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This is a list of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa . It is arranged by country of origin. The vast majority of African Jews inhabiting areas below the Sahara live in South Africa , and are mainly of Ashkenazi (largely Lithuanian ) origin. A number of Beta Israel also reside in Ethiopia . Additionally, small post-colonial communities exist elsewhere.
Cameroon
DR Congo
Eritrea
Ethiopia
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
Hilda Bernstein , anti-apartheid activist
Lionel Bernstein , anti-apartheid activist
Harry Bloom , anti-apartheid activist
Jules Browde , barrister, jurist and anti-apartheid activist. Law school classmate of Nelson Mandela.
Arthur Chaskalson , chief justice
Abba Eban , Israeli diplomat (South African-born)
Bernard Friedman , anti-apartheid MP
Richard Goldstone , judge and international war crimes prosecutor
Joel Joffe , human rights activist
Ronnie Kasrils , former South African Intelligence Minister
Tony Leon , former opposition leader
Joe Slovo , ANC activist and leader of the South African Communist Party
Harry Schwarz , anti-apartheid politician, lawyer and diplomat
Helen Suzman , anti-apartheid MP
Harold Hanson , QC and strong supporter of civil liberties
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 , Harold Wolpe and Gaby Shapiro.
Academics
Abraham Manie Adelstein , UK Chief Medical Statistician[1]
Selig Percy Amoils , Inventor & Surgeon[2]
Moses Blackman , crystallographer
Sydney Brenner , biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)
Leo Camron , educationalist
Sydney Cohen , pathologist (Jewish Year Book , 2005, p214, 230)
Meyer Fortes , anthropologist
Max Gluckman , anthropologist
Frank Herbstein, crystallographer, 1926-2011[3]
Aaron Klug , chemist, Nobel Prize (1982)
Ludwig Lachmann , economist[4]
Arnold Lazarus , psychologist
Roland Levinsky ,[5] biologist
Stanley Mandelstam , physicist (Jewish Year Book 2005 p214)
Shula Marks , historian (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
Frank Nabarro , physicist (Jewish Year Book 2005 p214)
Seymour Papert , Artificial Intelligence pioneer
Peter Sarnak , mathematician
Isaac Schapera , anthropologist (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
Anthony Segal , biochemist (Jewish Year Book 2005 p214)
Phillip V. Tobias , palaeoanthropologist
Joseph Wolpe , psychotherapist
Lewis Wolpert , developmental biologist
Basil Yamey , economist (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215,315)
Solly Zuckerman , UK zoologist
Max Price , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town
Cultural figures
Lionel Abrahams , poet
Jillian Becker , writer
Dani Behr , TV presenter
Harry Bloom , writer and lecturer
Eddie Kramer , recording engineer and producer
Johnny Clegg , World Beat musician
John Cranko , choreographer
Graeme Friedman , writer
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
William Kentridge , artist
Lennie Lee , artist
Manfred Mann (Manfred Lubowitz), R&B keyboardist
Sarah Millin , writer
Trevor Rabin , guitarist & film composer
Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro), political cartoonist
Antony Sher , stage actor
Janet Suzman , stage actress
Business and professional figures
Raymond Ackerman , supermarket tycoon
Alfred Beit , diamond magnate
Donald Gordon , founder of insurance company Liberty Life , shopping centre owner & philanthropist
Sydney Jacobson , newspaper editor[6]
Solomon Joel , financier[7]
Sol Kerzner , hotel & casino owner
Sammy Marks , early entrepreneur from Pretoria
Ernest & Harry Oppenheimer , diamond tycoons & philanthropists (Harry converted to Christianity)
Percy Yutar , South Africa's first Jewish attorney general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial .[8]
Walter Matulis JR. Co owner of a driver training business. Walter was raised as Roman Catholic only to find out in the 6th decade of his life that his anscestors were Lithuanian Jews. Walter remains a Christian while identifying himself as being of Jewish blood.

Sports figures
Rugby union
Max Baise , South African rugby union referee.[9]
Louis Babrow
Leo Camron , South African who helped introduce rugby to Israel.,[10] also a cricketer
Okey Geffin , South African Rugby Union player[11]
Joe Kaminer
Jonathan Kaplan , South African who holds the world record for refereeing the highest number of international rugby union test matches.[9]
Alan Menter , South African Rugby Union Player
Cecil Moss , South African rugby union player and coach
Sydney Nomis , South African Rugby Union player
Wilf Rosenberg , rugby union player
Fred Smollan
Joel Stransky , South African rugby union player
Morris Zimmerman
Zambia
Zimbabwe
See also
References
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ American Jewish Year Book, 1983, p.271 Accessed 16 Nov 2006
^ "Frank H. Herbstein (1926-2011)" . Acta Crystallogr B . 67 : 266–267. 2011. doi :10.1107/S0108768111017599 . Retrieved 1 May 2013 .
^ Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek - Pg 145
^ "Driving force of city university's growth": Western Daily Press 19 July 2006: "the family is Jewish".
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography : "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography : "a devout Jew"
^ "Percy Yutar" . Edinburgh: The Scotsman . 23 July 2002. Archived from the original on December 10, 2006.
^ a b "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2010-06-26 . CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )
^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1 ) p68
^ Encyclopaedia Judaica , Second Edition, volume 19, p146
^ "Marxism, the Holocaust and September 11: An Interview with Norman Geras" . eis.bris.ac.uk . 2002.