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.
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.
Selma Browde, physician, anti-apartheid activist, former Councilwoman - Johanessburg City Council, AIDS activist.
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
Robin Philip Cranko, Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist
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.
Abraham Manie Adelstein, UK Chief Medical Statistician
Selig Percy Amoils, Inventor & Surgeon
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
Aaron Klug, chemist, Nobel Prize (1982)
Ludwig Lachmann, economist
Arnold Lazarus, psychologist
Roland Levinsky, 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
Lionel Abrahams, poet
Jillian Becker, writer
Dani Behr, TV presenter
Harry Bloom, writer and lecturer
Eddie Kramer, recording engineer and producer
Lisa Chait, radio presenter
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
Raymond Ackerman, supermarket tycoon
Alfred Beit, diamond magnate
Donald Gordon, founder of insurance company Liberty Life, shopping centre owner & philanthropist
Sydney Jacobson, newspaper editor
Solomon Joel, financier
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.
Ali & Adam Bacher, cricketers
Leo Camron, rugby union player and cricketer.
Okey Geffin, rugby union player
Ilana Kloss, tennis player
Peter Lindenberg, powerboat racer (uconfirmed)
Sarah Poewe, swimmer
Philip Rabinowitz (runner), 100-year-old sprinter
Jody Scheckter, Formula 1 driver
Shaun Tomson, surfer
Mandy Yachad, cricketer
Max Baise, South African rugby union referee.
Louis Babrow
Leo Camron, South African who helped introduce rugby to Israel., also a cricketer
Okey Geffin, South African Rugby Union player
Joe Kaminer
Jonathan Kaplan, South African who holds the world record for refereeing the highest number of international rugby union test matches.
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
Denise Scott Brown, architect
Stanley Fischer, IMF economist
Norman Geras [1], professor of Government
Anthony Gubbay, former chief justice
Alexander Pines, chemist
Roy Welensky, prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
List of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
