MUSEUM EVENTS
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EXHIBITION WALKABOUTS
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Wednesday 27 May at 10am
Wednesday 17 June at 10am
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PRICE: R200/person
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The SA Jewish Museum is exceptionally proud to present our premier summer exhibition. Wolf Kibel Lippy Lipshitz, Palm Studios is a major retrospective that brings together the work of two seminal South African Jewish artists.​
LECTURE
WHERE TO FOR THE JEWS?
by Professor Adam Mendelsohn
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Wednesday, 29 April | 5.30pm​​​​
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Historians make poor prophets. Richard Evans warned that it “is always a mistake for a historian to try to predict the future. Life, unlike science, is simply too full of surprises.” Yet at a moment of profound (and unforeseen) crisis in the Jewish world there is new urgency in interpreting the present and divining the future. Drawing on decades of data collected by the Kaplan Centre, this talk will place the tumultuous present in historical perspective –
demographic and religious trends, political alignments, patterns of prejudice – to assess the direction of Jewish life in South Africa.​
BOOK LAUNCH
THE BOY IN THE BARREL
by Eric Lieberman
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Wednesday, 13 May | 6pm​​​​
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Based on the true story of one little boy's journey of survival, forgiveness and finding home. Deeply moving, inspiring and unforgettable​.
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​Vilna, 1889. Eight-year-old Izzy Lieberman leaves his snow-covered homeland with only his father, escaping the pogroms and bound for a new life at the edge of the world - Cape Town, South Africa. But amid the chaos of the port, as tensions rise in the days before the Anglo-Boer War, Izzy’s father vanishes. In the confusion, Izzy is left behind - forgotten, frightened, and convinced he has been farfolen - thrown away.
TALK
LOOKING INTO KIBEL
by Anna Tietze
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Thursday, 14 May | 11am​​​​
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Drawing on her longstanding research into early twentieth century South African art, Tietze will offer a focused reflection on the work of Wolf Kibel (1903–1938), exploring the psychological and spiritual dimensions that shape his visual language. Her lecture considers Kibel’s practice not only in formal terms, but as an expression of inner life, shaped by displacement, introspection, and artistic exchange.