South Africa

The white South African Jewish community is the largest, most affluent and most Western Jewish community on the continent. Most white South African Jews are of European origin, hailing primarily from Britain, Germany and Lithuania. In the century that they have lived in Africa, members of the community have been active in all areas of the nation’s politics, as participants in the apartheid regime, as willingly oblivious citizens and as rabid anti-apartheid activists.

Jay will visit South Africa in April and return with photos of members of the white Jewish community, as well as a sense of the complex relationship between white Jews and the blacks who pursue Jewish observances in the southern part of the continent. 

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