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The South African Jewish Chronicle clippings Collection

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  • 2013

This Collection consists of twenty consecutive pages from one Issue of the South African Jewish Chronicle (SAJC), one of the newspapers aimed at a Jewish readership in South Africa around the beginning of the 20th century. This is specifically from the Johannesburg circulation of this newspaper, which is where the largest proportion of Eastern European (especially Lithuanian) Jewish immigrants settled. These pages - numbered 1062 to 1081 - consist of fifteen pages of articles and snippets from articles, and five pages of pre-paid advertisments, taken from Volume IV, Issue 65 of the New Series of the SAJC. This specific issue was distributed on the 29th of December, 1911, meaning that is one of the earlier Editions of this newspaper, reflecting the newsworthy content for South African Jews in the period before World War I.

Each item represents one page from this Issue of the newspaper, with multiple articles or advertisments on each page. While these page numbers are in the early thousands, it should be noted that it is characteristic of this newspaper to continue with the previous Issue's last page number as the precursor to the first page of the next Issue. The item descriptions aim to capture what the main highlights of that page are and what attitudes and norms are portrayed by these pages.

The SAJC was a weekly newspaper that was established in 1902 in Cape Town as an offshoot of the London Jewish Chronicle, later transferring to Johannesburg in 1905.

It is believed that these pages were preserved as they are a full Issue of the SAJC, from the first page to the back page. The Issue progresses from a Publisher's Notice, to other adminstrative details at the beginning of the Issue, to current affairs, a recurring theme of addressing and combatting anti-Semitism, promotion of Jewishness, a social & fashion section, Jewish Diaspora news, provincial/local news, arts & culture updates, political questions, opinion pieces, fiction writing, mining & financial news, and ending off with pre-paid advertisments.

Some notable examples in this Issue of Anglo-Jewish undertones, representing the general theme throughout the SAJC newspapers, can be found in articles specifically about charities that support British colonies, reporting on media and theatre that the King and Queen approve of or commend, and most notably the article about a former British Prime Minister (Benjamin Disraeli) as part of the longest article in the Issue.