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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

Mendel Apter and Fresh Lemons

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)

Alfred Beit Part 1

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 

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/kimberley-synagogue-anniversary-marked-by-south-african-jews

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

http://www.jta.org/1931/11/04/archive/a-jewish-pioneer-of-south-africa-colonel-sir-david-harris-grand-old-man-of-south-african-jewry-def


Read about the worrying cemetery murder
http://www.africanjewishcongress.com/ncrsa1.htm

Wayne Sussman on Kimberley at Limmud Oz, Melbourne in June 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ksSR5CJAfY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOTs-YRqZFU