CHOL – Community History On-Line

A forum for those involved in preserving the footprint of Southern African Jewish community life in digital form

Newsletters

On this page we post CHOL Newsletters and other communications about Community History On-Line.


Newsletters

No. Date Topics covered
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.
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.
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

Other communications