Introduction / Milton Shain and Richard Mendelsohn -- Growing up Jewish / Dan Jacobson -- Between ideology and indifference : the destruction of Yiddish in South Africa / Joseph Sherman -- The Boer War, the Great War, and the shaping of South African Jewish loyalties / Richard Mendelsohn.

Insiders on outsiders : some South African Jewish writers / Marcia Leveson -- 'If it was so good, why was it so bad?' : the memories and realities of antisemitism in South Africa, past and present / Milton Shain -- Beyond the pale : Jewish immigration and the South African left / James T. Campbell -- Accounting for Jewish radicals in apartheid South Africa / Gideon Shimoni -- The road to Rivonia : Jewish radicals and the cost of conscience in white South Africa / Glenn Frankel -- Jews and the open society / Dennis Davis.