BC 1180 JEWS ON THE TIP OF AFRICA: PHOTO-ESSAY BY KARINA TUROK

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Seven photographs by Karina Turok of some of the Jews of Cape Town.  These formed part of her final year's work as a BA Fine Arts student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.  She was awarded the 1986 Michaelis Prize for this work.

At the Upsherinish ceremony of the son of Lubavitch Rabbi, Mendel Popack.

Rabbi Maisels with a Barmitzvah boy at the Camps Bay Synagogue.

Gaby Shapiro and her daughter, Yvonne.  Gaby Shapiro was detained during the 1986 State of Emergency for seven weeks in Pollsmoor Prison.  Her daughter, Yvonne, was detained for six weeks during the 1985 State of Emergency.

Rabbi Selwyn Frankel conferring with a refugee at the Jewish Relief Centre in Crossroads.

Cantor Immerman.

Batmitzvah girls at the Gardens Synagogue.

World War II veterans at the Yom Hashoa Remembrance Day.

LH 29.09.2001