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.

Cameroon Yaphet Kotto, actor (Cameroonian father)

DR Congo Léon Kengo wa Dondo, Prime Minister of Zaire (Polish-Jewish father)Gérard Prunier, The Rwanda crisis: history of a genocide, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, London, 1995, p. 319 n16 Moïse Katumbi, businessman and politician (Greek-Jewish father) Olivier Strelli, fashion designer

Ethiopia and Eritrea

Ephraim Isaac, Phd Princeton Scholar Adisu Massala, politician Esti Mamo, Ethiopian-Israeli model Meskie Shibru-Sivan, actress and singer

Kenya Israel Somen, businessman and diplomat Jonathan Somen, entrepreneur Erica Mann, architect, town planner, NGO leader, women's cooperatives developer Igor Mann, veterinarian, senior civil service professional

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)

Namibia Harold Pupkewitz, entrepreneur ( Lithuanian born)

South Africa

Politicians and activists

Morris Alexander (1877–1946), pre-apartheid MP 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. Arthur Chaskalson, chief justice Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (South African-born) Andrew Feinstein, former ANC MP, author & anti-arms trade activist Bram Fischer, anti-apartheid activist 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

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.

Academics Abraham Manie Adelstein, UK Chief Medical StatisticianOxford Dictionary of National Biography Selig Percy Amoils, Inventor & SurgeonAmerican Jewish Year Book, 1983, p.271 Accessed 16 Nov 2006 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, economistHayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek - Pg 145 Arnold Lazarus, psychologist Roland Levinsky,"Driving force of city university's growth": Western Daily Press 19 July 2006: "the family is Jewish". 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) Joseph Sonnabend, HIV/AIDS researcher 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

Cultural figures Lionel Abrahams, poet Jillian Becker, writer Dani Behr, TV presenter Harry Bloom, writer and lecturer Johnny Clegg, World Beat musician John Cranko, choreographer Adam Friedland, comedian and podcaster 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

Business and professional figures Raymond Ackerman, supermarket tycoon Alfred Beit, diamond magnate Donald Gordon, founder of insurance company Liberty Life, shopping centre owner & philanthropist Sydney Jacobson, newspaper editorOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple" Solomon Joel, financierOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "a devout Jew" 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. Walter Matulis JR. Co owner of a driver training business. Walter was raised as Roman Catholic only to find out in the 6th decade of his life that his ancestors were Lithuanian Jews. Walter remains a Christian while identifying himself as being of Jewish blood.

Sports figures Ali & Adam Bacher, cricketers Leo Camron, rugby union player and cricketer. Okey Geffin, rugby union player Harry Isaacs, Olympic boxing medalist Ilana Kloss, tennis player Sarah Poewe, swimmer Philip Rabinowitz (runner), 100-year-old sprinter Jeremy Reingold, World Champion Swimmer, Rugby Player Jody Scheckter, Formula 1 driver Shaun Tomson, surfer Mandy Yachad, cricketer

Rugby union Max Baise, South African rugby union referee. Louis Babrow Leo Camron, South African who helped introduce rugby to Israel.,Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ) p68 also a cricketer Okey Geffin, South African Rugby Union playerEncyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition, volume 19, p146 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

Uganda Gershom Sizomu, rabbi and Member of Parliament

Zambia Denise Scott Brown, architect Stanley Fischer, IMF economist

Zimbabwe Norman Geras, professor of Government Anthony Gubbay, former chief justice Laurence Levy, pioneering neurosurgeon Alexander Pines, chemist Roy Welensky, prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

See also African Jews List of Jews List of African-American Jews List of South Africans Category:Black Jewish people

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