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This is a list of
Jews from
Sub-Saharan Africa . It is arranged by country of origin. The vast majority of
African Jews inhabiting areas below the
Sahara live in
South Africa , and are mainly of
Ashkenazi (largely
Lithuanian ) origin. A number of
Beta Israel also reside in
Ethiopia . Additionally, small post-colonial communities exist elsewhere.
Cameroon
DR Congo
Ethiopia and Eritrea
Kenya
Mozambique
Albie Sachs , ANC activist (lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa)
Ruth First , ANC activist (lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa)
Namibia
South Africa
Politicians and activists
Hilda Bernstein , anti-apartheid activist
Lionel Bernstein , anti-apartheid activist
Harry Bloom , anti-apartheid activist
Jules Browde , barrister, jurist and anti-apartheid activist. Law school classmate of Nelson Mandela.
Arthur Chaskalson , chief justice
Abba Eban , Israeli diplomat (South African-born)
Andrew Feinstein, former ANC MP, author & anti-arms trade activist
Bram Fischer , anti-apartheid activist
Bernard Friedman , anti-apartheid MP
Richard Goldstone , judge and international war crimes prosecutor
Joel Joffe , human rights activist
Ronnie Kasrils , former South African Intelligence Minister
Tony Leon , former opposition leader
Joe Slovo ,
ANC activist and leader of the
South African Communist Party
Harry Schwarz , anti-apartheid politician, lawyer and diplomat
Helen Suzman , anti-apartheid MP
Harold Hanson , QC and strong supporter of civil liberties
Other Jewish ANC activists included
Ruth First ,
Albie Sachs and five of the six whites arrested in the
Rivonia Trial :
Denis Goldberg ,
Lionel Bernstein ,
Arthur Goldreich ,
James Kantor ,
Harold Wolpe and Gaby Shapiro.
Academics
Abraham Manie Adelstein , UK Chief Medical Statistician
[3]
Selig Percy Amoils , Inventor & Surgeon
[4]
Moses Blackman , crystallographer
Sydney Brenner , biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)
Leo Camron , educationalist
Sydney Cohen , pathologist (
Jewish Year Book , 2005, p214, 230)
Meyer Fortes , anthropologist
Max Gluckman , anthropologist
Frank Herbstein, crystallographer, 1926-2011
[5]
Aaron Klug , chemist, Nobel Prize (1982)
Ludwig Lachmann , economist
[6]
Arnold Lazarus , psychologist
Roland Levinsky ,
[7] biologist
Stanley Mandelstam , physicist (
Jewish Year Book 2005 p214)
Shula Marks , historian (
Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
Frank Nabarro , physicist (
Jewish Year Book 2005 p214)
Seymour Papert , Artificial Intelligence pioneer
Peter Sarnak , mathematician
Isaac Schapera , anthropologist (
Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
Anthony Segal , biochemist (
Jewish Year Book 2005 p214)
Joseph Sonnabend , HIV/AIDS researcher
Phillip V. Tobias , palaeoanthropologist
Joseph Wolpe , psychotherapist
Lewis Wolpert , developmental biologist
Basil Yamey , economist (
Jewish Year Book 2005 p215,315)
Solly Zuckerman , UK zoologist
Max Price , Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cape Town
Cultural figures
Lionel Abrahams , poet
Jillian Becker , writer
Dani Behr , TV presenter
Harry Bloom , writer and lecturer
Johnny Clegg , World Beat musician
John Cranko , choreographer
Adam Friedland , comedian and podcaster
Graeme Friedman , writer
David Goldblatt , photographer
Nadine Gordimer , writer, Nobel Prize (1991)
Laurence Harvey , actor
Ronald Harwood , playwright
Manu Herbstein , writer
Dan Jacobson , writer
Sid James , comic actor
Danny K , pop singer
William Kentridge , artist
Lennie Lee , artist
Manfred Mann (Manfred Lubowitz), R&B keyboardist
Sarah Millin , writer
Trevor Rabin , guitarist & film composer
Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro), political cartoonist
Antony Sher , stage actor
Janet Suzman , stage actress
Business and professional figures
Raymond Ackerman , supermarket tycoon
Alfred Beit , diamond magnate
Donald Gordon , founder of insurance company
Liberty Life , shopping centre owner & philanthropist
Sydney Jacobson , newspaper editor
[8]
Solomon Joel , financier
[9]
Sol Kerzner , hotel & casino owner
Sammy Marks , early entrepreneur from
Pretoria
Ernest &
Harry Oppenheimer , diamond tycoons & philanthropists (Harry converted to Christianity)
Percy Yutar , South Africa's first Jewish
attorney general and
prosecutor of
Nelson Mandela in the
1963 Rivonia Treason Trial .
[10]
Walter Matulis JR. Co owner of a driver training business. Walter was raised as Roman Catholic only to find out in the 6th decade of his life that his ancestors were Lithuanian Jews. Walter remains a Christian while identifying himself as being of Jewish blood.
Sports figures
Ali &
Adam Bacher , cricketers
Leo Camron , rugby union player and cricketer.
Okey Geffin , rugby union player
Harry Isaacs , Olympic boxing medalist
[11]
Ilana Kloss , tennis player
Sarah Poewe , swimmer
Philip Rabinowitz (runner) , 100-year-old sprinter
Jeremy Reingold , World Champion Swimmer, Rugby Player
Jody Scheckter , Formula 1 driver
Shaun Tomson , surfer
Mandy Yachad , cricketer
Rugby union
Max Baise , South African rugby union referee.
[12]
Louis Babrow
Leo Camron , South African who helped introduce rugby to Israel.,
[13] also a cricketer
Okey Geffin , South African Rugby Union player
[14]
Joe Kaminer
Jonathan Kaplan , South African who holds the world record for refereeing the highest number of international rugby union test matches.
[12]
Alan Menter , South African Rugby Union Player
Cecil Moss , South African rugby union player and coach
Sydney Nomis , South African Rugby Union player
Wilf Rosenberg , rugby union player
Fred Smollan
Joel Stransky , South African rugby union player
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
See also
References
^
Gérard Prunier , The Rwanda crisis: history of a genocide , C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, London, 1995,
p. 319 n16
ISBN
978-1-85065-372-1
^ Collete Braeckman (6 May 2009).
"Moses Katumbi. Katanga Champion" .
Courrier International . Retrieved 4 February 2016 .
^
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^
American Jewish Year Book, 1983, p.271 Accessed 16 Nov 2006
^ Kaftory, Menahem (2011).
"Frank H. Herbstein (1926-2011)" . Acta Crystallogr B . 67 (3): 266–267.
doi :
10.1107/S0108768111017599 . Retrieved 1 May 2013 .
^ Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek - Pg 145
^ "Driving force of city university's growth": Western Daily Press 19 July 2006: "the family is Jewish".
^ Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography : "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
^ Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography : "a devout Jew"
^
"Percy Yutar" . Edinburgh:
The Scotsman . 23 July 2002. Archived from
the original on December 10, 2006.
^
"Jews in Sports: Jewish Olympic Medalists (1896 - Present)" . Jewish Virtual Library .
^
a
b
"Letter from Cape Town | the Jewish Chronicle" . Archived from
the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2010-06-26 .
^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997
ISBN
1-86200-013-1 ) p68
^
Encyclopaedia Judaica , Second Edition, volume 19, p146
^
"Marxism, the Holocaust and September 11: An Interview with Norman Geras" . eis.bris.ac.uk . 2002.