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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.

Cameroon

Yaphet
Kotto, actor (Cameroonian father)

DR Congo

Olivier
Strelli, fashion designer

Ethiopia

Alebachew
Teka, comedian and show-master

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

Harry Bloom,
anti-apartheid activist

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

List of
Jews

List of
Black Jews

List
of South Africans

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