Souvenir of the Refugee Festival Services, Good Hope Hall, Cape Town

(SOUTH AFRICA)

Cape Town

1900

Inscribed, dated and signed by Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz

“At the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in October, 1899, the vast majority of the Jewish population of Transvaal were expelled by the Boer authorities, and large numbers took refuge in Cape Town. In September 1900, these refugees ...arranged for services during the High Festivals in the Good Hope Hall, Capetown...The following pages are published in commemoration of that eventful year of trial and distress.” Contains “A New Year Address and Kol Nidre Sermon” by Joseph H. Hertz, then Rabbi of Johannesburg and later Chief Rabbi of the British Empire