Wednesday, January 7, 2009

SS Course 2009: The Jews of South Africa: Past, Present and Future

Course 122
Date:
19–23 January
Time: 11.15 am
Full Price: R270,00 Staff: R135,00 Reduced: R70,00

The Jews of South Africa: Past, Present and Future
Presented by Professors Richard Mendelsohn and Milton Shain, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town
Co-sponsored by the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town


The course seeks to recover the historical experience of South African Jews, a significant minority that never comprised more than four per cent of the white population in South Africa. Today it numbers about 80 000, less than one quarter per cent of the total population. The course will examine broad themes and issues in the South African Jewish experience, focusing on the making of the community, anti- Semitism, the transformation of South African Jewish identity, and Jews and apartheid. The final lecture will reflect on the future of South African Jewry.


LECTURE TITLES

  1. ‘New wine in old bottles’: the making of South African Jewry.
  2. Trials, tribulations and tzores: anti-Semitism and South African society.
  3. From South African Jews to Jewish South Africans.
  4. Community with a conscience? Jews and apartheid.
  5. Whither South African Jewry?

Recommended reading

  • Mendelsohn, R. & Shain, M. The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History. Jonathan Ball, 2008.
  • Mendelsohn, R. & Shain, M. (eds.) Memories, Realities and Dreams: Aspects of the South African Jewish Experience. Jonathan Ball, 2002.
  • Shain, M. The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa. University Press of Virginia/Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.
  • Shimoni, G. Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa. David Philip, 2003.

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