What's new on the website
As there are hundreds of pages and well over 5,000 images, documents and videos on this website – this page will summarise “what’s new” so that you can keep track of material being added.
Please remember to use the word search bars at the top of each page and the separate searches within the cemetery records as well as the full drop down menus.
June 10th 2024 – restored page on the story of Manicaland Jews
April 24th 2024 – restored page of World War II listings.
March 28th – Kwe Kwe Cemetery added to the site.
March 26th 2024 – additional pages added to Midlands communities and many additional family biographies.
March 12th 2024 – more material added to the main Zambia menu with thanks to Aviva Ron, Mervyn Blumberg and Mark Abrams.
March 3rd 2024 – extensive additions to the Zambia Cemetery page.
Feb 23rd 2024 – a new page on Copperbelt businesses and families added.
Feb 20th 2024 – the ZJC guestbook facility has been reinstated.
Feb 17th 2024 – updated page of ZCJ community recipe books added.
Feb 11th 2004 – new pages for the Mutare Jewish Cemetery
and the Penhalonga Jewish Cemetery
March 3rd 2024 – extensive additions to the Zambia Cemetery page.
Feb 23rd 2024 – a new page on Copperbelt businesses and families added.
Feb 20th 2024 – the ZJC guestbook facility has been reinstated.
Feb 17th 2024 – updated page of ZCJ community recipe books added.
Feb 11th 2004 – new pages for the Mutare Jewish Cemetery
and the Penhalonga Jewish Cemetery
Feb 6th 2024 – additional pages with video interviews and short biographies.
Feb 4th 2024 – a page on Professor Michael Gelfand
Sept 3rd 2023 – a page of ZCJ community cookbooks added.
July 6th 2023 – a new page on Zvishavane (Shabani) including 7 Jewish graves
May 2nd 2023 – images from ZJC congresses in the 1980s and 1990s.
Feb 15th 2023 – list of Jewish businesses in Harare from FB thread.
Jan 31st 2023 – list of Jewish businesses in Bulawayo from FB thread.
Jan 26th 2023 – Commemoration of Rhodes/COS community
Jan 18th – update to page on Livingstone with article on Jewish Wedding
Jan 10th 2023 – Page showing video clip of opening Samuel Leon Sephardi Hebrew School.
Dec 14th 2022 – copies of the Jewish Guild Journal 1919-1938
Dec 8th 2022 – new family biography submission form
Dec 7th 2022- ZJC blog added back to the site.
Dec 7th 2022- ZJC blog added back to the site.
Nov 27th 2022 – listing of Jewish Servicemen in World War II
Nov 21 2022 – restored pages with maps of Jewish Homes in Bulawayo and Harare.
Nov 10 2022 – new family profiles
Oct 6 2022 – Zambian Medical School
Oct 6 2022 – updated Harare Hebrew Congregation
Sept 29 2022 – updated family pages
Sept 25 2022 – Zambian cemeteries
Sept 18 2022 A new page on Betar
Sept 16 2022 – Early Days of Broken Hill
Sept 12 2002 – new photo galleries