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The Dilemma of South African Jewry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Robert G. Weisbord
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In September 1966, possibly for the first time in history, large numbers of Jews paid homage to a man with a notorious anti-Semitic past—Dr Hendrik F. Verwoerd, the late Prime Minister of South Africa, assassinated while he sat in his parliamentary seat. London's Jewish Chronicle reported that in Johannesburg overflow crowds attended memorial services in the city's Great Synagogue and Temple Israel. Verwoerd was eulogised by a rabbi as ‘one of the greatest Prime Ministers, if not the greatest’ that South Africa had ever had; and in Cape Town, the chief rabbi stated that Verwoerd had been the first man to give apartheid a ‘moral basis’1

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , September 1967 , pp. 233 - 241
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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