Genealogy Guide: South Africa

Lynfield, Geoffrey. In Search of Gustav: The Story of the Lilienfeld (Later Lynfield) Family Covering the Last 200 years 1800-1920 (Boca Raton, FL, 2005). This is the first of three books about the history of Geoffrey Lynfield's family. Leo Baeck Institute   ME 1519

ORT-OZE vocational training, South Africa. 1946/8/9. Four images of several young men working at various machines. YIVO   RG 380

Rosenstein, Willy. Autobiographical note 1892-1936. Willy Rosenstein was born in Stuttgart in 1892. He was a pilot in World War I. After World War I, he became the secretary of the "Salamander" shoe company and a partner in his father-in-law's leather business. He emigrated to South Africa in 1936 and founded a pilot school there. Leo Baeck Institute   ME 527

Stein-Wyler, Suzanne. Jews in South Africa collection 1954-1994. Short essays about the emigration of German Jews to South Africa and about the history of its Jewish population in general. Leo Baeck Institute   AR 490

Wischnitzer, Mark. Bericht über Eine Informationsreise nach der Suedafrikanischen Union, den Beiden Rhodesien und Kenya (Britisch-Ostafrika). The collection consists of three reports on visit to South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya (1936) to explore possibilities for Jewish emigration from Germany.  German.   Leo Baeck Institute   MS 695

*For family collections, check the CJH catalog.

Belling, Veronica. Bibliography of South African Jewry (Cape Town, South Africa: Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, 1997).  Reading Room   DT 764 .J4 B4 1997

Belling, Veronica. Yiddish Theatre in South Africa: A History from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1960 (Cape Town, South Africa: Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, 2008).  YIVO   000126265

Berger, Nathan. In Those Days, In These Times: Spotlighting Events in Jewry - South African and General (Johannesburg, South Africa: Kayor, 1977).  YIVO   000118974

Feldberg, Leon, ed. South African Jewry: A Survey of the Jewish Community, Its Contributions to South Africa, Directory of Communal Institutions, and a Who's Who of Leading Personalities (Johannesburg, South Africa: South African Jewry and Who's Who., 3rd rev. ed. 1976). Reading Room   DS 135 .A26 S6 1976

Kuper, Simon Myer. South African Jewry today (Johannesburg, South Africa: S.A. Jewish Board of Deputies, 1949). YIVO   000037724

Sandler, David Solly. The Ochberg Orphans and the Horrors from Whence They Came: The Rescue in 1921 of 181 Jewish Orphans by Isaac Ochberg, the Representative of the South African Jewish Community, from the Horrors of the 'Pale of Settlement' (Wanneroo, West Africa: David Solly Sandler, 2011).  YIVO   000130954

Der Afrikaner (Johannesburg, 1921-1933). Microfilm.  YIVO   1964-Y-309-319

Der Tsienist. (Yohanesburg : Aroysgegebn durkh di Zid Afriḳaner Tsienistisher Federatye, 1914).  YIVO   000002645a

Foroys (Yohanesburg: Aroysgegebn durkhn Yidishn Kultur-farayn in Yohanesburg, 1937-1939). Yiddish.  Microfilm.  YIVO   1966-Y-696

Hashalom. (Durban: Durban Jewish Circle, 1991-1993, 1999). English.  YIVO   015005532 

Idishe Shtime. (Johannesburg, 1924). Yiddish. Microfilm.  YIVO   1964-Y-352

The Jewish Herald: Organ of the New Zionist Organization of South Africa (Johannesburg: Newzo Press and Publishing Co., 1949-1977).  YIVO   015005068

South African Jewish Times (Johannesburg: Union Publications, 1936-1938,1946-1973). YIVO   000000969 and YIVO   015005067

The South African Jewish Year Book (Johannesburg: Fieldhill Publishing House, 1929, 1954-1961).  American Jewish Historical Society   DS 135 .A25 A1 and YIVO   015003736 and YIVO   015002019 and YIVO   015007460 and YIVO   000094600

United Mizrachi Organization Newsletter (Houghton: United Mizrachi Organization of South Africa, 1982-1984). YIVO   015010019 

Unzer Veg (Yohanesburg: Idishen Sotsyalistishen Fereyn "Poyle-Tsien").  Yiddish. YIVO   015003268 and YIVO   1966-Y-717 (microfilm)

Yidishe Post (Jewish Mail) (Yohanesburg: 1937-1938).  YIVO   015002220

**For more information about Jewish newspapers and periodicals published in South Africa in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish that the CJH possesses, check the CJH catalog.