend of Chaim 16 Queen Victoria Street Sailors filled their kegs at the The Jewish Map to Cape Town answers these questions Africa, established in 1841. The new Doors, carved by Herbert Vladimir Weizmann, first President of the State This street used to be called reservoir built by Zacharias and a whole lot more. Baroque style edifice (Architect: John Meyerowitz, honour Mayor Liberman, of Israel, and personally fund-raised Tuinpad (Garden Path) because Wagenaar in the 1660s. Remnants Parker) was opened by congregation “Nu?….so what else would you like to know?” who championed the establishment for Zionist organisations and lobbied it ran alongside the canal through of Wagenaar’s Reservoir can be President, Hyman Liberman, Mayor of of the gallery and was a generous against the 1939 White Paper. Several which flowed the stream from seen in the Golden Acre, Adderley Feedback is always welcome. Cape Town, on 13 September 1905. The philanthropist. The doors represent streets in Israel and Kibbutz Ramat Platteklip Gorge on Table Mountain. Street. foundation stone was laid by Governor The walking tour on this map is designed to help T 021 465 1405 ‘Hebrew Migration from Many paintings, drawings, sculpture and Yochanan were named after him. His Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson. Stained E [email protected] Lands’, ‘Arrival in the Land of Peace prints donated between 1926 and government gave de facto recogni- SPONSORS you find Jewish places and spaces in the city centre. glass windows of Cape flowers and www.gardensshul.org and Prosperity’ and ‘Rebecca at the 1949, and a room named after him, tion to Israel on 24 May 1948. See also grapes installed 1936 and new stained 17 Cape Town High Open to the public weekdays Well’. The bas-relief sculpture over commemorate this benefactor. Iziko statue by Ivan Mitford Barberton in Information that reflects the major migration from glass windows in 2013. Pulpit transferred School THE COHEN FAMILY 10h00 – 15h30 the main entrance to the Gallery was SANG also houses the collection of front of the Iziko Slave Lodge 13 . South African Jewish Museum CHARITABLE TRUST Eastern Europe and the ongoing contribution of from St John’s Street Synagogue 1 . carved by his wife Eva Meyerowitz, Italian drawings donated by Lady Cnr Hatfield & Orange Streets, the famed scholar of West African Michaelis in 1930.
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