Newsletters
On this page we post CHOL Newsletters and other communications about Community History On-Line.
Newsletters
| No. | Date | Topics covered |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 2024 December | A guided tour round the 'Share Your Stories' web pages with 153 original stories, and a meeting with two writers, with South African connections, who have recently published crime fiction novels. Compiled by Gail Lustig. |
| 11 | 2024 November | High Holydays in SA in the 1950s; new research on SA Jewish communities; Share Your Stories special event; welcoming new members. |
| 10 | 2024 October | Celebrating the Jewish community of Parow. Compiled by Professor Richard Mendelsohn. |
| 9 | 2024 September | A New Year wish; drought and deluge Beaufort West; concession stores Roodepoort; Kimberley Jewish connection to the popular colourful Basotho blankets; CHOL Seminars, November/December 24; resonant snippets about 1947 from the SA-SIG Newsletter of March 2001. |
| 8 | 2024 August | Note from Israel; web updates: Maitland, Bellville, Beaufort West; SAJAC connection; SA-SIG Newsletter of March 2001; and CHOL September Seminars. Compiled by Gail Lustig. |
| 7 | 2024 July | Web updates: Roodepoort, Worcester, and 'Medical' communities; also medical and military memoirs; new resources including bibliography and the '67 Jewish Yearbook; SA-SIG Newsletter #2; and CHOL September Seminars. |
| 6 | 2024 June | Limpopo Jewish communities; website additions to Ceres, Stellenbosch, Roodepoort, Kimberley; SA Jewish military history; Stories - October 7; SA SIG Newsletter 1 |
| 5 | 2024 May | Set in Stone (art exhibition); new memoirs; new Share Your Stories |
| 4 | 2024 April | Sarembock family, Ceres; the Medical Kayes' memoir; Share Your Stories, 10 March; and Legends and Legacies recordings |
| 3 | 2024 February | CHOL presentations – Legends and Legacies, Share Your Stories, Muizenberg, Roodepoort, Kimberley Virtual Cemetery, musical memoirs |
| 2 | 2024 January | Muizenberg, Roodepoort, Kimberley Virtual Cemetery, Oudtshoorn, CHOL activities, Share Your Stories |
| 1 | 2023 December | Music Seminars, Community updates, Reflections on Israel since October 7 |