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Rosenthal, Monroe and Isaac Mozeson: Wars of the Jews: A Military History from Biblical to Modern Times, New York, Hipporcrene Books, 1990. Sand, Jay: "The Jews of Africa", Image Magazine, 5 May 2009; Williams, Joseph J.: Hebrewisms of West Africa: From Nile to Niger With the Jews, Ney York, The Dial Press, 1931. History of the Zimbabwe Jewish ...
South Africa – Jewish Encyclopedia "Jews on Commando", Saks, D.Y. (2005), Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy; Zimbabwe Jewish Community history web site A comprehensive overview of the history of the community, from early settlement in Northern and Southern Rhodesia to life today.
At the time of independence, Congo was home to 2,500 Jewish people. 50% of the Jewish population lived in Lubumbashi, while 70 Jewish families lived in Congo's capital Kinshasa. Jewish children at the time were taught classes in Hebrew and Judaism in public schools. In 2013, the Jewish population was around 320 and was settled mostly in Lubumbashi.
Many of the following articles relate to Jewish history in North Africa: African Jews; History of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire; History of the Jews under Muslim rule. History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire; Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries; List of Jews from the Arab world; Islamic Spain and Reconquista. Sephardi Jews; Berber ...
In the seventeenth century a Black Jewish community existed on the Loango coast in the Kingdom of Loango, in what is now the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.This community was first mentioned in 1777 and a more thorough description was provided by the scientific works which were produced by the German Loango Expedition of 1873–76.
In 1943, the Rhodesian Zionist Council and the Rhodesian Jewish Board of Deputies were established, later being renamed the Central African Zionist Council and Central African Board of Jewish Deputies in 1946. [2] After World War II, Jewish immigrants arrived from South Africa and the United Kingdom. By 1961, the Jewish population peaked at 7,060.
The Yeshiva College of South Africa (Yeshivat Beit Yitzchak), commonly known as Yeshiva College - and formerly known as Yeshivat Bnei Akiva - is South Africa’s largest religious Jewish Day School. The school is headed by Mr Rob Long [1] since 2018; the Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Nechemya Taylor as of 2021.
There is a one-year “pre-Semicha” program, also, which covers practical areas of Halakha, Jewish Law, additional to the “regular” components of Semicha. [ 3 ] The Yeshiva is an important [ according to whom? ] component of the Pretoria Jewish community - there is daily interaction between students and congregants, and one-on-one torah ...