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Perlman and Guttwoch Family Collection

  • Collection
  • 2013-

The Perlman and Guttwoch Family Photograph Collection comprises a number of family photographs, many dating back to the 1800's and including a few military photographs and portraits.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Phyllis Friedlander Collection

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The Phyllis Friedlander Collection includes photographs depicting various aspects of her own and her family's life, such as her and husband Richard Friedlander's work as Mayor and Mayoress of Cape Town (1971-1973), social occasions and general family life.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Pincus Family Collection

  • Collection
  • 2018

The Pincus Family Collection, donated by David Pincus, brings together photographs and correspondence relating to generations of the Pincus Family who were also relatives of the Kaplan family. Particular emphasis is on the Free State town of Winburg, situated 116 kilometres north of Bloemfontein.
" The first Jewish settlers arrived in 1870 from Germany and Eastern Europe. Several well known families settled there and members of the community fought on both sides in the Anglo-Boer War. The Winburg Congregation was started in 1900, the first Synagogue was built in 1922 and reached 120 persons in 1936. By 1951 only five families were left. When the synagogue closed in 1977 much of its furniture was sent to new Kempton Park synagogue near Johannesburg. Rabbi Casper sent one Sefer Torah to Israel" [Source:https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Seduva/descendants/pincus/pincus.htm; https://elirab.me/jewish-life-in-country-communities-in-south-africa/] .

Pollak and Wolfson Family Collection

  • Collection
  • 2015-

The Pollak and Wolfson Family Collection comprises a number of family photographs, that included cermonies such as weddings, outings, school photographs, portraits and various photographs of family life.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Potchefstroom Collection

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Consisting of a large number of photographs, the Potchefstroom Collection depicts various aspects of Jewish life, divided into seven sub-series named as General; Business; Marriages; Pioneers Day; Community Involvement; Sports and hobbies and The Arts.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Rapeport Meyer Collection

  • Collection
  • 2014-

The Large Rapeport Collection comprises fifteen photograph and document series depicting the lives and events of various families connected to the Rapeport family.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections. If you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Robert Louis Dickman Collection

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  • 2014-

The Robert Louis Dickman Collection contains photographs of soldiers and an unnamed women, likely Mrs E Dickman. The collection includes a number of correspondence written during World War II.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Robertson Hebrew Congregation Archive Collection

  • Collection
  • 2022

The Robertson Hebrew Congregation Archive Collection is shared to sajmarchives by the Kaplan Centre and UCT archival collections. The physical collection is stored in the Kaplan Centre archives under the collection number BC873 and was digitised in 2022 for online display.

Robertson was established in 1853, on the farm Over het Roode Zand, and attained municipal status in 1902. It is named after Dr William Robertson. The town is situated in a fertile valley in an important wine-growing district and is known for its sherry, dessert wines and liqueurs. Other crops include fruit, lucerne, almonds, coriander, and vegetables, as well as wool. Robertson was a thriving centre of ostrich farms from the late 1880s until c1916.

Some of the first Jews who lived in Robertson from 1857 onwards were Levi Witsteyn, a converted school teacher, Abraham Rosenthal, a Russian trader and farmer, Joseph Gluckman, a Russian wagon maker and farmer, and Harry Abraham Millin, a Lithuanian.

Other settlers in the 1890s were marks Simenhoff in 1893, Maurice and Ellen Greenwall and Rev Klein in 1985, Willie and Rose Millin, who were married in Robertson in 1896, Joseph Johanberg from Sweden, Isaac Marks and Moses Rom from Zesmer, Russia, and Maurice ‘Max’ Goldstone from England.

Prior to the establishment of a congregation in 1881, Louis Silbert arranged minyanim for the High Holy Day festivals. The Robertson Hebrew Congregation was founded around 1895, with Rev B Klein appointed as the first minister. The first Jewish wedding in Robertson was between Ellen Buirski and Maurice Greenwall, solemnised in 1895 by Rev Rabinowitz, who came from Cape Town to officiate the event. A Talmud Torah operated from that year with 20 scholars. The synagogue was designed by HC Marcus, built by Solomon Zurnamer and consecrated by Rev B Klein. The synagogue was called the Knesset Israel Synagogue and was situated on Adderley Street. On 24 March 1896 Rev Bender solemnised the marriage of Willie and Rose Millin, the first wedding to be held in the Robertson Synagogue.

Rev Bender dedicated a torah to the congregation on 19 August 1896. On 20 August he consecrated a burial ground at the bottom of White Street. Members of local churches attended the ceremony. An infant named David Rosenzweig was the first grave in the cemetery.

In 1897 services for the High Holy Days were conducted in the synagogue by Rev Klein and Isaac Marks. A general meeting to elect a congregation committee was held shortly afterwards.

In 1900 a ladies’ gallery was built as an addition to the synagogue, at a cost of £60.

Reference:
Rehbock, R. & Delvare, I. (eds.). 2007. Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities, Volume III. Johannesburg. The South African Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth.
Researcher: Alex Abrahams

Rubik Family Collection

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The Rubik collection contains several wedding photographs, taken at two separate wedding ceremonies, of the entire wedding party and the Rubik family members. Also included are various family photographs, including children playing and one young boy during what appears to be a Bar mitzvah ceremony.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Rummel Family Collection

  • Collection
  • 2016-

The Rummel Family collection contains images of two shtetls in Friederichstadt in Latvia. Also in this collection is an invitation to the opening of Highlands Place – a set of apartments for the elderly in Cape Town, held in 1979.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

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