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List of African Jews
There are a small number of Black African groups that practice Judaism, the most prominent of which are the Beta Israel of Ethiopia. However, the vast majority of Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa live in South Africa, and are of Ashkenazi (largely Lithuanian) origin. Small post-colonial communities exist elsewhere. Here is a list of some prominent Sub-Saharan African Jews, arranged by country of origin.
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Cameroon
- Yaphet Kotto, actor (Cameroonian father)
DR Congo
- Olivier Strelli , fashion designer
Mali
- Marvin Pontiac , R&B singer (Jewish mother)
Mozambique
- Albie Sachs , ANC activist (lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa)
- Ruth First, ANC activist (lived in Mozambique during exile from South Africa)
South Africa
Politicians and activists
- Arthur Chaskalson, chief justice
- Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (South African-born)
- Richard Goldstone, judge and international war crimes prosecutor
- Joel Joffe , human rights activist
- Tony Leon, opposition leader
- Joe Slovo, ANC activist
- Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid MP
Other Jewish ANC activists included Ruth First, Albie Sachs and five of the six whites arrested in the Rivonia Trial: Denis Goldberg , Lionel Bernstein , Arthur Goldreich, James Kantor and Harold Wolpe .
Academics
- Sydney Brenner, biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)
- Max Gluckman, anthropologist
- Aaron Klug, chemist, Nobel Prize (1982)
- Ludwig Lachmann, economist
- Arnold Lazarus , psychologist
- Seymour Papert, Artificial Intelligence pioneer
- Phillip V. Tobias , palaeoanthropologist
- Joseph Wolpe, psychotherapist
- Lewis Wolpert , developmental biologist
Cultural figures
- Dani Behr, tv presenter
- Harry Bloom , writer & anti-apartheid activist (stepfather of Orlando Bloom)
- Johnny Clegg, World Beat musician
- John Cranko , choreographer
- David Goldblatt , photographer
- Nadine Gordimer, writer, Nobel Prize (1991)
- Laurence Harvey, actor
- Ronald Harwood, playwright
- Manu Herbstein, writer
- Dan Jacobson , writer
- Sid James, comic actor
- Danny K , pop singer
- Manfred Mann, R&B keyboardist
- Sarah Millin , writer
- Trevor Rabin, guitarist & film composer
- Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro), political cartoonist
- Anthony Sher, stage actor
- Janet Suzman, stage actress
Business figures
- Barney Barnato, diamond magnate
- Donald Gordon , shopping centre owner & philanthropist
- Sol Kerzner, hotel & casino owner
- Ernest & Harry Oppenheimer, diamond tycoons & philanthropists (Harry converted to Christianity)
Sports figures
- Ali & Adam Bacher , cricketers
- Okey Geffin , rugby player
- Ilana Kloss , tennis player
- Peter Lindenberg , powerboat racer (uconfirmed)
- Syd Nomis , rugby player
- Sarah Poewe , swimmer
- Philip Rabinowitz, 100-year-old sprinter
- Wilf Rosenberg , rugby player
- Jody Scheckter, Formula 1 driver
- Joel Stransky, rugby player
- Shaun Tomson , surfer
Zambia
- Denise Scott Brown , architect
- Stanley Fischer, IMF economist
Zimbabwe
- Anthony Gubbay , former chief justice
- Alexander Pines , chemist
See also
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