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SUMMARY:From Lullabies to Resistance: Women in Yiddish Song
DESCRIPTION:The Gertie Kessler Memorial Concert\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Women’s Month\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre presents a concert celebrating women through Yiddish song. Singers Caely-Jo Levy and Leigh Nudelman weave together stories and songs that trace the rich emotional landscape of Yiddish through women’s voices and experiences. \n\n\n\nTogether with their all-women band\, they journey from lullabies and love songs to tales of migration\, surviving the Holocaust\, resistance and hope. Discover the enduring power and beauty of Yiddish song: a living archive of memory\, humour\, longing and resilience. \n\n\n\nIssy’s Coffee & Gift Shop will be open until 16:00. Please pop in for refreshments before the concert. \n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\nCaely-Jo Levy (lead vocalist) \n\n\n\nCaely-Jo Levy has worked professionally as a singer\, actress\, dancer and choreographer for over two decades. As a vocalist\, she founded and fronts the band Yiddish\, and also performs with the klezmer/Balkan band Playing With Fire. She has sung jazz standards alongside some of South Africa’s finest jazz musicians. \n\n\n\nCaely-Jo works across both stage and screen as an actor and choreographer. Her recent television and film credits include White Lies\, A Scam Called Love\, The Emerald Purse and Pretty How Town. \n\n\n\nLeigh Nudelman (lead vocalist) \n\n\n\nLeigh Nudelman is a multidisciplinary creative practitioner whose work spans performance\, writing\, music and visual art\, while she explores Jewish identity\, womanhood\, family history and the layered histories of Johannesburg. \n\n\n\nAfter completing a Masters in Performance Making at Goldsmiths\, University of London\, she has developed work across theatre\, music\, dance\, research and ritual. Her long-running Yiddish music project has been performed throughout South Africa\, as well as internationally\, and recently featured in the documentary Yiddle Yiddle On. \n\n\n\nHer current interdisciplinary project\, Ten Things\, weaves ancient Jewish texts and personal stories into what she describes as a feminist grotesque midrash. Leigh is also co-founder of 9th Street and Beis Clef\, two Johannesburg-based initiatives exploring Jewish creativity\, ritual and community. \n\n\n\nAs a vocalist\, with a particular love for Jewish music\, Leigh sings soprano as a soloist with Beit Emanuel and the African Renaissance Ensemble. \n\n\n\nTulla Eckhart (backup vocals and guitar) \n\n\n\nKristel Birkholst (violin) \n\n\n\nMargot Smythe (cello)
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/from-lullabies-to-resistance-women-in-yiddish-song/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn Reflections from Dallas: Genocide\, Justice and Remembrance with Cathy Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Cathy Wilson shares an inside view of the Father Desbois Summer Academy on Genocide\, Justice and Remembrance at the University of Texas at Dallas\, where she was one of just 12 participants selected to attend. Organised by the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies and Yahad-In Unum\, the academy brought Cathy into conversation and collaboration with leading researchers and practitioners to explore how mass violence is documented ; from witness testimony and archival research to forensic investigation and digital humanities. \n\n\n\nStay for lunch at Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop to continue the conversation with Cathy and the JHGC team. \n\n\n\nTalk – free \n\n\n\nLunch (bagel bar & a drink) – R130
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/lunch-learn-reflections-from-dallas-genocide-justice-and-remembrance-with-cathy-wilson/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Passage to Sweden
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first in a series of three events marking 90 years since the arrival of the SS Stuttgart in South Africa\, and honouring the Jewish refugees from Nazism who rebuilt their lives here and around the world. \n\n\n\nDuring the Second World War\, geography and politics shaped very different fates for Jews in Sweden\, Norway\, Denmark and Hungary. Passage to Sweden tells how ordinary people\, and entire nations\, helped save thousands of Jewish lives: a powerful reminder that anyone can make a difference.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/film-screening-passage-to-sweden/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Unwelcome Arrivals: The Stuttgart Generation\, Ninety Years On
DESCRIPTION:On 26 October 1936 the Stuttgart docked in Cape Town\, carrying 537 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. They were among roughly 6\,000 German-speaking Jews who eventually found refuge in South Africa amid a climate of rising Afrikaner nationalism and antisemitism. Drawing on archival materials and hundreds of personal accounts\, this talk will follow the refugees’ trajectory from Nazi Europe and the lives they went on to build\, and explore why the Stuttgart’s arrival marked a turning point in South African Jewish history. \n\n\n\nShirli Gilbert is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London. She obtained her D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. She is a historian of modern Jewish life and has published widely on the Holocaust and its legacies; Jews\, ‘race’\, and racism; and Jews in South Africa. Her books include From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2017)\, Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World\, with Avril Alba (2019)\, and The Holocaust and Sub-Saharan Africa: A Documentary History\, with Roni Mikel-Arieli (forthcoming). She is currently writing a book about refugees who fled from Nazi Europe to sub-Saharan Africa in the 1930s and 40s.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/unwelcome-arrivals-the-stuttgart-generation-ninety-years-on/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Before the Door Closed: Rescue\, Refuge and Family Memory
DESCRIPTION:In 1936\, the SS Stuttgart was chartered to bring 545 German Jewish refugees to Cape Town\, the last ship carrying German Jewish immigrants permitted to land on South African soil before restrictive immigration legislation came into effect four days later and the gates closed. \n\n\n\nOn arrival\, these benighted passengers discovered they had landed in a politically hostile environment\, were viewed as an economic threat\, and that the Stuttgart had become a symbol of resistance to Jewish immigration. \n\n\n\nShortly after Hitler came to power in 1933\, Cape Town-based German Jewish businessman Leo Raphaely wrote to a cousin in Germany\, urging her to flee antisemitism and resettle in South Africa. His letter outlined a loophole that allowed German Jews to immigrate with only a valid passport and a £100 guarantee signed by a South African citizen. Serendipitously\, it was forwarded to the Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (German Jewish Aid Society) and widely circulated amongst Jewish communities across Germany\, ultimately culminating in the charter of the Stuttgart three years later. A trickle of requests for help soon turned into a torrent. Leo personally provided\, or secured\, financial guarantees for every one of the 545 passengers\, and through the SA German Relief Fund he established\, raised funds\, navigated official bureaucracy\, greeted the new arrivals\, and organised jobs and accommodation for them in local homes\, including his own. \n\n\n\nThe Stuttgart saga should not be forgotten\, not least because of the parallels between the perceived threat of foreign nationals competing for jobs in 1936 and the March and March-incited anti-immigrant fervour gripping South Africa today. The enormous impact these passengers and their descendants have had on South African society over the past ninety years provides a salutary lesson about the treatment of strangers in a strange land. \n\n\n\nNinety years on\, award-winning journalist Carolyn Raphaely tells the story of the man who helped make that voyage possible: her grandfather\, Leo Raphaely. This will be followed by a panel discussion where Carolyn will be joined by relatives and descendants of refugees. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nCarolyn Raphaely’s career spans roles as Associate Editor of the Financial Mail\, Features Editor of Finance Week and Johannesburg Bureau Chief of Cosmopolitan. For ten years she was a Senior Journalist with the Wits Justice Project\, investigating torture behind bars and wrongful convictions\, and assisted five wrongfully convicted men whose murder convictions were overturned by the Constitutional Court. She was named Webber Wentzel Legal Journalist of the Year and received an Honourable Mention for the World Justice Forum’s Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/before-the-door-closed-rescue-refuge-and-family-memory/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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