This issue is largely devoted to South African Jewry, and what its members have accomplished, or are accomplishing. It kicks off with an erudite, engaging and in fact long-overdue overview of the influential role that Jews have played in the South African newspaper industry, from the very beginnings of the independent press in Cape Town in the 1820s onwards. Written by the distinguished journalist and editor Irwin Manoim, co-founder of the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian), it features many eminent figures in the annals of local journalism, amongst them Joel Mervis, Benjamin Pogrund and Johnny Johnson.