This page includes a selection of online (mainly via zoom) presentations on the history of the ZJC and of this website. Many personal interviews were also filmed on camera and then uploaded to YouTube.
To view a full list of over 80 video clips on the subject – please visit this YouTube Channel
Janice Benatar, who was born in the capital city of Harare, shares her knowledge and personal experience about the Jewish community of Zimbabwe (then the British colony of Rhodesia) during an extraordinarily tumultuous time.
Ghita Wolpowitz, with the family background of a Litvak (Lithuanian Jews) who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), discusses the origin and evolution of the Jewish community in her hometown of Bulawayo. She touches on the Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation, the various youth movements to which she and her peers belonged, and the Jewish elderly home which her parents helped to establish and which closed a few years ago after remaining one of the last Jewish community institutions in Zimbabwe.
In May 1962 this Sephardi Hebrew School was opened. The original 8 mm film was digitized by Isaac Menashe. The editing of the film was done by Dave Bloom and Isaac Menashe.
Michael Galaun, President of the Zambian Jewish Council speaks at at the Inauguration of the Zambian Jewish Community Public Health Wing and Exchange Program at the School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University May 14th 2015 (apologies for the problems of the film’s focus – camera was playing up).
The ZJC has a YouTube channel including many cameo interviews with current and former members of the Zimbabwe Jewish Community. These have been recorded over the last approximately 20 years by Dave Bloom.
The 10 mins audio clip below was created by Google Notebook AI and is sourced from the books by Rosenthal and Kosmin. The content and interpretation are entirely done by AI and this website is not responsible in any for its content. It is merely provided here as an experiment in converting large textual documents to more accessible audio files. It covers the books on Rhodesian/Zimbabwe Jewish Communities in the form of a podcast.