Community History On-Line Recorded Presentations
On this page we list the recorded presentations made by the CHOL community, with links to where you can read about or see them.
By clicking the 'Category' link you can see the recorded session, and if there is a link in the 'Topics' column you can read more about the session
Clicking on the title cell of any column sorts the table by that column (clicking again reverses the sort order).
| No. | Date | Category | Topics | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 2025: Jan 28 | Community | A Zoom presentation about CHOL - Community History On-Line to the AGM of SAJAC (South African Jewish Americans) | Gail Loon Lustig |
| 39 | 2025: Jan 23 | Community | A face-to-face presentation about CHOL - Community History On-Line to CHOL members and others at the South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town | Geraldine Auerbach MBE |
| 38 | 2024: Dec 4 | Community | Who is researching what about South African Jews these days | Professor Shirli Gilbert, UCL |
| 37 | 2024: Nov 27 | Community | Finding Displaced Relatives: how South Africans found their missing loved ones during and after the Second World War | Gavin Beinart-Smollan |
| 36 | 2024: Nov 20 | Stories | Two writers with South African links who have recently written and published crime fiction books talk about their books and their back story | Orna Sandler Klein, born in Israel to South African parents, and Natalie Conyer, who grew up in Bellville and now lives in Sydney, Australia |
| 35 | 2024: Nov 6 | Community | The paradox of South African Jewish emigration since the end of apartheid | Reviva Hasson, social scientist at the Kaplan Centre |
| 34 | 2024: Sep 24 | Community | The Jewish community of Parow: a microcosm of Jewish life in South Africa | Professor Richard Mendelsohn |
| 33 | 2024: Sep 15 | Community | 100 years of Jewish life in South Africa 1880 – 1980 | Geraldine Auerbach MBE |
| 32 | 2024: Sep 10 | Community | Jews and diamonds in Kimberley | Geraldine Auerbach MBE |
| 31 | 2024: Sep 10 | Military | South African Second World War veterans' role in the fledgling State of Israel | Naomi Schamroth Rapeport |
| 30 | 2024: Apr 2 | Medicine | Dr Hannah-Reeve Sanders (1928-2024), the first female Chief Medical Superintendent of Groote Schuur Hospital (1976-1986) | Leila Bloch (courtesy of the Friends of the Cape Medical Museum) |
| 29 | 2024: Apr 4 | Community | Legends and Legacies film series, #3 of 3: focuses on painters, sculptors, drama producers and dancers | Introduced by producer Mark Wade, researched and narrated by Alan Swerdlow |
| 28 | 2024: Mar 28 | Community | Legends and Legacies film series, #2 of 3: focuses on academics, including academic rabbis, scientists, doctors and lawyers who have made their mark nationally and internationally in Jewish studies, medicine, the law and social justice | Introduced by producer Mark Wade, researched and narrated by Alan Swerdlow |
| 27 | 2024: Mar 21 | Community | Legends and Legacies film series, #1 of 3: focuses on engagement with civic society; Jewish mayors and representatives in Parliament; financiers and magnates; service in the Boer and British armies; references to community health; the Holocaust; and Zionism | Introduced by producer Mark Wade, researched and narrated by Alan Swerdlow |
| 26 | 2024: Mar 10 | Stories | Tokolosh, Linda Frysh; The Jews of South Africa, Mark Wade; The Letter, Karine Schomer; Some Days, Jodi Neelin; Stompie, Harry Friedland | Linda Frysh, Atlanta, Georgia; Mark Wade, Johannesburg; Jodi Schneider Neelin, Portland, Oregon; Karine Schomer, San Francisco; Harry Friedland, Cape Town |
| 25 | 2024: Feb 4 | Community | Demonstration and Blessing of the Kimberley Virtual Jewish Cemetery | Family of those buried in Kimberley as well as Geraldine Auerbach, Larry Galansky, Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft and Barney Horwitz, Chairman of the community |
| 24 | 2023: Dec 5 | Music | From Kroonstad to Victor Hugo via Fleet Street: the musical journey of Herbert Kretzmer (Session not recorded. Hear one of Herbert’s songs from Les Mis as a prayer to bring home the hostages) | Danielle Lockwood (Chichester) |
| 23 | 2023: Dec 5 | Music | The story of the Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir | Evelyn Green (Johannesburg) |
| 22 | 2023: Nov 28 | Music | King Kong – the all-black musical and its all-Jewish production team, 1959 | Mark Wade and Alan Swerdlow (Johannesburg) |
| 21 | 2023: Nov 28 | Music | Collecting Jewish Music at (DOMUS) Stellenbosch University | Dr Santie de Jongh, Special Collections Librarian (Stellenbosch) |
| 20 | 2023: Nov 21 | Music | The musical Rabinowitz family in South Africa – from cantors to the concert stage | Eli Rabinowitz (Perth, Australia) |
| 19 | 2023: Nov 21 | Music | At my Wits end and other beginnings – a woman composer of international acclaim | Professor Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph (Johannesburg) |
| 18 | 2023: Nov 14 | Music | How does a girl from Kimberley get to meet the Queen – a journey in Jewish music | Geraldine Auerbach MBE (London) |
| 17 | 2023: Nov 14 | Music | The King of Violinists in the Land of Gold – Heifetz in South Africa, 1932 | Dr Michael Brittan (Denver, Colorado) |
| 16 | 2023: Sep 3 | Stories | Dealing with deafness, discovering a family member, personal search for a grave, apartheid SA | Beulah Gross / Gail Loon Lustig, Solly Kaplinski, David Bass, Raphael Shevelev / Karine Schomer |
| 15 | 2023: Jul 11 | Community | Parow and Durbanville communities, SA Jewish soldiers in WWII, bibliography of SA Jewry, Malmesbury website | Richard Mendelsohn, Vicky Scher, Naomi Schamroth Rapeport, Veronica Belling, Steve Albert |
| 14 | 2023: Apr 16 | Stories | Psychiatric illness, political experiences in apartheid SA, unloved family member | Sheila Swartzman, Karine Schomer, Harry Friedland |
| 13 | 2023: Mar 14 | Community | Creating a Community Website - Example: Stellenbosch | Geraldine Auerbach (chair), Dave Bloom (Zimbabwe), Eli Rabinowitz (many sites), Gary Sussman (Vryburg), Bramie Lenhoff (Upington), Katie Garrun (Kaplan Centre), Gail Loon Lustig (Bellville), Gerald Potash (Stellenbosch) |
| 12 | 2023: Mar 08 | Community | The small Jewish communities of Brandfort, Ceres, Stellenbosch and Beaufort West | Faisia Shaskolsky, Jos Kahn, Gerald Potash and Natie Finkelstein |
| 11 | 2023: Feb 19 | Stories | Miners’ strike, death, poetry, military, and bagels | David Kaplan, Fonda Dubb, Sheila Swartzman, Harris Green, Raphael Shevelev / Gail Lustig |
| 10 | 2023: Jan 22 | Stories | A tribute to Anthony Fagin, who died suddenly in 2022, by friends and family who read his story Vredefort | |
| 9 | 2022: Oct 24 | Stories | Personal essay, narration, memoir | Stanley Loon, Glenda Levitt, Harry Friedland, Basil Porter, Anthony Fagin |
| 8 | 2022: Sep 21 | Community | New CHOL website, Share your Stories, Jewish-Afrikaner relations, SA Jewish cookbooks, German refugees newsletter, SA Kehilalinks | Geraldine Auerbach, Gail Loon Lustig, Ivan Kapelus, Gavin Beinart-Smollan, David Lewin, Eli Rabinowitz |
| 7 | 2022: Aug 22 | Stories | Personal memoirs, true stories, fiction | Solly Kaplinski, Sheila Swartzman, Lynette Karp, Glenda Levitt, Richelle Shem-Tov |
| 6 | 2022: Apr 13 | Community | Wits med grads, GPs in N Subs Cape Town, Old Jo'burg | Geraldine Auerbach, Gail Loon Lustig, Marc Latilla |
| 5 | 2022: Apr 6 | Community | Upington, SA-SIG, Small communities, Film archives | Bramie Lenhoff, Roy Ogus, Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, Sean O'Sullivan |
| 4 | 2022: Mar 30 | Community | Pros and cons, UJW, Starting a family archive | Gwynne Schrire, Karen Kallman, Leila Bloch |
| 3 | 2021: Aug 11 | Community | Zimbabwe, Virtual cemeteries, Kaplan Centre archive | Dave Bloom, Eric Berger, Katie Garrun |
| 2 | 2021: Aug 4 | Community | Vryburg, Muizenberg, Woodstock/Salt River | Gary Sussman, Rabbi Ryan Newfield, J-P Burke |
| 1 | 2021: Jul 28 | Community | Kimberley, JewishGen, SA Jewish Museum archives | Geraldine Auerbach, Eli Rabinowitz, Leila Bloch |
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