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Gideon Shimoni
b. 1937
Gideon Shimoni, a professor of Judaism and Zionist history, was born in South Africa and taught at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Contemporary Jewry, where he held the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel–Diaspora Relations.
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South African Jews and the Apartheid Crisis
The widespread eruptions of unrest in South Africa in the 1980s have focused attention on various aspects of that society, including its small but influential Jewish community. That community occupies…