Kimberley, South Africa
Articles about Kimberley
Interesting newspaper articles and also video clips and broadcasts pertaining to the Kimberley Jewish community:
‘Exodus’ article on Goldie Mehl and the Kimberley Jewish Community, Sunday Times 2 June 1996
Hidden Life of a Smous by Lorna Levy
The Memorial Road Synagogue (1902) History and Tour
Baronial Street Synagogue (1911) History and Tour
The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery by Trevor Toube
Sporting Prowess of the Kimberley Jewish Community
Kimberley Jews and the Second World War
Jewish Community of Upington
Jewish Wholesalers of Kimberley
Jabotinsky’s Visit to Kimberley in 1938
Spanish Flu Epidemic in Kimberley October November 1918
The History of the UJW History of the Kimberly Branch
Read Leon Chonin’s article about Jewish Education in Kimberley
Smous – the way many of our forefathers started out making a living in South Africa.
Read an article by Geraldine Auerbach MBE, London, January 2020. Smous
Read the fascinating story of Alfred Beit, Rhodes special friend and collaborator (revised version updated February 2023)
Alexandersfontein - Kimberley’s Fashionable Resort
Where our parents and grandparents dined, danced and even had their honeymoons!
By Geraldine Auerbach MBE (Posted September 2017)
History of Medicine on the Diamond Fields - Read the talk delivered by Dr Noel Kretzmar to the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine at his old Alma Mater, Edinburgh University in the 1970s
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1081541/pdf/medhist00119-0055.pdf
The Harry Oppenheimer Barmitzvah Myth
http://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2015/10/21/jewish-kimberley-full-of-old-wives-tales
Book review: The Last Mentsch’ a novel by Peter Bayer, partly set in Kimberley by Trevor Toube September 2015
Read Steve Lunderstedt’s historical article on the 112th anniversary of the opening of the Kimberley Memorial Road Synagogue from his site 'Kimberley Calls and Recalls...'
Read about the four Barmitzvahs that took place in Kimberley Shul in January 2005! http://www.africanjewishcongress.com/ncrsa2.htm
Read about the 110th anniversary celebrations of the Kimberley synagogue consecrated in 1902
Watch the SABC footage of the celebrations of 110 years on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=labuYuh4bRs
Read an interesting article from 1931 about Colonel Sir David Harris
Read about the worrying cemetery murder
http://www.africanjewishcongress.com/ncrsa1.htm
Wayne Sussman on Kimberley at Limmud Oz, Melbourne in June 14
Compiled by geraldine.auerbach@gmail.com
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