South Africa's Jewish history is the program for the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento, California, on Sunday October 18. San Francisco Bay area resident Roy Ogus was born in South Africa and is vice president of JewishGen's Southern African Jewish Genealogical SIG (special interest group). The meeting begins at 10am at the Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento. The South African Jewish community is large. While we may not know it, many of u
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Not a Jew . I pointed out previously that persons of Jewish descent in anti-Semitic societies sometimes become openly anti-Semitic themselves to prove their lack of loyalty to the Jewish community. The flip side is that people with no Jewish descent (e.g., with very high probability, Hitler) are often alleged by their political enemies to really be Jews, an allegation that fits in with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Jews run the world via stealth. To take an absurd example, neo-Nazi w
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An extensive section at the conference focused on the Italian Jewish community, in cooperation with ASSEI (The Israeli Association for the Study of History of Italian Jews) Here are some of the categories and lectures (E=English, H=Hebrew): The attitude towards the other in Italy Silvia Cappelletti (E) The Expulsions of the Jews from Rome under Tiberius and Claudius: A Juridical Study Yosef A. Cohen (H) The Place of the Apostate Alessandro Franceschi in the Jesuit Mission to Italian Jewry i
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Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899-1983)An article at Henry Makow’s site by Willie Martin caught my attention.A book overlooked by most people and published for sale mainly within the Jewish community states that the Rockefellers are Jews of Sephardic descent (meaning Spanish and Portuguese Jews). The work was published only for Jews some years ago. The work was compiled by the Jewish historian Malcolm H. Stern and entitled “Americans of Jewish Decent.”That book weighed 10 pounds and gave the hi
