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	African Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The largest influx of Jews to Africa came after the Spanish Inquisition and expulsion of the Jews in Spain in 1492, and Portugal and Sicily soon afterwards.
		It is also more than possible that certain Nigerian Jews in the Nri families may be descendents of Levitical (Levite Priests) migrants from Djerba, Tunisia whom were said to have left Judea and settled in North Africa before and after the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem.
		Main articles: History of the Jews in Algeria, History of the Jews in Tunisia, History of the Jews in Morocco, and History of the Jews in Egypt
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_Jew (2330 words)

	AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Jewish settlers in South Africa, [1915-1982]
		Administrative/Biographical history: During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, significant numbers of Jews emigrated from Eastern Europe, Russia and elsewhere, to South Africa.
		Matters were interrupted by the South African War of 1899-1902, during which many Jews were forced to leave, but the influx resumed when peace was restored.
		Archival history: The material was donated to ICS by Baruch Hirson, and appears to have been given to him by Riva Krut, who accumulated it in the course of research work for a thesis on the subject.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/16/4595.htm (379 words)

	The Myth of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
		The Lemba of Southern Africa — The Jews of Africa
		The myth of the Ten Lost Tribes prompted many Jews and non-Jews to actively search for the location of the Ten Tribes as their return to the Land of Israel was recognized as one of the missions that would be accomplished in the Messianic days and a sign of the general redemption and salvation.
		Following his contacts with the Jews of Dagestan, Jacob Samuel claimed that they are descendants from the Ten Lost Tribes, although the Jews of Dagestan themselves did not have such a belief, as stated by Jacob Samuel himself.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/TenLostTribes.asp (5585 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Jews of South Africa
		...And in the opinion of the editors of The Jews in South Africa: A History, the South African Jews of today "have inherited some of the qualities of the Litvaks-their warm-heartedness and generosity, their practical-mindedness, a strong feeling of Jewish solidarity, and a love of learning combined with a somewhat critical attitude towards religious tradition...
		THOUGH there have been Jews in South Africa almost since the first days of European settlement of the Cape in the middle of the 17th century, the South African Jewish community of today is...
		...The claim made in the History that the Zionist movement has had greater support from the South African Jewish community than from any other in the world is strikingly borne out by the fact that per head of population the community gives more money than any other to the various appeals for Israel...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V23I1P45-1.htm (3432 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: History of the Jews
		The Jews of Italy fared better during the same period, owing to the fact that the flourishing republics of Venice, Florence, Genoa, and Pisa appreciated and needed them as capitalists and diplomatists; and it is worthy of notice that the Italian Jews were very prompt in availing themselves of the newly invented art of typography.
		As the Jews were apparently in the way of the secession, they were subjected to a violent persecution during the course of the war (1328), and to oppressive measures after Navarre had become a separate kingdom.
		The conciliar legislation of the time was generally unfavourable to the Jews, and it culminated in the anti-Jewish measures of the Fourth Council of the Lateran (1215), among which may be mentioned the exclusion of Jews from all public offices, and the decree that they should wear a Jew badge.
	www.photius.com /religion/history_of_the_jews.html (13160 words)

	H-Net Review: Jocelyn Hellig on Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa
		A Jewish presence in South Africa long preceded the institution of apartheid and the rudiments of the country's racial system prevailed long before the term "apartheid" was used.
		It was elected to protect the South African Jewish community, a responsibility it did not betray, notwithstanding the fact that its historical stance is often frowned upon in South Africa's new democracy.
		Individual Jews, however, were at the forefront of the struggle, Jewish radicals being disproportionately prominent among white anti-apartheid activists.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=81281118262556 (2558 words)

	Semester At Sea - Fall 2003
		Travel to the Jewish Museum in Cape Town where you will meet with the curator for a presentation on the history of Jews in South Africa as well as the current situation regarding the Jewish community in the country, with special focus on Cape Town.
		After a presentation on races in South Africa, how they have been classified and portrayed, we will focus on the recent return of the remains of Saartje Baartman from the Museum in France where they had been kept since the early 19th century.
		Amy Biehl was a young American Fulbright Scholar who was stoned to death in South Africa in 1993 where she had gone to help in the struggle against apartheid.
	www.semesteratsea.com /voyages/fall2003/fa2003_07.html (4776 words)

	The Jews of Africa -- The Jews of South Africa
		Though Jews accompanied some of the first white colonizers to South Africa in the mid-1800s, most Jewish immigrants after the 1880s were from Lithuania.
		ugh some Jews were involved in anti-apartheid leftist entities like the Socialist party and the labor movement, most pre WWII South African Jews identified with the white ruling parties of Botha and Smuts.
		South African Jewry had always demonstrated strong Zionist characteristics, and despite its overt anti-Semitism the South African government was consistent in its support of Israel.
	www.mindspring.com /~jaypsand/sa2.htm (604 words)

	SA-SIG - Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy: How Many Jews in South Africa? by Professor Allie Dubb, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
		But since the mid-70's thousands of Jews have emigrated from South Africa, some have re-immigrated, and some (mainly Israelis) have immigrated.
		Thus the Jewish population of South Africa comprised all (and only) those who had declared their religion to be Jewish in the official census.
		Thus in a 1991 socio-demographic study, it was concluded that the number of Jews had declined from its peak of 118,000 to something between a maximum of 106,00 and a minimum of 92,000.
	www.jewishgen.org /SAfrica/dubb-1.htm (489 words)

	A Short History of the Jews of Greece:Ancient Times to the 1940's
		The Jews, because of their close associate with the Ottoman administration, were massacred along with the Turks.
		We hear of the first ‘new’ Jews in the city when the Bavarian King Otto I of Greece settled in Athens in 1834, for with him came a man named Max Rothschild, perhaps the first Jew to arrive in the new capital.
		In 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella proclaimed the Edict of Expulsion for the Jews of Spain, Sultan Bayezid II proclaimed that Jews from Spain would be welcome in the Ottoman Empire, and over 20,000 Sephardic or Iberian Jews arrived in Thessaloniki the same year.
	www.greecetravel.com /jewishhistory/ancient.html (2015 words)

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	Museum Guestbook :: National Museum of American Jewish History
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		We are doing a history of our synagogue and wondered if you would have any materials or information about our synagogue during the time period of 1924-1970 when Wynnefield served as its home.
		The Board of Trustees and Staff of the National Museum of American Jewish History offers its deepest condolences to the families of the seven brave astronauts who lost their lives in the Columbia tragedy and to the larger NASA family.
	www.nmajh.org /guests.htm (9038 words)

	Jews of South Africa
		The Jewish Community of Cape Town, South Africa
	www.haruth.com /JewsSouthAfrica.html (26 words)

	FELDMAN Family Tree
		All known descendants of this family moved to South Africa before WW2, except for 2 grandaughters of Shneur ZALMAN who were in Skapiskis with their families when the Germans entered and their brother Itsik FELDMAN who moved to NY, c.
		Jules FELDMAN writes: "We were the biggest family of FELDMANs in South Africa and our family originates from Skapiskis in Lithuania.
		Shneur ZALMAN FELDMAN son of Nochem, who moved to Skapiskis, from place unknown, to marry Musha Weitz and was still living in 1889 in Skapiskis.
	www.loebtree.com /feldman.html (836 words)

	The Lemba -- The Black Jews of Southern Africa
		The team collected DNA samples from Bantu (African), Yemeni (Arab), and Sephardic Jews and Azhkenazi Jews (including Cohanim from both communities) to compare the amount of similarity that existed between each of these groups.
		Like an oral history, but written in the letters of their DNA, the Lemba Y chromosome hands from father to son a living record of the past.
		The Lemba: The Black Jews of Southern Africa
	www.freemaninstitute.com /Gallery/lemba.htm (809 words)

	South Africa (Suid Afrika) Genealogy: Resources For Family History Research
		South Africa (Suid Afrika) Genealogy: Resources For Family History Research
		Build your Family Tree with all other Family Historians and Genealogist from South Africa and around the world
		Whit's End Genealogy - South Africa Whitlock - Whitfield
	www.kindredtrails.com /south_africa.html (147 words)

	A History of Jews in South Africa from Earliest Times to 1895 - HERRMAN, LOUIS
		A History of Jews in South Africa from Earliest Times to 1895 - HERRMAN, LOUIS
		HERRMAN, LOUIS A History of Jews in South Africa from Earliest Times to 1895
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	Bibliography
		HERMANN, L., A history of the Jews in South Africa from the earliest times to 1895.
		SARON, G. and L. The Jews in South Africa A History.
		MALAN, A., The use of historical photographs as source for cultural history: The Sammy Marks photograph collection.
	www.nfi.org.za /sammy/bibliography.html (270 words)

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		What is wrong with a Jew marrying a non-Jew?
	www.AskMoses.com (340 words)

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		A History of the Jews in South Africa.
		Mark Twain Abroad; The Cruise of the Quaker City.
	www.emperornorton.net /booklist.txt (164 words)

	Judaism: Morocco's last Jews
		The first Jews arrived in North Africa with the Phoenicians around the time of the founding of Carthage (813 B.C.E.) and were involved in handicrafts and trade along the caravan routes from Africa to the Mediterranean.
		Within ten years all the jews will have left, and only a memory will remain of their 2,800-year history in Morocco.
		A second wave of Jews entered North Africa after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. During this time many of the local Berber tribes converted to Judaism, resulting in the mixture of native practices with Jewish traditions.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n4_v46/ai_20583586 (442 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - South Africa
		Violence in South Africa during the 1970's led to an exodus of many white citizens, including Jews, who were fearful of their future in the country.
		Many of the Jews who remain in the country do so out of the conviction that post-apartheid South Africa needs their support, and will soon pay social and economic dividends; of course, the rest of those who remain do so simply because they cannot afford to leave.
		South Africa has the highest violent crime rate in the world, about ten times that of the United States; residences in the middle of cities are often surrounded by electrified ten-foot-high walls topped with barbed wire.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/South_Africa.html (3639 words)

	"Tikvath Israel Synagogue, Capetown, South Africa
		From Louis Herrman: "History of the Jews in South Africa"
		The old synagogue building also houses today the Museum of the History of the Jewish People in South Africa, established in 1958 and contains as well an exhibition of Jewish ceremonial art.
		The Tikvat Israel Synagogue was the first synagogue established in South Africa by the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Synagogue/CapeTown.asp (3639 words)

	Internet African History Sourcebook
		Map of North Africa in which figures the Atlas Mountains, the king of Mali (Mansa Musa), the king of Organa, the king of Nubia, the king of Bablyon, and the Red Sea.
		These are full descriptions of the countries concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There are also useful bibliographies.
		Africa is both the most clearly defined of continents - in its geography- and the hardest to pin down in historical terms.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/africa/africasbook.html (4137 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - South Africa
		Violence in South Africa during the 1970's led to an exodus of many white citizens, including Jews, who were fearful of their future in the country.
		Many of the Jews who remain in the country do so out of the conviction that post-apartheid South Africa needs their support, and will soon pay social and economic dividends; of course, the rest of those who remain do so simply because they cannot afford to leave.
		South Africa has the highest violent crime rate in the world, about ten times that of the United States; residences in the middle of cities are often surrounded by electrified ten-foot-high walls topped with barbed wire.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/South_Africa.html (4137 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Jews of South Africa
		...And in the opinion of the editors of The Jews in South Africa: A History, the South African Jews of today "have inherited some of the qualities of the Litvaks-their warm-heartedness and generosity, their practical-mindedness, a strong feeling of Jewish solidarity, and a love of learning combined with a somewhat critical attitude towards religious tradition...
		THOUGH there have been Jews in South Africa almost since the first days of European settlement of the Cape in the middle of the 17th century, the South African Jewish community of today is...
		...The role of Jews in the development of diamond and gold mining, on which the South African economy still leans so heavily, was a prominent one, but many of these Jewish mining magnates were of German and English origin, and few of them, comparatively, were Litvaks...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V23I1P45-1.htm (4137 words)

	BBC NEWS World Africa How African is North Africa?
		Africa is Africa - and as long as you were born within the borders of any African country, you are the same as any other African from any other African country.
		Let the North African join the Arab League if they feel Arab, let the Ethiopian Jews go back to Israel if they feel Jewish.
		It was what the Arabs called present day Morocco, because of its western location in north Africa.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3421527.stm (7411 words)

	Internet African History Sourcebook
		Africa is both the most clearly defined of continents - in its geography - and the hardest to pin down in historical terms.
		Map of North Africa in which figures the Atlas Mountains, the king of Mali (Mansa Musa), the king of Organa, the king of Nubia, the king of Bablyon, and the Red Sea.
		An Orthodox mission society based in South Africa, whose aim is to encourage Orthodox Christians to participate in the global mission of the Church.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/africa/africasbook.html (4137 words)

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