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List of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa

January 01, 1970

This is a list of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is arranged by country of origin. The vast majority of African Jews inhabiting areas below the Sahara live in South Africa, and are mainly of Ashkenazi (largely Lithuanian) origin. A number of Beta Israel also reside in Ethiopia. Additionally, small post-colonial communities exist elsewhere.

Cameroon edit

DR Congo edit

Ethiopia and Eritrea edit

See also: List of Israeli Ethiopian Jews
See also: Beta Israel

Kenya edit

  • Israel Somen, businessman and diplomat
  • Jonathan Somen, entrepreneur
  • Erica Mann, architect, town planner, NGO leader, women's cooperatives developer
  • Igor Mann, veterinarian, senior civil service professional

Mozambique edit

  • Albie Sachs, ANC activist (lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa)
  • Ruth First, ANC activist (lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa)

Namibia edit

South Africa edit

Politicians and activists edit

Other Jewish ANC activists included Ruth First, Albie Sachs and five of the six whites arrested in the Rivonia Trial: Denis Goldberg, Lionel Bernstein, Arthur Goldreich, James Kantor, Harold Wolpe and Gaby Shapiro.

Academics edit

Cultural figures edit

Business and professional figures edit

Sports figures edit

Rugby union edit

Uganda edit

Zambia edit

Zimbabwe edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Gérard Prunier, The Rwanda crisis: history of a genocide, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, London, 1995, p. 319 n16 ISBN 978-1-85065-372-1
  2. ^ Collete Braeckman (6 May 2009). "Moses Katumbi. Katanga Champion". Courrier International. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  3. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  4. ^ American Jewish Year Book, 1983, p.271 Accessed 16 Nov 2006
  5. ^ Kaftory, Menahem (2011). "Frank H. Herbstein (1926-2011)". Acta Crystallogr B. 67 (3): 266–267. doi:10.1107/S0108768111017599. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  6. ^ Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek - Pg 145
  7. ^ "Driving force of city university's growth": Western Daily Press 19 July 2006: "the family is Jewish".
  8. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
  9. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "a devout Jew"
  10. ^ . Edinburgh: The Scotsman. 23 July 2002. Archived from the original on December 10, 2006.
  11. ^ "Jews in Sports: Jewish Olympic Medalists (1896 - Present)". Jewish Virtual Library.
  12. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  13. ^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1) p68
  14. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition, volume 19, p146
  15. ^ "Marxism, the Holocaust and September 11: An Interview with Norman Geras". eis.bris.ac.uk. 2002.

January 01, 1970
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This is a list of Jews from Sub Saharan Africa It is arranged by country of origin The vast majority of African Jews inhabiting areas below the Sahara live in South Africa and are mainly of Ashkenazi largely Lithuanian origin A number of Beta Israel also reside in Ethiopia Additionally small post colonial communities exist elsewhere Contents 1 Cameroon 2 DR Congo 3 Ethiopia and Eritrea 4 Kenya 5 Mozambique 6 Namibia 7 South Africa 7 1 Politicians and activists 7 2 Academics 7 3 Cultural figures 7 4 Business and professional figures 7 5 Sports figures 7 5 1 Rugby union 8 Uganda 9 Zambia 10 Zimbabwe 11 See also 12 ReferencesCameroon editYaphet Kotto actor Cameroonian father DR Congo editLeon Kengo wa Dondo Prime Minister of Zaire Polish Jewish father 1 Moise Katumbi businessman and politician Greek Jewish father 2 Olivier Strelli fashion designerEthiopia and Eritrea editSee also List of Israeli Ethiopian JewsSee also Beta Israel Ephraim Isaac Phd Princeton Scholar Adisu Massala politician Esti Mamo Ethiopian Israeli model Meskie Shibru Sivan actress and singer Yosef Ben Jochannan historianKenya editIsrael Somen businessman and diplomat Jonathan Somen entrepreneur Erica Mann architect town planner NGO leader women s cooperatives developer Igor Mann veterinarian senior civil service professionalMozambique editAlbie Sachs ANC activist lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa Ruth First ANC activist lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa Namibia editHarold Pupkewitz entrepreneur Lithuanian born South Africa editPoliticians and activists edit Hilda Bernstein anti apartheid activist Lionel Bernstein anti apartheid activist Harry Bloom anti apartheid activist Jules Browde barrister jurist and anti apartheid activist Law school classmate of Nelson Mandela Arthur Chaskalson chief justice Abba Eban Israeli diplomat South African born Andrew Feinstein former ANC MP author amp anti arms trade activist Bram Fischer anti apartheid activist Bernard Friedman anti apartheid MP Richard Goldstone judge and international war crimes prosecutor Joel Joffe human rights activist Ronnie Kasrils former South African Intelligence Minister Tony Leon former opposition leader Joe Slovo ANC activist and leader of the South African Communist Party Harry Schwarz anti apartheid politician lawyer and diplomat Helen Suzman anti apartheid MP Harold Hanson QC and strong supporter of civil liberties Other Jewish ANC activists included Ruth First Albie Sachs and five of the six whites arrested in the Rivonia Trial Denis Goldberg Lionel Bernstein Arthur Goldreich James Kantor Harold Wolpe and Gaby Shapiro Academics edit Abraham Manie Adelstein UK Chief Medical Statistician 3 Selig Percy Amoils Inventor amp Surgeon 4 Moses Blackman crystallographer Sydney Brenner biologist Nobel Prize 2002 Leo Camron educationalist Sydney Cohen pathologist Jewish Year Book 2005 p214 230 Meyer Fortes anthropologist Max Gluckman anthropologist Frank Herbstein crystallographer 1926 2011 5 Aaron Klug chemist Nobel Prize 1982 Ludwig Lachmann economist 6 Arnold Lazarus psychologist Roland Levinsky 7 biologist Stanley Mandelstam physicist Jewish Year Book 2005 p214 Shula Marks historian Jewish Year Book 2005 p215 Frank Nabarro physicist Jewish Year Book 2005 p214 Seymour Papert Artificial Intelligence pioneer Peter Sarnak mathematician Isaac Schapera anthropologist Jewish Year Book 2005 p215 Anthony Segal biochemist Jewish Year Book 2005 p214 Joseph Sonnabend HIV AIDS researcher Phillip V Tobias palaeoanthropologist Joseph Wolpe psychotherapist Lewis Wolpert developmental biologist Basil Yamey economist Jewish Year Book 2005 p215 315 Solly Zuckerman UK zoologist Max Price Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town Cultural figures edit Lionel Abrahams poet Jillian Becker writer Dani Behr TV presenter Harry Bloom writer and lecturer Johnny Clegg World Beat musician John Cranko choreographer Adam Friedland comedian and podcaster Graeme Friedman writer David Goldblatt photographer Nadine Gordimer writer Nobel Prize 1991 Laurence Harvey actor Ronald Harwood playwright Manu Herbstein writer Dan Jacobson writer Sid James comic actor Danny K pop singer William Kentridge artist Lennie Lee artist Manfred Mann Manfred Lubowitz R amp B keyboardist Sarah Millin writer Trevor Rabin guitarist amp film composer Jonathan Shapiro Zapiro political cartoonist Antony Sher stage actor Janet Suzman stage actress Business and professional figures edit Raymond Ackerman supermarket tycoon Alfred Beit diamond magnate Donald Gordon founder of insurance company Liberty Life shopping centre owner amp philanthropist Sydney Jacobson newspaper editor 8 Solomon Joel financier 9 Sol Kerzner hotel amp casino owner Sammy Marks early entrepreneur from Pretoria Ernest amp Harry Oppenheimer diamond tycoons amp philanthropists Harry converted to Christianity Percy Yutar South Africa s first Jewish attorney general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial 10 Walter Matulis JR Co owner of a driver training business Walter was raised as Roman Catholic only to find out in the 6th decade of his life that his ancestors were Lithuanian Jews Walter remains a Christian while identifying himself as being of Jewish blood Sports figures edit Ali amp Adam Bacher cricketers Leo Camron rugby union player and cricketer Okey Geffin rugby union player Harry Isaacs Olympic boxing medalist 11 Ilana Kloss tennis player Sarah Poewe swimmer Philip Rabinowitz runner 100 year old sprinter Jeremy Reingold World Champion Swimmer Rugby Player Jody Scheckter Formula 1 driver Shaun Tomson surfer Mandy Yachad cricketer Rugby union edit Max Baise South African rugby union referee 12 Louis Babrow Leo Camron South African who helped introduce rugby to Israel 13 also a cricketer Okey Geffin South African Rugby Union player 14 Joe Kaminer Jonathan Kaplan South African who holds the world record for refereeing the highest number of international rugby union test matches 12 Alan Menter South African Rugby Union Player Cecil Moss South African rugby union player and coach Sydney Nomis South African Rugby Union player Wilf Rosenberg rugby union player Fred Smollan Joel Stransky South African rugby union playerUganda editGershom Sizomu rabbiZambia editDenise Scott Brown architect Stanley Fischer IMF economistZimbabwe editNorman Geras professor of Government 15 Anthony Gubbay former chief justice Laurence Levy pioneering neurosurgeon Alexander Pines chemist Roy Welensky prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and NyasalandSee also editAfrican Jews List of Jews List of African American Jews List of South Africans Category Black Jewish peopleReferences edit Gerard Prunier The Rwanda crisis history of a genocide C Hurst amp Co Publishers London 1995 p 319 n16 ISBN 978 1 85065 372 1 Collete Braeckman 6 May 2009 Moses Katumbi Katanga Champion Courrier International Retrieved 4 February 2016 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography American Jewish Year Book 1983 p 271 Accessed 16 Nov 2006 Kaftory Menahem 2011 Frank H Herbstein 1926 2011 Acta Crystallogr B 67 3 266 267 doi 10 1107 S0108768111017599 Retrieved 1 May 2013 Hayek s Challenge An Intellectual Biography of F A Hayek Pg 145 Driving force of city university s growth Western Daily Press 19 July 2006 the family is Jewish Oxford Dictionary of National Biography the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson a Jewish couple Oxford Dictionary of National Biography a devout Jew Percy Yutar Edinburgh The Scotsman 23 July 2002 Archived from the original on December 10 2006 Jews in Sports Jewish Olympic Medalists 1896 Present Jewish Virtual Library a b Letter from Cape Town the Jewish Chronicle Archived from the original on 2009 12 08 Retrieved 2010 06 26 Bath Richard ed The Complete Book of Rugby Seven Oaks Ltd 1997 ISBN 1 86200 013 1 p68 Encyclopaedia Judaica Second Edition volume 19 p146 Marxism the Holocaust and September 11 An Interview with Norman Geras eis bris ac uk 2002 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of Jews from Sub Saharan Africa amp oldid 1123304610, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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