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The Jews of South Africa: An Illustrated History to 1953. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press; in association with the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. ISBN 978-0-620-27097-7. Shain, Milton; Mendelsohn, Richard (2008). The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History. Jeppestown: Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86842-281-4.
K. Danny K; Morris Kahn; Ronni Kahn; James Kantor; Dena Kaplan; Mendel Kaplan (philanthropist) Raphie Kaplinsky; Asher Karni; Shmuel Katz (politician) Stan Katz (broadcaster)
In the 2000s, the Lemba Cultural Association approached the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, asking for the Lemba to be recognized as Jews by the Jewish community. The Lemba Association complained that "we like many non-European Jews are simply the victims of racism at the hands of the European Jewish establishment worldwide".
Afrikaner-Jews (Afrikaans: Afrikaner-Jode, also called Boerejode) are Jewish Afrikaners. [1] At the beginning of the 19th century, when greater freedom of religious practice was permitted in South Africa, small numbers of Ashkenazi Jews arrived from Britain and Germany. They established the first Ashkenazi Hebrew congregation in 1841. [2]
This is a list of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is arranged by country of origin. It is arranged by country of origin. The vast majority of African Jews inhabiting areas below the Sahara live in South Africa , and are mainly of Ashkenazi (largely Lithuanian ) origin.
Many Persian last names consisted of three parts in order to distinguish from other families with similar last names. Some Persian Jewish families that had similar surnames to their Muslim neighbors added a second surname at the end of their last names. As an example Jafar nezhad Levian (From the race of Japhet and from the Tribe of Levite ...
Pages in category "South African people of Jewish descent" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The most ancient communities of African Jews are the Ethiopian, West African Jews, Sephardi Jews, and Mizrahi Jews of North Africa and the Horn of Africa. In the seventh century, many Spanish Jews fled from the persecution which was occurring under the rule of the Visigoths and migrated to North Africa, where they made their homes in the ...