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The South African Jewish Museum is a museum of South African Jewish life, history and identity. The museum is situated in the downtown neighbourhood of Gardens in Cape Town . It is located in the grounds of Gardens Shul , and is in the same complex as the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Gardens Jewish Community Centre (which ...
Durban Jewish Club, also known as Durban Jewish Centre, [1] is an arts, culture and entertainment venue, an educational facility and a social and community hub in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was first established in 1931, and for a time it was the only country club in Durban that admitted Jews. [2]
The Jacob Gitlin Library in Cape Town, South Africa is an archive of information on Judaism, Jewish culture and history, and the nation of Israel. It was founded under the auspices of the South African Zionist Federation in 1959. The museum is situated in the downtown neighbourhood of Gardens in Cape Town.
The museum is situated in the downtown neighbourhood of Gardens in Cape Town. It is located in the grounds of Gardens Shul, and is in the same complex as the South African Jewish Museum and the Gardens Jewish Community Centre. It is also close to the Iziko South African National Gallery and Houses of Parliament. [5]
The centre is funded by South Africa's Jewish community and it partnered with the City of Johannesburg to choose a location for the site. [5] It is located on the previous site of the Bernberg Fashion Museum, started by two Jewish sisters, Anna and Theresa Bernberg, to house their fashion collections. [9]
South African Jewish Museum; South African Union for Progressive Judaism; T. A Time of Angels; U. Umhlanga Jewish Centre This page was last edited on 2 February ...
The South African Jewish Museum, opened in 2000, and housed in purpose-built modern buildings and in the original synagogue, known as 'The Gardens Shul', the oldest Jewish congregation in Southern Africa built in 1862. It is known as the “mother synagogue” of South Africa. [6] The twin-towered 'new' synagogue was built in 1905.
From 1880 to 1914, the Jewish population in South Africa grew from 4,000 to over 40,000. South African Jews have played an important role in promoting diplomatic and military relations between Israel and South Africa. [6] South Africa's Jewish community peaked in the 1970s with an estimated 120,000 Jews living in the country.