Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy SA-SIG
Lists and Directories
Editor: Dr Saul Issroff
Copyright © 2003-2024 Saul Issroff, Mike Getz, SAfrica SIG
and Jewishgen Inc.
URL: http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/index-l&d.htm
Updated: 18 August 2024
The names of several of the sections listed below, e.g. Bibliography and Communities, were formerly prefixed with "South African Jewish."
- Associations & Societies
- Bibliography
- History and genealogy books listed alphabetically by title.
- An essay by Prof. Joseph Sherman on South African Literature in Yiddish and Hebrew.
- A list of Jewish newspapers.
- Cemeteries
- Includes a table of details of gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Maputo, Moçambique, compiled by John Miller. Photographs are due soon.
- Communities
- Recent additions include a link to an interview with Woolf Zasman, originally from Shmanz or Symanski (Simonys) Lithuania, immigrated to South Africa in the early 1900s, where he was one of the founding members of the synagogue in King William's Town.
- Formal South African Sources
- Burials and Cemeteries
- Census Records
- Great Britain Emigration Records
- Home Affairs, Department of
- Naturalisation Records
- Shipping & Passenger Records
- Sources - archives
- Supreme Court, Master of the
- Genealogical conferences
- Genealogical Institute of South Africa (GISA)
- Contact details for the various branches of the GISA.
- General Sources
- Archive Depots,
- Genealogical Societies,
- General Libraries & Museums,
- General Resources in South Africa,
- Jewish-Interest Museums & Libraries,
- Jewish Resources,
- Libraries,
- Military Records,
- Museums,
- Newspaper Resources.
- Jewish Genealogical Societies in South Africa
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (JGSBG)
LINK TO EXTERNAL WEB-SITE
- Jewish Marriages
- Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
- Launched in early 1995, JRI-Poland is the largest fully searchable database of indexes to Jewish vital records accessible online. Five million records from more than 550 Polish towns are now indexed. More are being added every few months.
- Miscellaneous Records
- SA Defence Force Archives,
- Military Cemeteries,
- Military Service Particulars,
- Commercial Company Records,
- Land Records.
- Mormon Family History Centres
- Family History Centres in South Africa,
- Mormon FHL resources,
- Obtaining Mormon FHL microfilm.
- National Archives of South Africa
- A link to fourteen on-line databases.
NAAIRS: National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System
NARS: National Archives and Records Service
NASA: National Archives of South Africa
- Newsgroup Archive and search engine
- The JewishGen searchable on-line archive.
- Newsletters & Journals
- Southern Africa genealogical periodicals
- Prenumeranten
- These books of subscriber lists number in the many thousands. They contain personal names, towns, and dates. The only known example of a South African prenumeranten list is shown here.
- Rabbis and Cantors
- Some rabbis and cantors who have served South African congregations.
- Resource Guide for South African genealogical research (PDF)
- A collection of useful resources.
- Schools and educational establishments
- We are collecting material for this page. A few leading schools are listed. Please offer a name or two. Thanks. R.H.
- Ships and Shipping Companies
- London and Southampton (a.k.a. Soton) were ports along the shipping routes which led from Europe to South Africa a century and more ago.
- South African births
- Statistical details of some South African Jewish births.
- South African Government Information
- Main: http://www.info.gov.za/
Genealogy: http://www.info.gov.za/faq/genealogy.htm
- South African Jewish Board Of Deputies' Holdings
- in the Central Archives For The History Of The Jewish People (CAHJP), Jerusalem, Israel. By Ann Rabinowitz.
- South African Jewish database [ON THE JEWISHGEN WEB-SITE]
- Compiled by Ann Rabinowitz from the entries contained in the "Who's Who Section" of the 1929 and 1945 editions of the South African Jewish Year Book.
- South African Jewish Diaspora
- We know where we came from. We're collecting information about where we have gone. Do you have something to contribute? Please contact Dr Saul Issroff
- South African Jewry, 1967-68
- The book, South African Jewry, 1967-68 Edition, was edited by Leon Feldberg and published by Feldhill Publishing Co, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1968. The book is a survey of the Jewish community, its contributions to South Africa, and includes a directory of communal institutions as well as a who's who of leading personalities in the community at that time. This book provides an invaluable snapshot – forever frozen in time – of South African Jewry and its immense contribution to South African life in the late 1960s. As noted in Feldberg's introduction, the longer articles in the book are "contributions to South African Jewish historiography".
Jeremy Hodes, of New South Wales, Australia, has created a web site that includes 2425 biographies and several longer articles drawn from the material in the book. Every word in the biographies and articles is searchable through the search box on Jeremy's web page. The search capability is useful for finding information about locations, spouses, employment, etc. One can use the page itself, the name labels at the right, or the search box to find the information you are seeking.
Jeremy's project was completed in memory of his father, Lionel Harris Hodes, the General Secretary of the South African Zionist Federation from 1969-1973, for his communal service and contributions to South African Jewry. Jeremy can be reached at jeremy2929@gmail.com.
- Southern African Sub-continent
- Angola,
- Botswana (previously Basutoland),
- Cabo Verde (Cape Vert or Cape Verde),
- Kenya,
- Madeira,
- Mauritius,
- Mozambique,
- Namibia (previously German South West Africa, South West Africa),
- South East Africa,
- Swaziland,
- Zaire,
- Zambia (previously Northern Rhodesia),
- Zimbabwe (previously Southern Rhodesia).
- Synagogues in Southern Africa
- Includes a photograph of the stone-laying at the De Aar Shul and new items about the Constitution Street, Vredehoek, Strand, Koffiefontein and Benoni Hebrew congregations.
- World-Wide Web
- Web-site and e-mail addresses,
- genealogical newsgroups (discussion groups),
- telephone directories,
- name-finders.
- Youth Movements
- Habonim Afikim, Habonim Elizabethville, Machon Le'madrichei Chutz Le-Aretz,
S.A. Zionist Youth Movement.
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