#George Shamma

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Elevate Your Well-Being: The Power of a Nourishing Diet

Elevate Your Well-Being with a Good Diet! Nourishing your body is a daily act of self-love. A good diet isn't about restrictions; it's about fueling your body with the nutrients it craves. Embrace a rainbow of fruits, veggies, lean proteins, and whole grains for a balanced and energized life. Hydrate, savor mindful bites, and let the goodness of wholesome foods be your guide to vitality. Remember, a good diet isn't a destination; it's a journey towards a healthier, happier you! Consult George Shamma for healthy welbeing of your family.

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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books 🍉

🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜

🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha 🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham 🍉 Birthright by George Abraham 🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad 🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman

🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy 🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi 🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro 🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As 🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya 🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou 🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers 🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad

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Palestine Book List:

Children's and Young Adult:

Baba, What Does My Name Mean?: A Journey to Palestine by Rifk Ebeid, Lamaa Jawhari

Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Story of Childhood Memories by Wafa Shami, Shaima Faouki

These Olive Trees by Aya Ghanameh

Farah Rocks series bu Susan Muaddi Darraj, Ruaida Mannaa

Squire by Nadia Shammas, Sara Alfageeh

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation by Annemarie Young, Anthony Robinson Jr

The Boy and the Wall by Amahi Bishara

Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine by Refaat Alareer

Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq

Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar

We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition by Reem Kassis, Noah Eilouti

Zain and Mima Stand for Palestine by Eman Kourtam, Sophia Soliman, Darah Rateb

Adults Nonfiction:

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadesh

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim et al.

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis, Cornel West

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, Frank Barat

Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color by Michael R. Fischbach

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia

Adult Fiction and Poetry:

Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh

From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman

Blood Orange by Yaffa As

The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham

To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha

Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi

Hijra by Hala Alyan

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Guapa by Saleem Haddad

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Episode 176 - Fantasy

This episode we’re talking about the genre of Fantasy! We discuss whether fantasy needs magic, clam powers, forklore, Tears of the Kingdom, worksonas, It’s Always My First Day at Wizard School, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse

Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras, translated by Rhonda Mullins

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, narrated by Kirt Graves

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Chill by Scott Carson

Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Big Machine by Victor LaValle

Other Media We Mentioned

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Wikipedia)

Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini (Wikipedia)

Read it online free!

Steven Universe (Wikipedia)

Sailor Moon (Wikipedia)

Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Golden Compass / Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Redwall (Wikipedia) Brian Jacques

The Discworld Mapp: Being the Onlie True and Mostlie Accurate Mappe of the Fantastyk and Magical Dyscworlde by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs

Discworld (Wikipedia)

The Chronicles of Narnia (Wikipedia) by C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Wise Child by Monica Furlong

Juniper by Monica Furlong

The Sandman (comic book) (Wikipedia)

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wikipedia)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)

Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)

A Song of Ice and Fire (Wikipedia) by George R. R. Martin

The series of novels on which the television series Game of Thrones is based

The Wheel of Time (Wikipedia) by Robert Jordan

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games by Lizzie Stark

Links, Articles, and Things

X-Men (Wikipedia)

Scarlet Witch

Magik (Illyana Rasputina) (though her magic powers are separate from her mutation)

Magical girl (Wikipedia)

Alebrije (Wikipedia)

Dungeons & Dragons (Wikipedia)

Independence Day (1996 film) (Wikipedia)

30 Fantasy fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Road of the Lost by Nafiza Azad

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair

A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai 

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Björkan Sagas by Harold R. Johnson

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 20th we’re talking about celebrity book clubs and one book reading campaigns!

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MY MEMORIES OF JOHANNESBURG - City of GOLD.

article published 4 Feb 2009. Written and compiled by Anne Lapedus Brest.

MEMORIES OF JOHANNESBURG,   CITY OF GOLD

Written and Compiled By

©  ANNE LAPEDUS BREST

On the 4th February 1961, when I was 14 years old,  and my brother Robert was 11, our family came to live in Johannesburg.  

 We had left Ireland, land of our birth, leaving behind our beloved Grandparents, family, friends, and a very special and  never-to-be-forgotten little furry friend,  to start a new life in South Africa, land of Sunshine and Golden opportunity…………… The Goldeneh Medina…...

We came out on the “Edinburgh Castle”, arriving  Cape Town 2nd Feb 1961.  We did a day tour of Chapmans Peak Drive,   Muizenberg,  went to somewhere called the “Red Sails”  and visited our Sakinofsky/Yodaiken family in Tamboerskloof.

 We arrived at Park Station (4th Feb 1961), Jhb,  hot and dishevelled after a nightmarish train ride, breaking down in De Aar and dying of heat.

 We lived in Becker Street, Yeoville, Robert went to K.E.S and I went to Barnato Park (aka Johannesburg Girls’ High) in Berea.  Robert was in Cadets , I played hockey, and bunked school (with Gilda Goldblatt!!)  Our next-door neighbours were Michael and Sandra Golding,  Zena and Teddy Cohen lived in Becker Street also and Ronnie and Nigel Baskin lived in Yeo Street near the Richters -  Selma and Charles Richter,.

 Girls at Barnato Park lived in mainly Hillbrow,  Berea, Yeoville, Bellevue,  Houghton, Orchards, Melrose and Dunkeld.  After school, many of us would catch the 19 bus from Tudhope Avenue  Berea to Raleigh Street, Yeoville, but many girls were collected by beautifully coiffed and bee-hived mothers with long painted nails, arriving to collect them in huge fancy Chevrolets, with  big cats’ eye tail-lights.

 ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ……………………………. 

Oy, but I had to get used to so many new expressions ……..

“ See you this arvy, Hey? “  and ��  “See you just now, Annie”    (I learnt the hard way that “Just Now” didn’t mean immediately)

 “There’s the new girl in Form 3, ……..  Shame!!”    “My sister’s baby is so cute, ……  Shame!  

 People would give me directions and tell me to turn at the robot.

 Can I  Lend  your book?

 Whatever I said, the girls would answer “Is it” ?

 The shul is full of KUGELS……………….

 Why did the bus-conductor call us all  “Donkey”  when he collected our tickets????   “Thank you,… Donkey” and the Klippies would say it in a high-pitched voice. “Thank you, donkeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy”

 You MUST come visit this arvy,   see?     You MUST go and see Cliff Richard at the Collosseum.  You MUST buy the latest Elvis Presley record.     MUST,   MUST,   MUST   (only in South Africa!  Say that “MUST” to people overseas, they think you are a control-freak).  (took me a while to get used to it!!)    

G.C. EMMMMM 

Girls would talk about great talent at a party, and they talked about Chracks , boys talked about  “good stock” .

It’s a blerry gemors!!         Stoep.      Goeie Môre ,    Lekker Bly,      

My skat.     Klop Dissel Boom gaan!      Klappies.      Lappies.    

 Wag ‘n bietjie.      I’m Gatvol !!!!    Deurmekaar.

Yislaaik!     Herrrrrrre  ! (Yurrah)       Magtig!!  …..Maggggggtigggggg  !!!       Vragtig!  …….Vragggggtigggggg !!!!!!   

Where’s the jol tonight, hey?   Do youse know?

 Don’t tune  me  kak, hey?     Ag! Yes  no  fine.     Stovies.    He’s fab - such a doll !!!,      He thinks he’s such a big Bok.      It’s not so lekker.      

 Howzzit, my China.     I smaak you.  

 Don’t chaaf my cherry, hey!     Don’t grip my cherry…

 Who do  you  think you’re  looking at,  China?    

 Don’t  tune me grief, ek sê.       Voetsak!        Sies!       Ag! Siestog, Jong!  

 My bike is buggered.  

 Bugger off !

 He donnered  her.

 She Bliksemed him

 They Revolting!  

 Sommer so …………………..

 Don’t talk to them, they are all such Rubbishes.

 Stiffies.

 It’s Kwaai……..

Well, yes , no fine, Those were the days my friend we thought they’d never end …...   

SUBURBS    

In those days a majority of the Jewish community seemed to be living in Hillbrow,  Berea,   Bellevue,  Yeoville  , Cyrildene,  Observatory,  Dewetshof, Judith’s Paarl,  Highlands North, Houghton,  Dunkeld,  Melrose, Hyde Park.

 Suburbs where a lot of Jews also  lived were Kensington,   Emmarentia,  Greenside, Doornfontein,   Mayfair.  Remember Fordsburg (Fitas). Also a Jewish area once upon a time.  

 Robert and I went to Yeoville Chader (The Bernard Patley), - Mr. SHATCHAN was the  headmaster, and teachers I remember were Miss AARONS (Bella Golubchick) , Mr. Solly GOLDBERG, Rev.  HIMMELSTEIN, and the             Shammas was a  Mr. CHAZEN (His daughters, Gertie and Hannah both went to Barnato park) and  Mrs. MAGID 

Chader Children I can remember the names of some of the “ Chader children”. Colin Koransky,     Dorian Hersch (Shear),    Terroll Hersch (Z”l),   Gilda Goldblatt (Galvad), Brenda Goldblatt (Spitz) (O”h)    Frances Taylor, and her older sister, Sharon (now in Israel),    Carmella Shapiro,     Marsha Furman,     Gerald Pokroy,     Philip Eliason,  Harry Sacks,     Alan Kaye,   Susan Kaye,   Dorothy Lewis,    Harry Sacks,   Philip Sacks,    Ada Freedman,     Ilanah Himmelstein,    Julian (Julie) Kaplan,  Meyer Kaplan,    Brian (now in Oz) and his sister Jewel Rosenthal,     Eugene Klatzko,     Martin Chaitowitz,   Hymie  Symanowitz(Z”l),    Ruth Seeff,     Sandra Katzen (Pokroy)     Robert Hershfield,     Mervyn Gerszt,     Bernard Kromelick, Derek Hammerschlag (I think that was his name)  Wolfie Tepper,   Marlene Tepper,   Stanley Chitiz,   Manny Magid,    Melanie & Beverley Segal.

 I must have been a real “chrack” in those days, coming from Ireland, funny clothes, and even funnier out-of-control curly hair, and an accent nobody could understand.  I found it hard to make friends, but I eventually palled up with Gilda Goldblatt (now Galvad) , (daughter of Leslie (Z”l) and Mona Voloshen Goldblatt (O”h),  from Webb Street.   Leslie (Z”l)  was a Choirester in Wolmarans Street Shul) and Gilda and I have remained friends to this day.

 Girls at Barnato Park whom I remember offhand,    Pam Ginsberg (Melzter)   Pam Gladstone (Nathan),  Denise Seeff,     Ruth Seeff,    Susan Simon,     Molly Robinson,    Rhona Shroder (aka Rhondie Shrondie)  (Ullman) ,    Phyliss Goldblatt (Rubin),   Geraldine Blumberg,  Debbie Rabinowitz,  Jacqui Hotz,  Sharon Rafel (Rubin),    Leah Smith,   Ann Kaiser,  Ann Moscow, Barbara Diane Levy,   Barbara Levy,    Lynette and Jennifer Margolis,   Carol and Margaret Kowalsky ,  Gloria (Gola) Levine (Ash),  Gilda and Brenda Goldblatt,   Eugene Klatzko, ,   René Mazelle,  Jill Gonski, Felicity Nathanson,   Avril Kaye,  Jackie Susman (Woolf) (her sisters Helen and Andy went to Athlone) .   Pam Kohn,   Lydia Burstein,   Ada Folb,   Sharon Cooperman (Fehrer)  Beryl Andrews,   Heather Round (Levy),  Joan Gracie, Merriel Pratt, Hilda and Charlotte Brinkman, Ann Mullins, Susan Simon, Doreen Simon, Marilyn Silansky, Carole Silansky (Sands) Verite Hirshowitz, Ruth Samuel (Segal),    Vivien Alexander,    Renée Kunz,   Lorraine Goldberg,    Marilyn Silansky and her sister Carol Silansky, ,   Yvonne  Shochet,  Janet King,  Pam Kewley,   Adah  Ben Yehuda,   Roslyn Abramovitz,  Joan Cooper,  Bernice Frid (Vunck),  Suzanne Lutrin (Resnick) (O”h),    Helen Rothschild,   Joyce Tischauer,   Helen Leftin,    Maureen Nagel (Ruskin),   Gabriella Albrecht,  Sharon Smith (Munitz),   Pam Levy,  Deborah-Ann Fanaroff,   Jacky Centner (Cannon),  Lydia Burstein, Ronelle Shepherd,  Cynthia Muller,  Marsha Sosnovick, (Jansen)    Karen Israelsohn,  Joan David (Elkon),   Sheina & BatSheva Romm,   Lorraine Nussbaum (Silver),   Susan Hommell,     Kela Saltzer , Barbara Beira,   Shoshanna Kaplan (Kaplan)  , Myrna Katz,  Isobel Strasbourg (Mehl) , Isobel Thomson, Vivienne Lee,  Meryl Michaelmore,  Vivienne Fritz, (Head Girl)     Patsy Coetzee, (Vice Head Girl)  Philla Moller, Gillian Coleman, Sheena Haarhof,  Glen Marshall, Naomi Tabachowich,   Ailsa Bowley, Sheena Hayworth, And  some girls from Mrs. Oppenheimers extra Afrikaans lessons class were, Vasiliky someone from Greece, Daria someone from Italy,  Jean Smith (?)  from Rhodesia, Jacqueline someone from England, Marilyn Patricia Myers from England,  and teachers, Miss Todd, Roberta Evans, Miss Cohen (later Mrs. Gevisser), Miss Miles with DOG - George, Miss Langley (head), Miss Rosewarne, Miss Walmsely ,  Miss Hodkin,  Miss Jones (Vice Head), Miss Horn, Miss Dankwerths, Miss Martin, (later Mrs. Gold), Mrs Morrison, and one or two Barnato Park Dogs, who came along to school with teachers.  I think Miss Evans had a little Muttie trouping along next to her?  

SCHOOLS     Athlone Girls , Athlone Boys,    Waverly girls,  Highland’s North,  Parktown Girls and Parktown Boys,    Northview, Greenside High,    King David Linksfield  (King David Victory Park was to follow later on)  Yeshiva College,     Rodean,     Brescia House,     St. Vincents  (for the hard of hearing).    Helpmekaar,     Damelin College,    Yale College (Marcus (Marky) Luntz) , Regis College,  Princeton College.      Yeoville Boys,   Observatory Girls, ,    Hyde Park,    The Tech.      K.E.S (King Edward School),    St. Johns,     Redhill,       St. Stithians,    Marist brothers,    Yeoville Convent,    Hirsch Lyons,    Yiddish folk,  Jeppe Boys, Jeppe Girls.   H.A  Jack,   Jewish Government.

 SCHOOL UNIFORMS. Mc Cullogh @ Bothwell.

Remember Yeoville?   The Yeoville Post Office in Raleigh Street, C.N.A, the Picadilly Bioscope  the Bug House (Oi) next door to  Yeoville Home Industries (owned by Simon and Leah Kaufman),   Kenmere Pharmacy (owned by the Marams) (next to the fruit shop in Kenmere Rd) and  Yeoville Pharmacy (owned by the Joffes) (diagonally opposite the Yeoville Baths in Raleigh St.,)  Yeoville Fruit and Flowers (Jorge aka George),   Hill Fisheries,   Crystals,   Yeoville Baths, (and a swimming coach there called Bernard  Green) and the Apollo Café across the road where they played pinball and the ducktails always hung around there with their chains, and motor bikes, all the Brekers.   Theo  Hommel (fabrics),   Fitz Bakery where the OK Bazaars in Yeoville built their new shop, corner Raleigh and Bedford, diagonally opposite the Yeoville Library.  And opposite where the 19 bus went into Berea and town), Hub Stores,    Emdins – Haberdashery – (one or two shops down from the Apollo Café,)  Denbo Jewish Bookstore,  Scotch Corner!    Billy’s Hairdresser in Rockey Street (near Raymond St)    Faigels   and the  Dae-nite Pharmacy Rockey Street, cor. Bezuidenhout,   Squires (clothing, school uniforms/shoes)

 Portuguese Fish and Chip shop in Rockey Street, all the Tailor shops going down into Rockey Street, and Jekisons Tailors, and a  guy called Bokkie Jekison who was the Tailor there  (great looking bloke, with a great looking brother, I think his name was Eugene)  both so easy on the eye!). Bokkie recently told someone that on the 7th April he will have been at the shop for 55 years  California Tailors, and the Yeoville Recreation Center in Raleigh St, where Sandra Stein won the “Miss Yeoville” competition in about 1962 .(Bokkie Jekison died before the 7th April, suddenly, whilst out on a walk)

Water Polo at the Yeoville Baths. Richard LEE was a water-polo player, he lived in Yeo Street, Yeoville, I think.  Had a brother Eric LEE.  They were Highlands North school boys.  Lionel GILINSKY, another water-polo player.

 And does anyone remember the Purdy Boys, Neville and Leonard?

Some MORE of the YEOVILLE, CYRILDENE, OBSERVATORY people …… Jeff Wittles ,    Linda Shapiro,     Rex Schwartz,    Sharon  Schwartz ,     Ivan Sabbath,       Arnold Messias,     Ivan Sandler,     Louise Lazersohn ,     Barry Sacks,      Barry Bloch,     Barry Black,    Michael Walldorf (Vorsie),  Sonia Barsol,     Gerald (Jake) Fox (Z”l)  Jonny Grossmark,    Vivian Stillerman,    Charmian Clayton,   Max Gur,   Ruth Margolis,   Elaine Margolis,   Heather Garrun,   Yvette, Esther & Naomi Sofer.    Sharna & Nadja Isaacs (aka Lerman),   Colin Opwald,     Frances Siegenberg,  Nicky & Costa Kapitanopoulos,  Alfie Wood and his sister Margie Wood (now Horn),   Locky Lockstone,  Shirley Shtub  (probably Sztab),  Reuel Kaplan,  Geoff (Geoffrey)  Landsman (Z”l) ,  Reina Cohen (O’h),   Sandra Stein (Ezra) ,  Nola Stein (Fox),  Charmion Clayton,   Ivor Cohen,   Sandra Deitz ,   Spencer Hodgson,     Heather Garrun,    Linda Chitiz or Chitters ,  Marlene Teper,   Leonard Kahn  & his sister Maureen Kahn. (now Puterman)  Maureen and her husband were one of the first people to move into a new block of flats called “La Contessa”,  in Yeo & Bedford St. Yeoville)   Arnie  Jones,   Jennifer Jones,   Bernard James,    Abel de Freitas,   Sandra Tucker.  The Griffith Girls (Virg, Bernice (Bunny) and  Diane –still great friends of mine) and their brother Cedric) The Matthews Girls Hazel, and Norma, there were more sisters but I can’t remember the names) .   

GREENSIDE/EMMARENTIA   People, -   Clifford Price,    Howard Price,    Brian Ruskin, and I think Barry Pillemar ,  Suzie  & Gaby Henshel, (de Groen),  June and Yalta Gervis,   Suzanne & Linda Myers,  Aubrey Gamsu    Ada Gamsu,   Maurice Hockman, Margo and Peter Philips,

HOUGHTON people. Michael, Brian & Jennifer Lever,    Molly Robinson,  Harry & Philip Sacks,    Sharon Smith (Munitz)  

HIGHLANDS NORTH  People. -   Brian, Stanley & Karen Feinstein (Joseph),   Max Schiff (O”h)

WHO REMEMBERS   -  Hymie Brest,  (Mayfair/ Kensington)  and his friend (to this day) Alec Ross   (Bez Valley).  Certainly part of the  “Main Manne” crowd.  

 ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA …………………………………

Where’re you okes jolling to?       Jollers.     Lekker Jol.

 Where are your folks tonight.

 Volkspeeler.     The Sakkie sakkie

 I’m only chaafing, man?     Sweet Obeet.!!     Lekker soos ‘n krekker (cracker)

 Wat ‘s goedkoop is duur koop.       Stille water – Diepe grond,

 Eina!     Skyfies.   Veldskoene.    Breekers.

 Don’t tune me Chandies

 Check that little lightie, he’s  two bricks and a tickey high

 Ever since Pa fell off the bus.

 Give me a bell, hey?       Bell me.    Love you stax.     I’ll  fetch you just now

 African women sitting on the street corners calling out   HEY Mielieeeeee -  Tickey Mielieeeeeeeee.    

 Vrystaat!  

 Vat hom Fluffy.

 I’ve got Sut.

 They’re so larnie!

 My ou’ man is giving me uphill

 My Skattebol.

 I feel up to Paw-Paw.  I feel up to Maggots.

 ‘Strue’s Bob…??       No….. You LIE !!!

 SHOT !!!!!!!!   (SHOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT)

 Skit ‘n donner (donder) (the movies)

  And Observatory café where boys played pinball and they had ‘Pennyline Sweets’ where you could buy 2 for a penny  and cafés had Jukeboxes . Remember the old 78 records (those were in the fifties though) and then the LPs - wow, and when those came out we thought we’d died and gone to Heaven, and the 45 speed records.   Cassettes, and tape recorders,   reel-to-reel tape-recorders (I still have one).

Boys had a way of walking, hands in pockets, only the thumbs visable and rolled from side to side with a sort of rolling gait, and the more they rolled as they walked, the more macho they felt!  

Who remembers ????……     Debras  (Schmaltz), and  when a tub of Yoghurt cost 8c, and an Appleltizer cost the same, a bar of Cadburys chocolate cost 5c and there was a chocolate bar called “Honeycrisp” also for 5c, and you could get a Toasted Cheese  for 15c.    Stamps cost 2½ cents .  If you left the envelope open, it was cheaper…     Airletter forms in green,   airmail writing paper, airmail envelopes and Basildon Bond writing paper.

STREETS in Yeoville/ Bellevue,    -   Raleigh St,   Rockey St,   Bezuidenhout St.,  Isipingo St., Raymond St , Hopkins St,  Yeo St,    Kenmere Rd,  Fortèsque Rd,    Becker St,   Cavendish Rd,    Bedford Rd,   Webb St,   Natal St, Isipingo,   St. Georges Rd,   Ellis St.,

 YEOVILLE BOXING CLUB  - Sammy Samson  and his son Cedric who sang as a child, and he had a group at some stage called “the FireFlies”   I think Alan Goldstein who was also a child singer may well have been part of that band ( later known as Alan Gold) .

How many people remember……. The Black Steer in Yeoville   - fab apple crumble and double thick cream and  in the 1960s the price of a Steerburger, with Pickled Cucumber, fried onions and salad was 45c ……….but at the Golden Spur,  the Burger would cost you 50c and the Yeoville crowd felt that was too expensive!)  Norman’s Grill (for Prawns!) in the Jeppe Hotel.    East Africa Pavilion (well known for it’s curries, where the waiters wore a red “fez”,  The 252 Tavern.   His  Majesty’s Cellars,   69 Grill.

 and Kosher -  Connoisseur Hotel,(Gloria Rootshtain) (long gone)

 And remember-   The Rosenkowitz 6   from Cape Town, first surviving Sextuplets in the World

 And when Arcadia (Jewish Orphanage and Home for Jewish children) was in Forestown

 DAENITE Pharmacy, Orange Grove.  Owned by  Chookie BRENNER .  and the okes that worked there, Mervin  Rappoport, Issy Peimer, Cecil Chweidan (O”h), Ivan Dorff, Solly Branstein, and a girl called Lola but I can’t remember her surname.   And     Dr. Chris Barnard, (Heart Transplants Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town)

 And the …… the motor racing at   Kyalami Race Track

 And the Motor Rallys?. Anyone remember  Lionel Gilinsky?    He raced something called “Production cars” in “Endurance Races” at Old Grand Central Circuit ( Halfway House, now called Midrand) in the late 60’s and 70’s  -   and later “Historic” Cars at Kyalami Race Track.  He was known to be amongst  South Africa’s Top 3 Racing and Motor rally drivers in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.   Not bad for a boy from Welkom!!

Attorneys. -   Moss Morris & Ettlinger, (Lennie Ettlinger,   Max Levenberg,   Selwyn Cohen,   Hilliard Gordon,  articled clerks then - Rodney Berman and John Gilbert,  Also a Selwyn someone articled clerk).     Routlege Douglas   Wilson   Auret  & Wimble,      Wides , Chain & Berman  (Cyril Wides, Inky (Ian) Chain and Rodney Berman),     Edward Nathan.      Israel, During & Kossuth

Tour Operators - Springbok (Atlas) Safaris,  (Julie Lapedus).

Accountants.   Sussman and Lange (Trevor Sussman and David Lange)  (cousin of Myron Lange, the Surgeon) later known as Sussman Goddard.

HILLBROW.  We always went to The  Curzon and  Clarendon for 7/6- , ( later 75c,)  and then a Bioscope called the International (owned by Herman and Maxwell Youngelson) was opened at the top of Pretoria Street and there it would cost you between 90c and R1.00, but the seats were so comfy and the whole bioscope was so plush, that the Yeovillites felt it was well worth the extra.  

Anyone remember The  French Hairdressing Saloon    (a Mrs. Sher was the manageress) and the  OK  Bazaars and Carnival Novelty.

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA  ………………………….

I’m going for a goof this arvy.       ‘Scopes,   Flicks, Flik,     What’s the “Aggie”?     

Hy het  haar uitgeskop, verstaan jy my?

Check my new jammy!

 We going to Durbs with the car,  probably see lots of ‘Vaalies there, all the ou toppies,   tannies  and   ooms,  nie waar nie?

My ol’ lady!       My ol’ man.    

My broer !    My sussie.    My Ouma,    My Oupa

 Knobkerrie.   Sjambok

 It’s so hot, I’m vrekking off   here.

 D’is Baie Mooi

 He lives in the Gramadoelas….

 She lives in the Bundu…

 The Dingas

 I was with Ruth, Heather and them

 Drink your SUP !!     there’s a plate on the Zinc

 Let’s make a plan…..

 Cows give us MULK!

 My one aunt    My one leg,    My one arm,    My one finger   My one toe

 Broekies

 The word “THE.  ” I learned in school that before a consonant we say “THE” .   “THE” bed,  “THE” table,  “THE” book. And before a vowel the have to prounce the “the” as “THEE”…………….  “THEE”  Apple,   “THEE” elephant,  “THEE” egg.

 So why then, do we hear (only in South Africa) people saying   “THUH” apple,  “THUH” Elephant,  “THUH” egg.  Please hold for “THUH” Operator.   And why do some of us say  “the PHOTA” when it is clearly “PHOTO”.

FOLKSINGING Era .   Who remembers the  Nite beat, run by Abe (who ran the tuck shop at the Yeoville Swimming Pool), and the folk-singers Ian & Ritchie ( Ian Lawrence and Ritchie Morris),    Des and Dawn (Lindberg)(“And the Seagull’s name was Nelson”) (Dawn wore her hair in two pigtails then) Colin Shamley,   Dave Marks (“Mountains of Men”  and “Master Jack”) Cornelia, And  The Troubador,  The College Set - Andy Levy,  Hugh Solomon,  Norman Cohen)     Keith Blundell and the Baladeers,     Aubrey and Beryl Ellis.     Mervyn and Jocelyn Miller (from Potch).   Mel, Mel and Julian (Mel Miller, Mel Green, and Julian Laxton.

BIKERS and the Hell’s Angels, wearing black leather jackets, chains and the peace sign often around their necks,  roaring down Pretoria St and Kotze St on Harley Davidsons making a helluva racket, some of the more nervous  Biker girls precariously hanging  onto their boyfriend’s backs,  but “the in girls” didn’t hold on, they somehow balanced themselves by placing their hands nonchelantly behind the seat, looking around, throwing their hair back, with a  “don’t- sig–with- me” look, lazer- beam- eyes, -looking–out- through- thick- black- fringes, and a tattoo here and there.  

And nobody did “sig” with them, either.  

 The FLYING SAUCER is where they all met.   Pretoria Street, Hillbrow.

Hillbrow’s Eateries and Coffee Bars   Doney’s coffee bar for the best cappuccino in town (who remembers  Jeftah and George, the Duke)    Café Wien (later on), with the most comfortable seats,   it was like sitting in your own lounge,  Café Krantzler,    Dunk-a-donut, The  Milky Lane,  the Florian (where the bus turned to go down Twist street to Town).    Mi Vami,   Lucky  Luke  (Steak House in the 70s),  Fontana, open 24 hours a day, (famous for their chickens roasted on a spit,)  Pikin-a-chicken,   Porter House (Frulatto and the best Pink Sauce in town) not to mention the steaks (not that I ate them being one of the Kosher Kids, but I was sorely tempted, HA HA HA) and the German Beer Keller,  The Hamburger Hut,  Golden Egg,   Bella Napoli. Kiss-Kiss.

 The CHEZA in Jeppe Street.  Famous for Muesli.

 HAIR STYLES and fashion.  We dyed our hair black with Palette where you dropped a white tablet into some black gunky muck and we all had pitch black hair. The Blacker your hair, the more “sharp” you were.   We teased it and wore it in Wings, and the bigger the Wings were, the more “with it” you were.   And remember the stiff petticoats under your many Flared skirts,   and cat-eye glasses?  Helanca stove-pipes,  in all colours.  Studded Belts, Box Pleated skirts,  and ID Bracelets (with your boyfriend’s name engraved on the inside), Plaid pinafores came later on, and a ridiculous little narrow velvet bow on a clip or hairgrip which we found a space for in the teased bird’s nest, usually just to the back of the fringe. And also a thin chiffon scarf tied around the hair.  White high-heeled shoes  (I wouldn’t be seen dead in half the things we wore then)

My Mom always said that my hair was like a Bird’s Nest at the back, but then I didn’t have eyes at the back of my head,  (just as well).  Boys wore their hair sleeked back with Brylcream and Vitalis and all bought their t-shirts from the Skipper Bar. (Arnie, Mervyn, Earle and Barry Sacks) Black t-shirts with  thin white and red stripes around the neck.   And a corresponding white tee-shirt, with black and red stripes.  If you didn’t have one of those, you were not one of the “in” boys!!!!  

 And then girls started to iron their hair.   I remember my Mother used to plonk my head onto the ironing board, and put a brown paper bag on top of it, and iron away until I had sleek straight hair, but then the minute it rained, I looked at though someone has plugged me into an electric socket….  Durbs did the same to all those who had out-of-control hair -    Frizzed them out in 2 mns flat,  in fact as soon as you got to Van Reenen’s Pass into Natal, you knew you were there because your hair suddenly was on its own mission……..

and who Whirled their hair?????  Oy -  a bittereh gelechter….. We whirled it One way, then the other way, and you had dead straight hair (until you hit the 505 Club and the first thing you’d notice is that your fringe was just “not there” anymore) and the rest of your poor hair style was all moving in different directions.  If it was raining, and you opened your front door, bang went the straight hair.

Remember those little DOEKs we wore on our head when we went to Durbs.  I have a photo of myself wearing one.

COME ON GIRLS  - who used to sleep with curlers/rollers in their hair!! and who remembers using the inside of a TOILET ROLL as an emergency roller???????  And all this lot would be covered over by a hairnet.   Of course morning brought a splitter- of- a- headache from the curlers digging into your head.  Anyone remember?  Bet you do!!!  I DO!! There you are, the big ADMIT……….   What on EARTH did we look like?  I don’t even want to think about it …………………

I always say that if I have to come back in another life, I want to come back as ME but with dead straight hair. Second choice, I wouldn’t mind coming back as one of my spoilt-out-of-control  Dachshunds either (but the  straight haired type, not the wiry haired) (ha ha)

 GYM:    Bodybuilders, weight-lifters and wannabes came strutting out of Gyms such as  Sam Busa  and   Monte Osher  all fit and glistening, with huge shoulder muscles, and killer smiles  - carrying black gym bags.  And  Reg Park’s Gym,  ALSO somewhere in Hillbrow.

YOGA:    Mannie and Alan FINGER,   Nina OBEL

MODEL AGENCIES: .  Stella Grove and Gianna Pizanello

DANCING STUDIOS and DANCERS:    Natalie Stern      the late Mercedes Molina,    Jeffrey Neiman  (Enrique Segovia) & Rhoda Rifkin,    Bernice Hotz , Gitanella   (Spanish, Ballet,) Shirley Klitzner (O”h)  (later in the 70s Hilary Etkind - taught with Rhoda and Jeffrey)    (anyone who ever loved Spanish dancing, will remember Mercedes Molina/ Jeffrey Neiman as a brilliant dance duo)  (and will remember the very sad passing away of Shirley Klitzner (O”h) when she was barely into her twenties).

 PHOTOGRAPHERS.   Maurice,   Kurt Slesinger,    Karklin,  when it was fashionable to stand your wedding photo on an small easel on the floor.  Either carpet or parquet flooring.  Stella Nova .

RUGBY. Alan MENTER   Springbok Flyhalf, and   Sid NOMIS Springbok - Center, and later Wing),   Alan is married to Pam (ex Pretoria) and his Brothers are  Brian, Robert (Robbie) and Mandy (Malcolm (Z”l)) Menter. Their Mom Esmé (O”h)  grew up with mine, in Dublin.  Syd is married to Ann.

 CRICKET.    Dr. Ali BACHER  former South African cricket captain and one of the greastet cricketers in South Africa. Ali BACHER received South Africa’s Sports Merit Award, the country’s HIGHEST athletics honour. Ali is married to Shira (I am friendly with Shira’s sister Marsha KARKLIN,) and I remember their daughter Ann being a Tennis champion when she was just a little kid of 11 in the days of the “Jewish Guild”  Other well known South African Jewish cricketers came later on, Mandy YACHAD , and later Adam BACHER, nephew of Dr. Ali Bacher

TYPEWRITERS.    My first memory of a type writer was that old black thing with with a keyboard with round circular lettering and a typewriter ribbon.   My Mom used one in Dublin,  Then I remember the Olivetti and also a swiss typewriter,  but the ones where you would have to bash a silver thing on the upper  right to go to a new line.  I remember electric typewriters, and using a white powdery Tippex  thing for covering up mistakes, except that they never quite covered them up, particularly on the carbon copies. And remember the carbon copies.. HA HA,  and when I worked for lawyers, they didn’t allow those tippex rub-outs, so one little mistake and you had to start all over again. Remember STENCILS and Roneo-ing various blurb.   I can remember using a bright shocking pink liquid with the stencils, I think.  We wrote to “Messers. So and so”, and we’d end off with “ I remain, Yours Faithfully”

 WEDDINGS  and when the Bride/Kallah would change into her “going away outfit” and the blissful couple would leave the wedding to go off on their honeymoon.  When Bride’s kept their vails on the entire night. When there were only 4 pole-holders and the Bride’s  parents paid for the entire wedding, and the Groom/Chossen’s parents would pay for the booze, the photographer and the flowers.

 THE CIRCUS   Boswell-Wilkie. I hated the circus, terrified of the animals and sorry for them at the same time, a hypnotized crocodile once got out- of- control and strarted climbing out of the ring into the screaming audience. Clowns clowning around were never my scene, and when the trapeze artists or the tight-rope walkers did their act, my heart was always in my mouth, terrified they would fall or something.  One did once, I can never get that memory out of my mind.  

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ……………………………………

 I dopped my exams and my folks are having a cadenza -  *Snot ’n trana  all round ….. (*Yiddish Equivalent is Vainin ‘n Kloggin, well, that is the Yiddish we used in Ireland).  

Chips, here comes the Teacher.

I’ll have a dop of brandy.

Ops me a pencil.  

Baie Dankie…….. hoor!    Aseblieftog!

Plaasjapie.

Safe my mate !!!!   (and the hand movement – very important) -   forefinger/little finger pointed up while thumb was holding middle/ ring finger down) - done with a wag-type-movement, like fast- mode windscreen wipers.

We’re Chommies  

Cheers!  

There’s a Miggie in my room.  

Kyk  daai (Daardie) Goggoh (as in insect, not as in “GOGO” -  Zulu for Granny)

Boeremeisie.     Mevrou,     Mejuffrou/Juffrou,     Meneer

Kyk na daardie lelike ding………………

 Kombi

 Gooi

 Waneer u die syn hoor, is dit agtien uur, twee en vyftig minute en dertig sekondes…………..

 Around 1964 came the Beatles, (“8 days a week”, “Love Love me do” and later, “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s club Band” “Hey Jude”)  The Rolling Stones, (Angie)  the Mini Skirt era and  Mary Quant and the birth of the Discothèque .    Op Art earings in gaudy colours and the skirts continued to get shorter.  Girls wore double breasted Pin stripe suits which made a come back.  The Boutiques were born.  I remember the  BENATER family had a great boutique “Carnabies”, at the top of Rissik Street, or near there.  It was, I think, the first shop of it’s kind.  Very modern, trendy and for the young (20s and 30s).  And the Pink Panther was in Hillbrow - Also very trendy gear.

 Remember Twiggy?……….  She was on every Magazine cover, often holding her Teddy Bear, feet pidgeon-toed, with beautiful big brown eyes, and a body so thin, she could fit through a crack in the wall.   She started a trend, her, and “the Shrimp” -  (Jean Shrimpton),  and Mary Quant.

 AND   Op Art Earings     in strange shapes and gaudy colours, shorter skirts, and flattie shoes.  

 The First Disco was at the Summit Club, Marrakech,  (around 1966) with Go-Go dancers Dixie,  Felicity Fouché, and  Christine all dancing away in the micro-est of Mini-Skirts.   Johnny Martin (previously known as Martin Raff) was the owner, and I heard he also owned a club called 007.

Someone called Neville Peacock was the Marrakech DJ and there were psychdelic and ultra violet lights and if you stood under the latter, all your “klein-goed” shone like a beacon for all to see.  

And   the 505 also in Hillbrow.  Eddie Eckstein and Paul Ditchfield - The Bats played there on a Sunday ),  and the Diamonds  and  Gene Rockwell (Heart!”) as did the Basemen (Ronnie Cline on Keyboard, Ralph Simon – Singer, Rodney Caines – Bass Guitar, Leon Bilewitz – drummer and Irwin Kalis – Lead Guitar) and Clive Calder,  (Les Markowitz on drums) also played at “Club-a-go-go” and also they toured around the countryside and played at various venues.

Also Johnny Congos (“Sealed with a Kiss”),  Johnny and the G-Men,  and Johnny Sharp,   4 Jacks and a Jill.   The Staccatos.  Did I mention Manfred Mann? (“pretty Flamingo”)

 MORE CLUBS   - TJ’s  (town) and The Yellow Submarine (Hillbrow) (owned by Martin HART) and the Boat (Buccleuch) were in the latter part of the sixties  and the Downstairs later called The Purple Marmalade somewhere in Hillbrow.  Another Disco was owned by George McCauley, brother of  Ray, opposite Joubert Park (Club-A-Go-Go),  His Granny worked in the tuckshop and was always so nice to everyone.  The Band there was the “Falling Leaves” and George was in the Band.   The Electric Circus,  And  Raffles , a very fancy disco/restaurant but that was in the late 70s. Owned by Dave Kerney. (I think).  The Stable in Jan Smuts Avenue. The Out of Town Club

 And who remembers the other Bioscopes -  The   Colosseum with the twinkling lights,  Cliff Richard sang there once, and a few girls from Barnato Park were expelled for bunking school and going to his concerts.    His Majestys,   Monte Carlo (French Movies),  The  Empire,   20th Cen. Fox - Pritchard Street,  Cinerama (Claim and Noord)  In those days there was an interval after the News and the Cartoons, and Usherettes would be standing at each exit with a tray with all the Munchies and Chocolates, cold-drinks, etc. The  Apollo  in Doornfontein.  I’ve already mentioned the Yeoville Bioscopes earlier on. Who remembers the “Midnight Shows”   the Astra and the Victory in Orange Grove, The Rex in Greenside. The Plaza, the Bijou in town and some flea-bitten run down Café Bio which no decent self-respecting girl would touch with a barge-pole, but I can’t remember it.  A lot of the Yale College boys went there. But not the girls!!!!

People smoked in the bioscopes (“scopes”) then and when you looked up, you saw it all swirling around in smoke from the projector.  Nice and healthy!!   but nobody ever noticed it.  It was just a part of life in the sixties.

REMEMBER WHEN ……….  we went to Bioscope on a Saturday night, dressed up in your A-line dress, or a Box- Pleated skirt, or tiny hound’s-tooth straight skirt in black/white and your black patent high-heeled shoes, with a Black Patent leather bag to match, and your gloves (which you carried in your hand).  And later you wore your Dress with the shorter hemline, Mini-Skirts, and  your “A-line evening coat” (Jackie Kennedy), just on the knee,  and your flattie shoes, the hair teased up to the high heavens and lacquered so heavily that if it rained, you looked like glue. (Boys hated teased and lacquered hair)

And the boys wore jarmins and Elvis Presley hair-styles with thin ties made of nylon or similar in a machine-crochet style.    (Later when the Beatles came in, boys’ hairstyles changed forever, and no boy would be seen dead with Brylcream or Vitalis plastered on his head).  Boys would never  previously been seen in pastel colours, but the Beatles changed all those dark shirts for pink, mauve and lemon, with a pin collar near the tie. 

Boys would buy you a 75c box of Black Magic chocolate at Interval.  If you put it into your black patent leather handbag and never offered him one, then your name was mud, and girls judged boys by whether they opened the car door for you …. or not!

 AND SOME OF THE MOVIE STARS ….,   Natalie Wood,    Kathryn Hepburn,  Rock Hudson,   Doris Day,   Steve McQueen,   Sohia Loren,    Alain Delon (the heart-throb of the 60’s) (who remembers him in “Purple noon”) Gina Lollobridgida,   Raquel Welsh,    Bridgitte Bardot,   Ursula Andress,   Warren Beatty,  Jack Nicholson (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest),   Shirley McLaine,     Julie Christie,    Michael Caine,  Elizabeth Taylor,   Richard Burton,    Paul Newman,    Sal Mineo,    Suzanne Pleshette,   Richard Burton,    Sean Connery,    Omar Sharif,    Charlton Heston,   Gregory Peck (to die for?) James Dean

 POPULAR MOVIES.   West side story,   King Kong,  Gone with the Wind,   Exodus,   Dr. No,   *From Russia with Love,   * (Remember in that movie, the Russian woman (was her name someone KREBBS?) who had a knife come out of her boot and it shot straight into poor Sean Connery’s shin bone. EINA!     Just thinking about it, hurts me)   Bridge on the River Kwai,    Dr. Zhivago,    Goldfinger,   (it had a great theme song in it  by I think Shirley Bassey) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,   Annie Get your Gun,    Dingaka.

 And the DRIVE INs     Old Pta Road -   Jhb Drive in,   The 5-Star (Eloff St.Ext),  The Velskoen  (If a girl was seen at the drive in with a boy, she got a “bad name” and the same for the Café Bio’s.  It was just not for a nice Jewish girl!!

 REMEMBER WHEN ….. there was NO Bioscope on Sunday nights

 THEATRES.  Alhambra (Doornfontein) ,   Brian Brooke (Braamfontein),     Market Theatre ( Newtown),     Alexander theater ,    Jacques Brel,     Apollo (Doornfontein).

 Remember the Adverts for all the Cigarettes,  Players,  Craven "A", Dunhill (remember the maroon Rolls Royce?)  Benson & Hedges (Gold) ,   Lexington (That’s the one!),   Gunston (remember him on a raft, all macho,manly, unshaven and rough and ready tumbling through impossible rivers?)   Horseshoe Tobacco,     Gold Dollar,    Texan, (which the boys would hold between their thumb and middle finger)   Lucky Strike,   Gauloise and Peter Stuyvesant (for the fun lovers, remember the wonderful places they went to and the great clothes they wore, swimming in glorious lagoons, skiing down snow-capped mountains, all the beautiful people,all  having wonderful fun?)  I never smoked,(well, I have to say that, in case my family read this article, ha ha) but after I watched the Peter Stuyvesant adverts, I really felt like buying a packet , so that I too, could go to all those magical places, and I’d look glamerous too,  HA HA   - (the power of advertising!) (A Bittereh Gelechter!!)

But it just looked so “in” to see people smoking, and girls would hold the cigarettes at the tips of their fingers, and waved their hands for effect as they spoke, shaking their fringes out of their eyes.   People who didn’t smoke, were “squares”.  

I remember Celeste GREENBLATT, taught me how to apply black pencil inside my eyelids, and ‘base” onto my face and to wear white lipstick and I taught Sandra STEIN (later Ezra) to dye her hair black, and the blacker the better, (her  Mother had a FIT)  - Golda (née Kaufman)  (O”h) whom I saw yearly in LA and she never failed to remind me ! 

FLORA and FAUNA in South Africa.  I remember once being enthralled by the most magnificent yellow creeper we had growing on the fence in Becker Street.  I took photos of it, and sent it to my friends in Dublin to show the exotic flora and fauna is this beautiful sunny South Africa, until Michael GOLDING next door, laughed his head off and said “but that’s only Canary Creeper, it’s not much better than a common garden weed”!!     African Violets,  Jasmin, Golden Shower,   Begonia Sherera,   Bougainvillea,    Pointsettia,   Birds of Paradise,  Cycads?. Maybe they do grow overseas too.

 PARTIES   in   Observatory,   Cyrildene and   Dewetshof.  We rock ‘n rolled to Elvis Presley’s   “Jail house rock” & “Don’t step on my blue suede shoes”, “Rock around the Clock”   in our flared skirts with stiff petticoats underneath, the more the better, and huge belts around our waists, and we wore flat shoes (75c at Maram’s chemist, and 95c for the leopard skin ones).   And later we twisted with Chubby Checker (Let’s Twist again, like we did last summer )   We also did a dance called the Shake – anyone remember the song “I’ll do the Shake, the hippy- hippy shake” and also a dance called the Madison.

 The Bez Valley Ou’s, on a Sat night Jol, and the Lebs  would sometimes gatecrash. Usually a Scuffle and the girl’s father would have to ask them to leave.  Sometimes, in stubborn cases the police would have to be called in to skop them all out.  And then the party continued on,    Little Richard,   Cliff Richard,   -   sometimes a few of the kids would have a bit of “dagga”, (a zol), on the stoep or in the back garden when they thought nobody was looking, and the only way anyone kopped on was because they would come back to the party with a manic laugh, and red eyes. (and of course the smell, but if you admitted to knowing the smell, then it meant you were a dagga smoker yourself!)    Trini Lopez. “If I had a hammer”

 SOCIALS at   Oxford Shul,  The Vrede Hall,    Yeoville Recreation Center,    Temple Shalom,   and Bands like “Dinkie and the Deans” - Jake (Gerald) Fox  (Z”l) (rhythm Guitar),  Barry Sacks (Lead Guitar),  Spencer Hodgson (Bass guitar)  and Errol Sack on the drums, would play, they also played at the Club 505 in “the Brow”.   Peter Lotus well known Jhb Disc Jockey,  I think he sang as well.  Lots of singers used to go to Margo’s on a Sunday Afternoon, and the crowd would all hot-foot it out there after them to hear music. I think it was Bapsfontein, or near there).    There was little else to do on a Sunday, so many places were closed.  Just remembered another band, Dave Levine and the Swinging Angels.   Les Gutfreund was one of the band and  made a name for himself as Les Goode. “Dickie Loader and the Blue Jeans”  Gene Rockwell – Heart.

NIGHT CLUBS and Bands.  Bennie Michaels,    Archie Silansky and his daughter Carole Sands     The Coconut Grove  at the Orange Grove Hotel,    Dan Hill (Ichilchik),     The Colony at the Hyde Park Hotel,    Sardi’s,    The  Mediteranean (I Cinque di Roma),  Diamond Horseshoe,   The Greek Taverna,     Ciro’s (Kruis Street)

 STORES.   John Orrs,     The Belfast,     Greatermans,     ABC Shoes, Dodo’s,   Barnes Shoes,   Ackermans,     Ansteys later Garlics,      Katz & Lourie,     Mr. Man,      Man about Town,    Stuttafords,      Woolworths,     Deans Mans’ shop,     Skipper Bar,       O.K Bazaars,     Cuthberts,     Markhams,      Millews,       K. Marks ( curtains),    Juta's,     Bothner & Polliack (records,   Henri Lidji Gallery,   Derbers Furs,     FDF (Fruit & Dried Fruits)   Vanité (Ladies clothes)     Bradlows,      Geen & Richards,     Shepherd & Barker (Furniture),    CAN,     Jaffs (Fabrics),   Mosenthals,    Dicks (Sweets) - Rissik Street, and later on  Morkels, your two year guarantee store!   Putzys.    McCullogh & Bothwell (School Uniforms).

 REMEMBER WHEN we would get all dressed up to go to town, to have tea at Ansteys sitting alongside Ladies in beautiful outfits, white gloves, smart, elegant, men in suits, with white shirts and ties

 MUSIC  Soul music was popular in the 60s,   Aretha Franklin,   Jimi Hendrix,    Carla Thomas,    Otis Redding (“sitting on the Dock of the Bay”),  Percy Sledge (“ Midnight Hour”, and Music from Brasil, Sérgio Mendes,  Herb Alpert and the Tijuana brass.

And of course, Johnny Mathis,  Charles Aznavour,  Simon and Garfunkel, José Feliciano

And ….  REMEMBER WHEN , our Mothers would ring a little bell at suppertime, and the “servant” (oi, how COULD we have??) would come in with the next course. And when your “boy” did the garden and the “girl” cooked.  

 SHULS   Lions Shul (Doornfontein),   Wolmarans street ( Rabbi Rabinowitz 50’s and 60’s, then Chief Rabbi Casper)    Yeoville Shul (Rabbi Lapin),   Adas Yeshuran (Yeoville) ,   The Bnei Akiva Shul (Raleigh Street),  Greenside Shul,    Emmerentia,     Fordsburg,   Sydenham Highlands North,  Mayfair (Rabbi Zagenov) , Kensington Shul (Rabbi Rabinowitz),   The Curve  (Observatory),   Berea Shul (Rabbi Bender and Rabbi Aloy),    Oxford Shul (Rabbi Bernhard),   Chassidic Shul (Rabbi Lipskar)     Cyrildene,    Temple Emanuel (? and  Rabbi Assabi),  Temple Israel (Rabbi Super), Temple Shalom,   Temple Beth-El (Rabbi Ben Isaacson)   Sandton Shul (BHH) Rabbi ZS Suchard (but that was in the 70’s) Yeo Street Shul.  Reverend Symanovitz from Yeoville Beth Din.  The Beth Din was in Raleigh Street then.

 CHAZONIM. Chazen Hass,   Chazen Bagley,   Chazen Dudu Fisher (1970s early 80’s),   Chazen Johnny Glück (Wolmarans) in the eighties (Choirmaster Prof. David Cohen). Chazen Hasdan, (Warmbaths) Chazen Badash, (Yeoville, Choirmaster *Malovany) Chazan Mandel (Berea Shul) – Gus Levy choirmaster.  (* a world reknowned Chazen - I did attend a concert of his here in Jhb a number of years ago), Chazen Berele Chagy

 Yeoville Shul Choir,   Lionel Levin,   Kenny and Colin Koransky  and their father, Natie Koransky, Martin Harris, Len Bobroff,  Stanley Feinstein,  Brian Feinstein,  Robert Lapedus, David Shapiro.   The Choirmaster was Mr. Himmelstein,  I think his son Lior, was in the Choir too.  Colin Opwald.   Benny Lipchick (Z”l)

 KIDS at the Yeoville Shul…. Percy Suntup,   Fivie (Phillip) and Hymie (Z”l) Symanowitz,   Olga Berelowitz,   Joan Morris,   Karen Feinstein,   Linda and Stanley Chitiz,   Wolfie and Marlene Teper,   me and my Boet,  Robert Lapedus, Gillian Erster and her brother Moishe Erster,   Naomi Shapiro,   Marilyn & Sheila Atkins,  David Shapiro,  Rhoda Shapiro,  Jenny Winnick,    Alan Kaye,   Philip Eliason,   Sheila Hahn and Irma Keifer   I remember David and Daniel Lapin, ( Rabbi Lapin’s sons) being at the Shul  .

 Beni Akiva and Habonim Camps.   Betar.  Hashomer Ha’tza-ir (spelling, whoops!!)

 AND REMEMBER WHEN the only children at a barmitzvah function were the Barmitzvah boy and his siblings, who were allowed to stay up for the night.  The entire Simcha was for adults and the only time you heard the Barmi boy, was when he made his speech.    Robert’s Barmitzvah was a Kiddush at home after Shul, and a “tea” that evening for a few friends of my Parents.  Many kids had that kind of Barmi.  Who knew then from Theme  Barmitzvahs.  

 AND …..When Children were children, and played snakes and ladders, and ludo, dominoes, monopoly, yo-yo’s, and they read out of the Local Libraries and they played Cowboys and Indians, ( just entertained themselves.  No Video games, computers, cell phones, I-pods, Electronic everything… and No TV then either.  

BANKS and Building Societies.  Barclays,   Volkskas Bank,   Allied Building Society,  SA Perm(inent)   The UBS (United Building Society)  SA Perm,    NBS (Natal Building Society)   Trust Bank  

 ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ……………………………….

 J’’’’enesburg!

Ag Shame, man, were you home stokkies aleen??

Wikkel.   Sikkel.    I’ve got no tom, hey?

Koeksusters.      Konfyt.       Biltong.        Vet-koek.        Braaivleis.

Boerevors en Pap.        Poitjiekos.     Mielie.   Rooibos Tea.    

Grondboontjiebotter

Ouma se Rusks.       Fanny Farmers

“Hau”

The Tokoloshe is coming…      Dorp !   Pandotjie!  

 He rocked up in an old  Skedonk.

Question.     Hallo Meneer………. Hoe Gaan Dit met jou vandag?.     

Answer.       Ag , No…..  Fine ….Jaaaaa,……….   Kan nie Klaar Nie !

My Oom se Bakkie

My Gran did the “Charlston”, but that was back in Nineteen voetsak

Why are you still Gaan-ing on?   you  Poepal !!  

He is so Grotty….. A real Dweet …….A Drip.

It’s …Kwaai.   It’s …. Skarm.

 HOTELS : The Carlton (original Carlton) ,  Moulin Rouge,  The Chelsea Hotel (Hillbrow) (I think this is where the Jacques BREL theatre was)  Casa Mia,    Langham ,    Gresham,    the Jeppe Hotel (Norman’s Grill)     Victoria ( Plein Street near Station),  Criterion ,   Landrost hotel (Anabelles nightclub).    Tollman Towers – (next to Jeppe Street Post Office),    The President Hotel (Eloff Street),   Anlar Hotel (Hillbrow),   Courtleigh Hotel (Berea),   Jocelyn Residential Hotel (Claim Street Joubert Park),    the Quirinal,   Waldorf ,  and Balalaika which was then way out in the “country” - Sandown,  which is today, a hub of activity. The Skyline,   The Capri  and The Park Royal

 SQUAD CARS.   HOT RODS and the name Buddy Fuller comes into my head for some reason.

MOTORTOWN. Remember when all the motor dealerships were in Eloff Street, Ext.  Motortown.   And names like  Rillstone Motors (Agents for the Simca),   Lawson Motors, (Agents for Volvo),    Lucy’s Motors  (Katz) (Agents for Fiat),  Curries Motors,   Grosvenor Motors ( Agents for Ford),    Sydney Clow  (Agents for Peugeot),     and a dealeship in Anderson Street called T.A.K. Motors, (Agents for Lancia and Ferrari), Ronnie Bass,  (Sigma)

 And then Main Street became the used car center for Jhb.   Austin ,   Chevrolet,    Mercury,     Buick,    Dodge,     Morris Minor,     Mini Minor,     Hillman Minx,     Ford Fairlane,     Vauxhall Victor,     Ford Cortina,     (Ford) Zeyphyr,     Sunbeam.  Killarney Toyota.   Lionel Gilinsky (Pilot, Motor Rally Driver/Racer) Brenner Toyota in Braamfontein,        Chookie Brenner  

PETROL     Shell,    BP,   Mobil (Engen),   Sasol,    Trek,   Caltex,    Total,  

 REMEMBER WHEN Milk was delivered to the house????, in proper Milkbottles with red tinfoil caps, and the cream would be all at the top of the bottle? And Nel’s Rust Dairy in Victory Park.

 DOORNFONTEIN. – Apollo Cinema  near Crystals,  Crystals, Beit Street (who later moved to Yeoville)   Wachenheimers, Goldenbergs,  and  Nussbaums, all in Beit Street, and Dairy Alhambra (Zama Levine) - opposite the Alhambra Theatre in Beit Street. Zama Levine had the shop for about 40 years (according to his daughter Gloria Levine Ash).  Gloria’s mom was from the ICHILCHIK family (Dan Hill and Gloria’s Mom, Emma Ichilchik Levine (a cellist)  were siblings.  Dembo’s in Beit Street.   The famous sculptor Anton Von Wouw lived next door to the Alhambra and opposite Gloria Levine’s (Ash) Grandfather, Mr. Ichilchik in Doornfontein. American Café for ice-cream, Sour Kraut, Hot Dogs, Millers Antiques on Simert Road.  Campbells.  Cohen’s Café.   And Ellis Park.

Doornfontein Streets   Beit Street,   Siemert Road,   Siveright Avenue.  

And Segall’s Sausages (Alf Segall) (spelling?). Kerk Street, York House.

 ROADHOUSES.   Dolls House (Highlands North), Casablanca (Nugget Hilll) Dakota (Crown Mines), and Uncle Charlies.

Ice CREAM.  Papagallo.

 WITS RAG   Down Eloff Street, with the floats, remember?    and the Rag Queens and Princesses.   I remember one particular Jewish Rag Princess of 1971, and still a beautiful girl to this day - Blond hair, gorgeous and looks like she just stepped out of vogue magazine -   June Gervis  ( - two sons, Grant and Richard Reichlin, both  of whom were at school with my children, Angela and Gregory Brest)

 ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ………………………………..

“She took me around”   Around where?

And what about   “See that ou??  -   he threw me with (wif) a stone”  

The Spanspek is Vrot!

Takkies.

Ag Dame! …………………..

Listen, Lady ………………

And how many South.Africans when they first arrived in America, England, Australia, Israel etc talked about taking their “costume” or “Cozzie” to the Beach.

She’s the   most prettiest   girl.

My ou’ man caught me smoking dagga, hey, and I got such a  SKRIK.

I bumped her on the corner of Cavendish and Becker Streets 

I didn’t scale anything

*Spek and Eiers   ( *Just because I know the name, doesn’t mean I’ve eaten it, see !)

Ek is a Ware Suid Afrikaaner.

Melktert!   Guavas,   Grenadilsh!!     Marmite,   Anchovette Paste,    Jungle Oats.

Comment - That bike is Kwaai, so lekker….   Answering comment  - MOH-SELFFFFFFF

YIDDISH/Jewish sayings -   In alle Schvartze Yohren,    He lives in  Alle Drerderin,    Meerskeit,  Fahrpackt,   Fahrkakte,    Fahrkrimpt,    Fahrbrempt,   Fahrshtunkender,  Farrible (Litvak word, in other countries they talk about a “Broigas”)   He’s a Shlemazzel,   He’s a Hundt,   He’s a Chaleria,  He’s a Peruvian,  He’s a Shlemiel, …  a Chazzer ….  a Mamzer,    She’s a plapper…. a Yenta,   Gei n Drerd,   Vos  Macht Tzu?,   Shreklich,  Chader (not the Chader where we learned Hebrew or Barmitzvahs) ,  Kitke,  Lax (lox in the USA)  I need that aggravation like a loch in kop?  I’m chalishing for some Petzah (In Dublin, we called it “Calves Foot Jelly”)  Alter Kakkers ,   Bobbe Meises,   Ebberbottled.  She’s such a kochelefel.

  Question  - How are you today Bobba ‘Chuma ???

Bobba’s answer -   Nu, does it do any good to complain???      

RADIO.   LM Radio  who remembers  the signature, “Aqui  Portugal Moçambique, fala-voz do Radio club em Lourenço Marques, transmitindo ondas curtas e médias

(This is (here is) Portugal, Moçambique, the voice of the Radio club in Lourenço Marques, transmitting in short and medium wave) with Evelyn Martin (Martins) .   David Davies and the LM Hit Parade and was it a little prayer ending off at midnight ?   With a sort of mournful depressing music to accompany it. Peter de Nobrega…  not sure which station..Bob Courtney  Eric Egen Springbok Radio , Paddy O’Byrne,  David Gresham (Gruesome Gresh) and Clark MacKay (Clackie MacKay) and Esmé Euverard (not sure if she was Springok Radio or what)  Charles Fortune (Cricket commentator)  Programmes like “Pets’ Parade”, and “the Creaking Door” –skriklig !!!!     David Gresham - Gruesome Gresh - (keep your feet on the ground ,and reach for the Stars)   Everyone remembers “JOHN BERKS” !!    - “Long John Berks” -   I always listened to the Talk shows and one show in particular has stayed in my mind. The Jhb Station Master, complete with an Afrikaans accent, (guess who) called a Yiddishe guy living somewhere in Killarney, to tell him that his consignment of chickens were on their way over.  You could hear what sounded like a few thousand chickens all clucking their heads off and the poor fellow was protesting, saying that it was the wrong number, it wasn’t him, some mistake and besides, he had a small balcony, and he didn’t have room for crates of chickens, but The “Station Master” kept on saying that he has nowhere for them either, the fellows’ name and address were on the crates and the chickens were going to be on their way, shortly..  What a “lag” that was.     Although this article is about the 60s, I can’t help but mention my fellow countryman, John Robbie, and John, if you ever get to read this   “Go mbeanna Dia Duit”   and enjoy Lá na Pádraig.

  AND  the Requests – I think It might have been Esmé Euverard who ran a programme, was it called “Forces Favourites”?   with Messages from girlfriends to their ou’s in the army,  with requests like this   “ Poppie, het jy ‘n boodskap”???   Poppy, are you there?  Speak up Poppie……., Poppie??      Crackle, crackle…..   Hallo,     crackle crackle ………..   Hallo, ja, D’is Poppie wat praat,  Ag, man, I’d like to send a message to my boyfriend at Voortrekker Hoogte??????       Daw-ling, I love you Verrry much???????? ,     ek het jou lief, my skat???      I hope you are orite and I cawnt wait til you are home again awready, Vasbyt  en Baie Liefde, van Poppie, hoor?       En  Frikkie says howwzit.   LOURENÇO MARQUES.   Polana Hotel,    Avenida 24 Julho (July),     o Zambi,    o Cisno Negro (Black Swan),   Xai Xai,    S. Martinho de Bilene (aka San Martino)  wonderful beaches,     prawns to die for (*just because I said that, doesn’t mean I ate them!!!)   “Cerveja” at sidewalk cafés,   Caldo Verde (soup),   wonderful buildings, Pregos.      

BUILDINGS such as    Palace Buildings,    Rand Club,     Old Arcade,   Markhams Technical College, Manners Mansions.     Broadcast House,  Essanby House,     Ponte  -  Harrow Road,     Rissik Street Post Office,     Union Grounds – Twist and Claim,Joubert Park.     The City Hall  -  Rissik Street. And in Jeppe Street the Medical buildings ... Jenner Chambers ,    Lister Buildings,    * Drs. Jacobson,  Broer  and Smith,   later  “and Barnard”, and later still, “and Kaplan”,     Pasteur Chambers ,     Medical Centre ,  Archie Jacobson,   Ivor Broer, Mervyn  Smith.    Michael Barnard  and Neville Kaplan (not all at the same time.)

 HOSPITALS:  the Lady Dudley,     Florence Nightingale,     Princess,   Marymount,      Franklin,     Queen Victoria,     Garden City Clinic     Parklane Clinic.     Fever Hospital,    Jhb Gen. (General Hospital)    The Childrens’ Hospital,     Baragwanath.   The Frangwyn –(Maternity )

 ARMY.   The Drill Hall in Joubert Park!   Voortrekker Hoogte (Pretoria) The first 3 months you were a rookie,  and after you got out 9 months down the drag, you went to Camps for about 3 weeks a few years later. Boys  went meshugah when their hair was cut so short.

And Polio –  two major epidemics in 1947 and 1954/55, when schools were closed, and public swimming pools too, children in iron lungs and leg braces.   Infantile Paralysis, they called it. (I wasn’t here then but I know about it)

Around the late fifties, a movie came out with Danny KAYE and Barbara Bel GEDDES (Miss Ellie in Dallas) , called the “FIVE PENNIES”. Story of Red Nichols, and his young daughter (played by both Susan Gordon and Tuesday Weld)  who contracted polio.   .

And “Interrupted Melody”  Another polio movie about the Opera singer, Eleanor PARKER.  Terrible epidemic, wiped out today, as far as I know .    And then they found an immunization against Polio.

WHO REMEMBERS …...   Gilooly’s farm,    Boksburg Lake,    Zoo Lake,    Florida Lake,    Wemmer Pan - Wembly stadium   Ice rink ,   The Wilds,   The Snake Park,    Melville swimming Pool,    Hillbrow Indoor Pool  (at the Summit Club), and the   Squash courts   there,   Brixton Swimming Pool,    Rand Show/Skou,   Milner Park,  Tower of Life.

THE ELLERINE brothers,   Sidney (O”h) and Eric

RESORTS.   Lover’s  Rock in the Magaliesberg,  Little Roseneath (Ndaba, Fourways).  Margo’s (where the bands all played on a Sunday afternoon. I think it was near Bapsfontein).  And lazy days sitting on top of the Wilds, admiring the Flora and Fauna and watching the world go by (not today!)  Linksfield Ridge.

ADVERTS..   Mac Phails -  Mac won’t phail you

NAMES CHANGES     Jan Smuts Airport – O.R Tambo ,   Halfway House -  Midrand,   Verwoerdburg – Centurion,.   Hendrik Verwoerd Drive -  Bram Fischer Drive,  Hans Strydom Drive  Malibongwe,  DF Malan -   Beyers Naudé,   Harrow Rd - Joe Slovo Drive - , Sandown Square  - Nelson Mandela Square.  Transvaal – Gauteng,    Eastern Transvaal – Mapumelanga.   Warmbaths - Bela Bela,   Pietersburg - Polakwane

 NEWSPAPERS/magazines   Rand Daily Mail.   Die  Vaderland,   Die Beeld,  The Star (still going strong) Sunday Express, Sunday Times AND  Back Page of the Sunday Times…  Scope Magazine

 I thought I’d end off with a little song ��………………..  anyone want to sing along?  You all know Sarie Marais?  Here we go. Een,  twee,  drie……..

My Sarie Marais is so ver van my hart,

Maar’k hoop om haar weer te sien,

Sy het in die wyk die Mooirivier gewoon,

Nog voor die oorlog het begin.

O bring my t’rug na die ou Transvaal,

daar waar my Sarie woon

daar onder in die mielies by die groen doringboom

Daar woon my Sarie Marais.

 Lekker Bly Skatties, and Alles van die Beste.  

 Anne Lapedus  (Brest)

one of the  “SIXTIES  ROCKERS” … still  ROCKING ON  !!!!

Uitlander, no more

!!!!  

 © Anne Lapedus Brest,   (Ex Dublin, Ireland)  Sandton, South Africa.

Contact details.  

digitalphoto@icon.co.za  or  annebrest@icon.co.za  

082.452.7166 .

 DISCLAIMER.  This article has been written from my memories of S.Africa from 48 years ago, and if a Shul, or Hotel, or a Club is not mentioned, it doesn’t mean that they didn’t exist, it means, simply, that I don’t remember them.  I can’t add them in, either, because then the article would not be “My Memories” any more.    

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[fictionz]

New Fiction 2022 - October

Short Stories & Chapters

"Leonora" by Everil Worrell (1927)

"The Hollow Man" by Norman Partridge (1991)

"The Black Stone Statue" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1937)

"The Door" by Ann R. Loverock (2020)

"The Events at Poroth Farm" by T.E.D. Klein (1972)

"The Dead Wagon" by Greye La Spina (1927)

"Soft" by F. Paul Wilson (1984)

"Beelzebub" by Robert Bloch (1963)

"The Black Phone" by Joe Hill (2004)

"The Angle of Horror" by Cristina Fernández Cubas (1996)

"The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896)

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)

"The Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)

"The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber (1949)

"The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson (1950)

"The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2014)

"The Phantom 'Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling (1888)

"Scales" by Cherene Sherrard (2017)

"The Aztec" by Carmen Baca (2020)

"The Reaper's Image" by Stephen King (1969)

"The Mummy’s Foot" by Théophile Gautier (1840)

"When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald (2008)

"The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin (1987)

"Turn Out the Light" by Penelope Love (2015)

"Unseen—Unfeared" by Francis Stevens (1919)

"The White Cormorant" by Frithjof Spalder (1971)

"A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain (1870)

"The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens (1866)

"Rearview" by Samantha Hunt (2020)

"The Green Bowl" by Sarah Orne Jewett (1901)

"A Good Student" by Nuzo Onoh (2014)

Dracula Daily - "October" by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897, 2021)

Comic Shorts & Single Issues

"Swamp Monster" by Basil Wolverton (1953)

"The Portrait of Sal Pullman" by Lonnie Nadler & Abby Howard (2019)

"O Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James & Abby Howard (2019)

"Rainbow Sprinkles" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Nimit Malavia (2018)

"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall!" by Jack Davis, et al. (1953)

"The Harvest" by Shannon Campbell & Pam Wishbow (2016)

"In Each and Every Package" by Reed Crandall, et al. (1954)

"Roots in Hell" by Richard Corben (2016)

"Mars Is Heaven!" by Ray Bradbury, Wally Wood, et al. (1953)

"Save the Last Dance for Me!" by Dennis O'Neil & Pat Boyette (1969)

"Infected" by Bruce Jones, Richard Corben, Steve Oliff (1982)

"Unpleasant Side Effects" by Kerry Gammill, Sam F. Park, Mar Omega (2010)

"The Boar's Head Beast" by George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, Wayne Howard (1975)

"Ill Bred" by Charles Burns (1985)

"Don't Go to the Island" by Sfé R. Monster & Kalyna Riis-Phillips (2016)

"Some Other Animal's Meat" by Emily Carroll (2016)

"Greed" by Becky Cloonan, Jordie Bellaire, Travis Lanham (2013)

"Goin' South" by Nancy Collins, David Imhoff, Jeff Butler, Steve Montano, Renée Witterstaetter, Electric Crayon, Simon Bisley (1995)

"Winnebago Graveyard #1" by Steve Niles, Stephanie Paitreau, Jordie Bellaire, Jen Bartel, Alison Sampson, Aditya Bidikar, Mingjue Helen Chen, Sarah Horrocks (2017)

"Seed" by Fiona Staples, Jose Villarrubia, Michael Dougherty, Todd Casey, Zach Shields, Marc Andreyko (2015)

"Kill Screen" by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly, Eva de la Cruz, Clem Robins, Bill Sienkiewicz, Rowena Yow, Shelly Bond (2015)

"The Fool of the Web" by Patricia Breen, Roel, Brenda Feikema (1997)

"Fortune Broken" by Sandy King, Leonardo Manco, Marianna Sanzone (2015)

"The Cemetery" by Franco, Abigail Larson, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

"The Speed of Pain" by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart, Steve Wands, Will Dennis (2018)

"Gestation" by Marguerite Bennett, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, Doug Garbark, Nic. J. Shaw (2014)

"Chemical 13!" by Michael Woods & Saskia Gutekunst (2009)

"Hello, My Name Is..." by Nadia Shammas, Rowan MacColl, Licha Myers, Chris Sanchez (2021)

"Sea of Souls" by Jenna Lynn Wright, Alvaro Feliu, Juan Francisco Mota, Ricardo Osnaya, Erik Lopera Tamayo, Jorge Cortes, Robby Bevaro, Maxflan Araujo, Walter Pereyra, Taylor Esposito (2022)

"Crush" by Janet Hetherington, Ronn Sutton, Becka Kinzie, Zakk Saam (2018)

"The End of All Things" by Natalie Leif & Elaine Well (2014)

Video & Electronic Games

Silent Hill dev. Team Silent (1999)

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow dev. Cloak and Dagger Games (2022)

Halloween Forever dev. Imaginary Monsters (2016)

Bride of Frankenstein dev. Paul Smith, Steve Howard, Timedata Ltd. (1987)

Zombies Ate My Neighbors dev. LucasArts (1993)

Darkstalkers 3 (aka Vampire Savior) dev. Capcom (1997)

Movies

Smile dir. Parker Finn (2022)

The Mummy dir. Karl Freund (1932)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers dir. Don Siegel (1956)

The Skin I Live In dir. Pedro Almodóvar (2011)

The Picture of Dorian Gray dir. Albert Lewin (1945)

The Uninvited dir. Lewis Allen (1944)

The Other Side of the Underneath dir. Jane Arden (1972)

Jeepers Creepers: Reborn dir. Timo Vuorensola (2022)

Terrifier 2 dir. Damien Leone (2022)

Ravenous dir. Antonia Bird (1999)

The Experiment dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel (2001)

Ganja & Hess dir. Bill Gunn (1973)

Def by Temptation dir. James Bond III (1990)

Eyes Without a Face dir. Georges Franju (1960)

Under the Shadow dir. Babak Anvari (2016)

Amsterdam dir. David O. Russell (2022)

Deadstream dir. Joseph Winter & Vanessa Winter (2022)

In My Skin by Marina de Van (2002)

Evolution dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović (2015)

Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness dir. Shimako Satō (1995)

Celia dir. Ann Turner (1989)

Censor dir. Prano Bailey-Bond (2021)

Halloween Ends dir. David Gordon Green (2022)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari dir. Robert Wiene (1920)

Black Adam dir. Jaume Collet-Serra (2022)

Trouble Every Day dir. Claire Denis (2001)

Eve's Bayou dir. Kasi Lemmons (1997)

Monster (aka Humanoids from the Deep) dir. Barbara Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakami (1980)

The Mafu Cage dir. Karen Arthur (1978)

Medusa: Queen of the Serpents dir. Matthew B.C. (2020)

Medusa dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira (2021)

Prey for the Devil dir. Daniel Stamm (2022)

It Follows dir. David Robert Mitchell (2014)

Amer dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (2009)

TV Episodes

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (2022)

Bob's Burgers - "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" (2022)

TV Series

Costume Quest (2019)

Castlevania - Seasons 3 & 4 (2020-2021)

[rabbittstewcomics]

Episode 355

Comic Reviews:

DC

Aquaman: Andromeda 1 by Ram V, Christian Ward

Dark Crisis 1 by Joshua Williamson, Daniel Sampere, Alejandro Sanchez

DC Pride 2022 by Devin Grayson, Ivan Cohen, Tini Howard, Greg Lockard, Alyssa Wong, Stephanie Phillips, Danny Lore, Stephanie Williams, Jadzia Axelrod, Dani Fernandez, Kevin Conroy, Travis Moore, Ted Brandt, Ro Stein, Nicole Maines, Lovern Kindzierski, W. Scott Forbes, J. Bone, P. Craig Russell, Lynne Yoshii, J.J. Kirby, Meghan Hetrick, Nick Robles, Brittney Williams, Jess Taylor, Evan Cagle, Zoe Thorogood, Samantha Dodge, Giulio Macaione, Rye Hickman, Tamra Bonvillain, Marissa Louise, Jeremy Lawson, Triona Farrell, Enrica Angiolini

Multiversity: Teen Justice 1 by 

Nubia: Queen of the Amazons 1 by Stephanie Williams, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, John Livesay, Alex Guimares

Poison Ivy 1 by G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara, Arif Prianto

Earth Prime Flash by Emily Palizzi, Jess Carson, David Lafuente, Pablo Collar, John Kalisz, Miquel Muerto

Marvel

Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War 1 by Christos Gage, Donald Mustard, Sergio Fernandez Davila, Sean Parsons, Edgar Delgado

Jane Foster and the Mighty Thor 1 by Torunn Gronbekk, Michael Dowling, J.P. Mayer, Jesus Aburtov, Marte Gracia, Matt Wilson, Nolan Woodard

Love Unlimited: Red Dagger and Ms. Marvel by Nadia Shammas, Natacha Bustos, Ian Herring

Marvel Meow 8 by Nao Fuji

Image

Skybound Presents: Afterschool 1 by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Greg Hinkle, Giovanna Niro

Dark Horse

Ward 1 by Cavan Scott, Andres Ponce

AfterShock

Astronaut Down 1 by James Patrick, Rubine, Valentina Briski

Where Starships Go To Die 1 by Mark Sable, Alberto Locatelli, Juancho

Ahoy

Justice Warriors 1 by Matt Bors, Ben Clarkson, Felipe Sobreiro

ComiXology

The Very Final Last Girls by Josh Eiserike, Z Crockett, Andres Barrero

Scout

Code 45 1 by Benjamin Hunting, Joe Ng

Archie

Archie and Friends: Summer Loving

Titan

Doctor Who Origins 1 by Jody Houser, Roberta Ingranata, Warnia Sahadewa

Dynamite

Elivira: Wrath of Con by David Avallone, Elvira, Dave Acosta

OGNs

Motherbridge: Seeds of Change by George Mann, Aleta Vidal

Grip of the Kombinat by Damon Gentry, Simon Roy

Girl and the Glim by India Swift, Michael Doig

Secrets of Camp Whatever v2: The Doors to Nowhere by Chris Grine

Slip by Marika McCoola, Aatmaja Pandya

Additional Reviews: Obi-Wan ep4, Ms. Marvel, American Horror Stories s1, Chip n Dale, Jurassic World Dominion, Many Deaths of Laila Starr

News: Joker 2, Ghostbusters animated series, Ezra Miller, Arcane series of prequel shorts on YouTube, more Kevin Smith He-Man, McKeever back at Marvel, Junji Ito anthology series on Netflix, Love Unlimited, Bruce Campbell Evil Dead/Sgt Rock crossover, Thunderbolts movie confirmed, Spot in Spider-Verse 2, Dark Horse gets Ghostbusters comic license, George Stacy cast for Spider-Verse 2

Am It Glenn?

Glenn meets Ram V

Trailers: Spiderhead, Prey, Sea Beast, Black Adam

Comics Countdown:

Oblivion Song 36 by Robert Kirkman Lorenzo De Felici, Annnalisa Leoni

Slip OGN by Marika McCoola, Aatmaja Pandya

Aquaman: Andromeda 1 by Ram V, Christian Ward

DC Pride 2022 by 

Secrets of Camp Whatever Vol 2: The Door to Nowhere by Chris Grine

Time Before Time 13 by Rory McConville, Ron Salas, Chris O'Halloran

Dark Knights of Steel 7 by Tom Taylor, Nathan Gooden, Arif Prianto

Twig 2 by Skottie Young, Kyle Strahm, Jean-Francois Beaulieu

That Texas Blood 14 by Chris Condon, Jacob Phillips, Pip Martin

Batman: Killing Time 4 by Tom King, David Marquez, Alejandro Sanchez

Check out this episode!

[barcarole]

Being tagged by the wonderful @la-femme-terrible, I couldn’t resist. So here it goes.

1. Nicknames: none 2. Gender: Female 3. Star sign: Libra 4. Height: 162cm 5. Time: 16:32 6. Birthday: October 22 7. Favorite bands: Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Wire, The Doors, The Jimi Hendrix Experience/Band of Gypsys, Television, Cream, Massive Attack, Wolf Parade, Beach House, Au Revoir Simone, Metric, Foals, Joy Division, The Kinks, Kronos Quartet, Buena Vista Social Club, The Radio Dept., Bill Evans Trio, Miles Davis Quintet, John Coltrane Quartet, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Oscar Peterson Trio, Weather Department… 8. Favorite solo artists: Leonard Cohen, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Big Joe Williams, George Brassens, Gábor Szabó, Billie Holiday, Sara Vaughan, Alice Coltrane, Nina Simone, Lotte Lenya, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Nico, Damia, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Buckley, Karen Dalton, Jeff Buckley, Coleman Hawkins, Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, Art Tatum, Wes Montgomery, Sidney Bechet, Osamu Kitajima, Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon, Ali Farka Touré, Naseer Shamma, Munir Bashir, Mulatu Astatke… 9. Song stuck in my head: Scriabin’s Vers la flamme 10. Last movie I watched: The Third Generation 11. Last show I watched: I do not watch any TV shows 12. When did I create my blog: 2010 13. What do I post: Glimpses into my inner world, or at least what appeases its yearnings 14. Last thing I googled: A companion to the works of Stefan George 15. Do I have any other blogs: No 16. Do I get asks: Yes (which I’m absolutely delighted in receiving), but I’m utterly dreadful at timely replies 17. Why I chose my url: I don’t recall if it was Chopin’s, Mendelssohn’s or Glazunov’s barcarolles, but I chose the alternative spelling since the former was already taken 18. Followers: 12618 19. Following: 96 20. Average hours of sleep: About 6 21. Lucky number: none, but I had an obsession with No. 5 as a child 22. Instruments: Flute 23. What am I wearing: This, only the skirt is a bit longer 24. Dream job: An editor at Mir iskusstva or a musician at the Vienna Court Opera during 1897-1907 25. Dream trip:  Marienbad, The Hebrides, Arles, Staraya Russa 26. Favorite food: Pasta dishes, paella, pita bread with tzatziki and olives, chocolate babka, pan baignat, tres leches, rocoto relleno, ají de gallina, melomakarona, kourabides, baklava, ma’amoul, apple pie, pistachio gelato, hot chocolate with panettone or stollen. 27. Nationality: Panamanian-Peruvian 28. Favorite song right now:  Midori No Asa (Bright Morning) - Kimio Eto 29. Favorite book(s): This may give you a somewhat vague answer. These days, I’m quite keen on Canciones Rusas by Nicanor Parra, Rodchenko’s Letters to and from Paris, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, Poems and Prose by Georg Trakl. 30. Current celebrity crush: I tend to unconsciously oscillate between Joseph Cotten and Dana Andrews as of late.

[germantownlegendssoccer]

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[musiciswindofmysoul]

agnes baltsa,

agnes obel,

agustín barrios-mangoré,

agustìn lara,

aklan akdağ,

alaturka records,

alice russell,

alper tuzcu,

amadeus [the electric string quartet],

amália rodrigues,

amy winehouse,

ana belén,

ana moura,

andreas baksa,

angela mc’cluskey, 

anna rf & imamyar hasanov,

anoushka shankar,

antonio martín y coll,

aphrodite’s child,

apocalyptica,

apurka,

argentina santos,

arisa,

arvo pärt,

aşa (asha),

aşık ömer erkan & cihadi özel,

astor piazzolla,

avam garde trio,

ayangil türk müziği orkestra ve korosu,

ayo,

ayşedeniz gökçin,

ayşenur kolivar,

bach,

barcelona gipsy klezmer orchestra,

bb king,

beethoven,

bellini,

bengi bağlama üçlüsü,

besa kokëdhima,

beth hart,

billie holiday,

birds on a wire (rosemary standley & dom la nena),

bizet,

bob dylan,

boccherini,

bonnie lee,

branford marsalis quartet,

bratsch,

brian hyland,

brooklyn funk essentials,

bulutsuzluk özlemi,

camel,

camille o’sullivan,

can kazaz,

carlos do carmo,

caro emerald,

cat stevens,

cem karaca,

cengiz özkan,

cevdet çağla,

charles aznavour,

chér,

chingon,

chopin,

cirque du soleil,

claude bolling, 

concha ‪buika,

cristina branco,

daniela andrade,

deep purple,

derya türkan,

dhafer youssef,

dikanda,

dire straits,

dolunay obruk,

dulce pontes,

dvořák,

eartha kitt,

edith piaf,

eileen khatchadourian,

eleni karaindrou (‪Ελένη Καραΐνδρο��‬),

elis dubaz & çağatay azat,

ella fitzgerald,

emerson, lake & palmer,

ennio morricone,

enrico macias,

ensemble galatia,

eric clapton,

erkan oğur & ismail hakkı demircioğlu,

ertan tekin & murat aydemir & çağ erçağ,

etni-ka,

etta james,

evanthia reboutsika (Ευανθία Ρεμπούτσικα),

eydie gormé,

əzizə mustafazadə,

fauré,

fausto amodei,

feist,

ferahnaz gündoğdu,

ferman akgül & kara güneş,

fikret kızılok,

fleetwood mac,

françoise hardy,

frank slay [and his orchestra],

fuat saka & maria farantouri,

gabriella ferri,

garou & daniel lavoie & patrick fiori,

gary moore,

genesis,

george dalaras,

gigliola cinquetti,

girls from mars,

gomidas vartabed,

grieg,

händel,

hani niroo,

hank williams jr,

hedonutopia,

herbie hancock,

hespèrion xxi,

homayoun shajarian,

ifigeneia ioannou (Ιφιγένεια Ιωάννου) & triantafyllos chalkias (Τριαντάφυλλος Χαλκιάς) & dimitris sfingos (Δημήτρης Σφίγγος),

ima,

imany,

incesaz,

indila,

inti illimani,

irit dekel & eldad zitrin,

isfar sarabski,

istvan sky kék ég & estas tonne & pablo arellano & indrė kuliešiūtė,

itzhak perlman,

ivan kupala (Иван Купала),

iyeoka okoawo,

izumi yukimura, 

jacques brel,

jan garbarek & anouar brahem & shaukat hussain,

janis joplin,

jason becker,

jeff beck,

jethro tull,

jihae,

jimmy barnes & joe bonamassa,

joe bonamassa,

joe satriani,

john dowland,

john lee hooker,

john themis & makoulis tsahouridis,

jøkleba,

josu zabalondo,

jülide özçelik,

kal cahoone,

kansas,

karl denver,

karsu dönmez & yuri honing,

kat frankie,

katie melua,

king crimson,

kiss,

kitaro,

klazz brothers & cuba percussion,

klez’roym,

kovacs,

kudsi erguner & erol parlak & pierre rigopoulos,

l'arpeggiata & christina pluhar,

lana del rey,

lara fabian,

lazer lloyd,

le trio joubran,

led zeppelin,

lehar,

lena chamamyan,

léo ferré,

leonard cohen,

leyla pınar,

lhasa de sela,

light in babylon,

liszt,

los moussakis,

louis armstrong,

luxus,

marc aryan,

marcello,

marco uccellini,

marianne faithfull,

marissa nadler,

marjan farsad,

mark eliyahu,

markéta irglová & glen hansard,

martha wainwright,

mary hopkin,

mehmet güreli,

melihat gülses,

melvin taylor & the slack band,

mercan dede,

mercedes sosa,

mesel,

metallica,

micatone,

mighty sam mc'clain,

milva,

mina,

mircan,

mississippi fred mc'dowell,

modern jazz quartet,

moğollar,

mohsen namjoo,

monteverdi,

mor karbasi,

morena son,

muammer ketencoğlu,

münip utandı,

muse,

nada,

nasser shamma,

naum petreski & dd synthesis,

neşet ertaş,

nick cave & warren ellis,

nick cave and the bad seeds,

nicola di bari,

nida ateş,

nihil piraye,

nina simone,

no blues,

no land,

noora noor,

odessa chen,

ofra haza & goran bregovic,

oh land,

okan murat öztürk,

omara portuondo,

ömer altuğ,

özlem özdil,

patti smith,

paulo bragança,

peter breiner and his chamber orchestra,

pierre akendengué & hughes de courson,

pink floyd,

pj harvey,

plain white t’s,

purcell,

quilapayún,

rachael yamagata,

rachmaninov,

radiohead,

rainbow,

rammstein,

renaud garcia-fons & derya türkan,

rəşid behbudov,

riff cohen,

rimsky-korsakov,

rosemary standley,

ruşen alkar,

saint-saëns‬,

salif keita,

santana,

schubert,

scorpions,

selda bağcan,

sema,

serdar ateşer,

şevki bey,

shahram nazeri,

şimdi ensemble,

simon and garfunkel,

sinéad o`connor,

şirin pancaroğlu & bora uymaz,

şirin pancaroğlu & meriç dönük & jarrod cagwin,

sister rosetta tharpe,

sita nursanti,

skip james,

smetana,

smokie,

snowy white,

soap kills,

sóley,

solveig slettahjell,

sona jobarteh,

sophie zelmani,

stacey kent,

stavros xarchakos & nikos dimitratos,

stephan micus,

sting,

sufle,

sümeyra çakır,

susie arioli swing band,

suzanne vega,

swapo,

symphonic theater of dreams,

talip özkan,

tanita tikaram,

tarantella,

tárrega,

tchaikovsky,

telemann,

the alan parsons project,

the animals,

the blues overdrive,

the cranberries,

the doors,

the modern jazz quartet,

the moody blues,

the pretty reckless,

the rolling stones,

the strawbs,

the sweet,

the yardbirds,

theodorakis,

timur selçuk,

tom jones,

tom waits,

tom yorke,

tori amos,

tracy chapman,

trees,

tülay german,

udi hrant,

ünol büyükgönenç,

vangelis,

vasiliki papageorgiou & hasan esen,

verdi,

victor jara,

villa-lobos,

violeta parra,

vivaldi,

white lion,

yaël naïm,

yannis markopoulos (Γιάννης Μαρκόπουλος),

yarınistan & vasiliki papageorgiou & taner öngür,

yaşar kurt,

yeni türkü,

yes,

yma sumac,

yngwie j. malmsteen,

yves montand,

zaz,

zbigniew preisner,

zeca (josé) afonso,

zekai dede efendi,

zeynep karababa,

zülfü livaneli.

[arabic-langblr]

can you suggest some modern arabic singers? i really dont mind if it's in MSA or a dialect, thanks!

Hey anon! How about both? ;)

I’ll link some of my favorite songs for you, some of them are old, sorry ;-; you can check their newest songs too, I will also mention some famous singers in case you’re interested.

Dialect

-Fairouz (Lebanese Dialect)* [note : listen to kan el zaman/ sahar al layali/ bent el shalabiya, all her songs are amazing tbh]

-Abdel Haleem Hafez (Egyptian Dialect) and Umm Kalthoum (Egyptian Dialect) are really famous singers and I think you think know about them, 

-Sami Clark (Lebanese Dialect) [song : lebanese/ song : Modern Standard Arabic]

-Nancy Ajram (Lebanese and Egyptian dialects) [song]

-Shireen Abdel Wahhab (Egyptian Dialect) [this song is so old but I love it]

-Omar Diab (Egyptian Dialect)

-Jadal (Jordanian Dialect- rock band) [song]

-Mashrou’ Layla (Lebanese dialect -rock band) [song]

-Elisa (Lebanesedialect) [song]

-Miryam Fares(Lebanese dialct/ Egyptian dialect) [song]

-George Wassouf(Syrian dialect/ he’s really famous but I’m not a big fan ^^;)

-Najwa Karam(Lebanese dialect) [song]

-Cheb Khaled (AlgerianDialect) [song]

-Shamma Hamdan (Emirati Dialect)

-Hussain Aljasmi (Emirati Dialect)

Modern Standard Arabic

-Humood Al Khadr (Modern Standard Arabic) [song]

-Kathem Al-Saher (Iraqi Dialect and a lot of ModernStandard Arabic) [song : Qooli ohebboka]

-Marcel Khalife (Modern Standard Arabic and Lebanese) [song]

-I don’t know if this would be interesting for you, butI’ll say it just in case : anime opening songs that are dubbed in Arabic aremostly in Modern Standard Arabic, you might want to give Rasha Rizq a try, shehas other non-anime songs but I think they’re in Syrian Dialect) [song, song 2]

If anyone wants to suggest more please do!

[drgeorgeshamma]

Evolution of Family Medicine: Transforming Healthcare & Expertise of Dr. George Shamma

The dynamic field of family medicine has evolved significantly, reshaping healthcare practices and patient-centered approaches. This article explores the evolution of family medicine, its impact on healthcare, and spotlights the expertise of Dr. George Shamma, a dedicated Family Medicine practitioner.

Historical Roots and Transformation

Family medicine has its origins deeply embedded in the pursuit of providing comprehensive and individualized care to patients. Initially conceived as a specialty focusing on acute illness management, it has undergone a remarkable transformation over the years, evolving into a discipline that prioritizes holistic patient well-being, preventive care, and community health promotion.

The historical roots of family medicine can be traced back to a time when there was a growing recognition of the need for healthcare that addressed not just specific illnesses but also the overall health and welfare of individuals and families. It emerged as a response to the limitations of traditional medical practices that often focused on treating isolated symptoms rather than considering the patient's broader health needs.

As family medicine evolved, it underwent a significant shift in its core philosophy. It expanded beyond the treatment of immediate health concerns to incorporate a more comprehensive approach that encompasses various dimensions of health. This transformation emphasized the importance of preventive care, early intervention, and the identification of underlying factors contributing to illness.

Moreover, family medicine embraced the concept of community health promotion, recognizing the influence of social and environmental factors on individual well-being. It aimed to not only treat illnesses but also to proactively engage in initiatives that fostered healthier communities.

Over time, family medicine practitioners, including professionals like Dr. George Shamma, have continued to uphold these foundational principles while adapting to the changing landscape of healthcare. Their commitment to providing comprehensive, patient-centered care reflects the evolution of family medicine from its historical roots to a discipline that values holistic well-being, preventive measures, and community-oriented healthcare initiatives.

Holistic Approach to Patient Care

The evolution within family medicine represents a paradigm shift towards holistic patient care, acknowledging that well-being extends beyond mere physical health. This comprehensive approach integrates various facets of health, including mental well-being, lifestyle factors, and the impact of social determinants on an individual's health.

Embracing this holistic perspective enables family physicians to delve deeper into understanding and addressing the root causes of health issues. By considering the interconnectedness of physical and mental health, lifestyle choices, socio-economic factors, and environmental influences, practitioners like Dr. George Shamma can offer more comprehensive and personalized care.

This patient-centric approach fosters stronger doctor-patient relationships, as it encourages open communication and a deeper understanding of the patient's needs. Dr. Shamma's commitment to this holistic paradigm ensures that patients feel heard, valued, and actively engaged in their care plans.

Furthermore, by addressing all aspects of health, this approach contributes significantly to enhancing overall health outcomes. It allows for early identification and intervention of potential health risks, promotes preventive measures, and supports patients in achieving and maintaining optimal well-being. This emphasis on holistic care not only treats ailments but also empowers individuals to lead healthier lives, fostering a positive impact on their long-term health outcomes.

Integration of Technology in Family Medicine

The integration of technology has brought about a revolutionary transformation within the realm of family medicine, significantly enhancing the quality and accessibility of healthcare services. These technological advancements have ushered in a new era, introducing electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine platforms, and a myriad of digital tools that have reshaped the way healthcare is delivered and managed.

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have emerged as a cornerstone of modern family medicine practices. They streamline the storage and retrieval of patient information, enabling healthcare providers like Dr. George Shamma to access comprehensive patient histories, lab results, medication records, and treatment plans seamlessly. This accessibility to centralized patient data promotes informed decision-making, reduces errors, and facilitates better coordination among healthcare professionals involved in a patient's care.

Furthermore, various digital tools and mobile applications have been instrumental in empowering patients to actively participate in their healthcare management. These tools include apps for monitoring vital signs, medication adherence, fitness tracking, and health education resources. Patients can monitor their health metrics, track progress, and communicate effectively with their healthcare providers, fostering a more collaborative and engaged approach to managing their well-being.

The integration of technology in family medicine has not only improved accessibility but has also bolstered efficiency in healthcare delivery. It has streamlined administrative tasks, reduced paperwork, and optimized workflows, allowing healthcare providers to allocate more time towards direct patient care and personalized interactions.

Collaborative Care Models

Collaborative care models in family medicine mark a significant shift towards a team-based approach, fostering synergy among diverse healthcare professionals. These models unite family physicians, specialists, nurses, and counselors, pooling their expertise to provide patients with comprehensive and cohesive care. By leveraging the collective knowledge and skills of this multidisciplinary team, collaborative care ensures a holistic assessment of patient needs.

The focal point of these models lies in coordinated care, where professionals work in tandem, sharing insights and developing tailored care plans. Family physicians serve as central coordinators, facilitating communication and orchestrating interventions across specialties. This approach enables a deeper understanding of patient conditions, enhancing treatment efficacy and promoting preventive measures. Emphasizing communication and collaboration, these models not only improve patient outcomes but also streamline healthcare delivery, fostering a patient-centric environment that prioritizes holistic well-being. Dr. George Shamma's dedication to collaborative care underscores the effectiveness of this approach in optimizing patient management within family medicine.

Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH)

PCMH models have gained prominence within family medicine, offering centralized healthcare hubs where patients access a range of services tailored to their individual needs. This model prioritizes preventive care, chronic disease management, and patient engagement for enhanced quality of care.

Emphasizing on Dr. George Shamma's Expertise

Dr. George Shamma stands as a testament to excellence in Family Medicine. With nine years of experience, his journey began at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, showcasing dedication to community health through volunteer clinical work in Dayton, OH.

Education and Training

Dr. Shamma's comprehensive education led to the attainment of his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree in 2014. His residency program at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences equipped him with extensive expertise and hands-on experience in Family Medicine.

Dedication to Quality Healthcare

Dr. George Shamma's unwavering dedication to delivering quality healthcare epitomizes a patient-centric ethos. His approach revolves around personalized care, where each patient receives tailored attention, acknowledging their unique medical needs and preferences. Dr. Shamma's commitment extends beyond mere treatment; he actively advocates for preventive health measures, emphasizing the importance of proactive steps in maintaining well-being.

His expertise is a testament to the significance of fostering enduring patient relationships. Dr. Shamma prioritizes open communication, ensuring patients feel heard and involved in their healthcare journey. By cultivating trust and rapport, he empowers patients to take an active role in managing their health.

Moreover, Dr. Shamma's holistic approach considers not only the immediate medical concerns but also the broader aspects impacting overall well-being. He recognizes the interplay between physical, mental, and emotional health, striving to address these facets comprehensively. His dedication to quality healthcare transcends conventional treatment, embodying a commitment to the holistic welfare of his patients.

Conclusion

The evolution of family medicine has reshaped healthcare practices, emphasizing holistic care, technological integration, and collaborative models. Dr. George Shamma exemplifies the expertise and dedication inherent in Family Medicine, embodying quality care and patient-centric approaches.

This article discusses the evolution of family medicine, technology's role, collaborative care models, and highlights Dr. George Shamma's expertise in Family Medicine. It explores historical roots, holistic care approaches, and PCMH models, presenting a comprehensive overview of how family medicine impacts healthcare.

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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

🍉 Want to add a bit more diversity to your TBR? Consider reading one of these queer books by Palestinian authors for Pride Month!

🏳️‍🌈 Fiction 🍉 The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🍉 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat 🍉 Belladonna - Anbara Salam 🍉 A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar 🍉 Muneera and the Moon - 🍉 Guapa - Saleem Haddad 🍉 The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose 🍉 The Philistine - Leila Marshy 🍉 Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam 🍉 From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman

🏳️‍🌈 Graphic Novels 🍉 Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger 🍉 Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas 🍉 Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad 🍉 Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh

🏳️‍🌈 Non-Fiction/Memoirs 🍉 Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah 🍉 Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar 🍉 This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya 🍉 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

🏳️‍🌈 Poetry 🍉 To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha 🍉 The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq 🍉 Birthright - George Abraham 🍉 The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan 🍉 Blood Orange - Yaffa AS 🍉 Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi 🍉 Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi 🍉 Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo

🍉 None of us are free until all of us are free. 🏳️‍🌈

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A powerful project

WORDS: LOUISE KIMPTON-NYE; PHOTO: PAUL STAFFORD

This autumn London will host a major exhibition of paintings by acclaimed Syrian artist Sara Shamma.

The work is the culmination of a project exploring the psychological impact of modern slavery and the meaning of survival and recovery.

It has been inspired by the horrific experiences of women and girls who have been kidnapped by Isis in Syria and Iraq, displayed at slave markets, exhibited on platforms in front of hundreds of men and sold to the highest bidder.

As a King’s College London artist in residence for 2019, Sara has worked with the university’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) and human rights charity the Helen Bamber Foundation to highlight the plight of enslaved people and press for change.

In August I met Sara at her East Dulwich home to see her work in progress and find out more about the project.

Arriving on the doorstep, I am warmly welcomed into Sara’s studio, which is full of her paintings and sketches and the materials and tools of an artist’s craft.

An entire wall is taken up by a huge and arresting work depicting girls and women of different ages, some in motion, others still. Sara has just finished this painting – the scent of fresh oil paint hangs in the air. Called 4 Ages of the Woman, it will form the centrepiece of her upcoming exhibition.

For me, 4 Ages of the Woman feels very positive and celebratory of women. It is a powerful statement that women are here. We are in the world, living our lives and taking up space, growing up and growing old.

In sharp contrast to this painting – and essential to its impact – are what Sara refers to as “the eyes works”, a series of small sketches of partial faces with detailed, hyperreal eyes painted in oils. Filmy and bloodshot, the eyes convey a certain lasciviousness and sense of threat.

Sara explains: “I wanted to paint women – and also the eyes of men – because when I was a teenager, when I used to walk down the street in Damascus, if there was a man walking towards me, I could tell from his eyes that he was going to touch me on a certain area of my body. So I immediately changed my path. This used to be normal. Eyes tell you everything.

“I started to think about these [ex-trafficked] women. How do they feel about anyone who is watching them? So that’s why I thought about working a lot with the eyes.”

Sara draws parallels between the kidnapping and selling of Yazidi women and girls to the highest bidder with some current marriage practices.

“I know this is still happening now, even in some sophisticated societies, like early marriage – the father is selling his daughter, basically. He gets some money and she gets married.

“And in [adult] marriage where a woman marries a man only because he has a lot of money, even though she doesn’t like him. So it’s like selling herself.”

Does Sara see herself as a feminist? “I am a feminist, of course,” she says. “I think every [woman] should love herself and every man should love himself. So maybe I’m a feminist in that way. That’s why I do a lot of self-portraiture.”

A graduate of Damascus University’s faculty of fine arts, Sara has exhibited her work around the world and has won various international awards. In 2016 she came to live in London, having been awarded an Exceptional Talent Visa.

After visiting many areas of the capital, she and her husband chose East Dulwich as their home. “I love this area,” she says, “because it has a very natural feeling. You feel part of a community, you know the neighbours and everyone who passes by.

“It’s very green and this is very important for me because I come from Damascus, which is a very crowded city and very urban and grey.”

Sara’s art is unique. Hyperreal depictions of people and objects are layered with transparent faces and figures whose presence seems fleeting.

A distinctive use of reflective surfaces and glass, and thin white vertical lines scratched out of the paint, create an unsettling distance between subject and viewer.

As a young artist in Damascus, Sara honed her technique by copying scores of Old Masters. She started studying art intensively from the age of 14, using books and photographs of art to inform her work.

“I studied each artist’s style and technique; Georges de La Tour, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck; and many Impressionists, including Renoir and Mary Cassatt”, she enthuses.

“I did this for years and years. I used to sell them, because people love copies, and as a student this was very convenient for me. I think that was the main thing that taught me art – not university, but copying Old Masters.”

So how did she develop her unique style? “I didn’t try to develop it”, she says. “It came naturally, I just worked instinctively. I still work instinctively and I don’t plan my work. The most important thing to me is that I look at a finished painting and I see something, or it surprises me in some way – maybe the colour, the expression of the face, the technique – that’s what matters to me.”

A distinctive feature of Sara’s paintings is the depiction of objects. “I use very many objects; balloons, organs, objects from the studio, sometimes a toy from my children’s room”, she says. “It doesn’t have a specific meaning or symbol because I love paintings to be kind of meaningless. When something is meaningless it has all the meaning... it might move you, it might shake you.

“I love my paintings to touch the subconscious of the viewer. I think whenever anything touches your subconscious it really changes something in you. If I prepare my work, or decide what the painting will be or give it meaning in any way, I think it would be flatter and will not touch [the] subconscious.”

Her approach may be instinctive, but an intense period of research takes place before she starts painting.

Working closely with Dr Siân Oram – a lecturer in women’s mental health at the IoPPN – and other experts in the field of modern slavery, Sara has read many research papers and transcripts of interviews with ex-trafficked women. She has also met survivors of trafficking and listened to their harrowing testimonies.

This research feeds directly into her paintings which, she stresses, are not intended to be illustrative. “I don’t think that art should be illustrative”, she says. “It’s like a reflection of feelings, experience and – again and again – the subconscious mind.”

Meeting with the women has had a profound effect on Sara. “I couldn’t sleep and I started to imagine voices, noises, smells, pictures. It’s very ugly, it’s like you’re exploring a very different world.

“Afterwards, when I enter inside the work with all my senses, I get a bit depressed. But that’s fine.”

I wonder if the process is cathartic for the women in some way. “It is highly important, yes”, Sara says.

“At first I thought maybe they don’t want to talk, maybe they’re afraid or don’t want to repeat [their experiences] or have flashbacks. But they were very happy to talk about everything.”

Sara has a longstanding interest in the psychological effects of suffering and an urge to “comment [on] and challenge the status quo”. Previous projects exploring this theme include World Civil War Portraits (London, 2015), Diaspora (Dubai, 2014) and Q (London, 2013).

Her residency at King’s is aiming to provide a means through which survivors of modern-day slavery can process their painful experiences, in addition to raising awareness of the issue. Findings from her time there will identify new research questions and develop collaborative relationships with organisations working to support those who have been forced into slavery.

More than 40 million people are estimated to be enslaved around the world today. Many are women and children. The trauma they suffer as a result of violence and loss of liberty has a devastating and enduring effect on their lives and those of their families and communities.

As Sara says: “I hope that my responses to, and engagement with survivors will help raise awareness and understanding of this very live issue.”

Sara Shamma: Modern Slavery will run until November 22 at Arcade at Bush House, King’s College London, the Strand. Curated by Kathleen Soriano, the exhibition will be accompanied by a book of essays and insights into the project by Sara Shamma, Dr Siân Oram and other leading experts in the field of modern slavery

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Stevie Wonder & Miles Davis Drummer Munyungo Visits Jackie's Groove

"Seasoned percussionist Munyungo Jackson possesses an ever-increasing collection of instruments with which to execute his craft. In his over 50 years of playing, he has performed with Greats such as Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Herbie Hancock, Dianne Reeves, Karen Briggs, Kenny Loggins, the Zawinal Syndicate, George Howard, Ronnie Laws, The Temptations, Four Tops, The Supremes, and dozens of others, including numerous ethnic music and dance troupes. Munyungo was born in Los Angeles, California and is the nephew of the legendary jazz, pop, and blues singer, Capital Records Nellie Lutcher. In addition to his concerts, tours and recording work, Munyungo is one of the Co-Producers of the Watts Towers Day Of The Drum Festival, which brings together master drummers from all over the world to present their expertise, and the Watts Towers Jazz Festival, which presents Great Jazz musicians performing music from many different musical genres." - Jackie Bertone Munyungo is currently working with Stevie Wonder, Lao Tizer, Naseer Shamma, and the Miles Electric Band which will be performing in Japan in April at the Billboard Live! Enjoy a compilation of songs he's played on from the 70's up to the mid 90's below at Spotify. www.munyungo.com

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No existe un programa estatal para garantizar la estancia de las familias que vinieron entre diciembre y febrero desde Alepo, Siria. El idioma y la soledad son las otras barreras. Desde hace menos de cinco meses, tres familias de origen sirio viven en Jesús María. Llegaron a nuestra zona por la generosidad de las familias Cresta, Velasco, y Poblete, quienes recibieron a los Alsuliman, Shammas, y Obari, respectivamente. De esas tres familias, la Obari ya anunció su intención de retornar a su Alepo natal, después de conocerse que otros “paisanos” afincados en Pilar decidieron volverse, pese a que el escenario es el de una posguerra. Entre el gobierno que encabeza Bashar al Assad desde 2000 y una facción de Estado Islámico (también conocido como Isis y que nacieron tras separarse de Al Qaeda) se desató una guerra que terminó con la conquista de varias ciudades sirias, entre ellas Alepo, por parte de los terroristas. El gobierno de Al Assad recién pudo recuperar esos territorios entre 2016 y este año. Por lo tanto, los exiliados sirios que viven en nuestra región venían huyendo de los invasores y no de su gobierno, aunque este último sea cuestionado por la Liga Árabe y por los Estados Unidos y otros aliados. ¿Por qué Argentina? En Alepo, el trabajo pastoral de un sacerdote tucumano devino en una intermediación solidaria: conectar a familias sirias que estaban cansadas de la gerra que llevaba casi seis años con familias argentinas que pudiesen recibirlos en sus hogares por un tiempo hasta que logren independizarse. Al no tratarse de un programa oficial del gobierno nacional, el costo de los traslados fue asumido casi en su totalidad por las familias que los recibían y con aportes que esas familias conseguían de otras. Para las familias sirias, que son extremadamente sociales, la acogida de las familias argentinas resultó buena y mala. Buena porque los sacaba del horror de la guerra, pero mala porque los tenía dispersos por todo el territorio nacional y sin posibilidades de mantener su espíritu social. Por citar un ejemplo, hace poco arribó otra familia que es amiga de los Alsuliman y fueron a parar a Mendoza. Visitarse entre ellos será muy difícil por la distancia y por el costo del traslado. A ellos, que se juntan todo el tiempo, diariamente, que comparten cafés y charlas, la soledad les resulta amarga. Cómo independizarse Está claro que, sin trabajo permanente y estable, apartados de sus afectos y amistades, la estancia de las familias sirias de nuestra zona será dificilísima. La voluntad de quienes los recibieron sigue firme, pero los recursos que insume ayudarlos son onerosos. Hablando mal y pronto: van a necesitar que otros ayuden a ayudar. Hasta para ir a Córdoba los domingos y reunirse con otros “paisanos” y compartir su fe es difícil porque trasladarse hasta allá también insume un costo. Hoy, por ejemplo, Tayseer Shammas trabaja en el estacionamiento medido de Jesús María y junto a su mujer, Rima, están vendiendo comida árabe a través de una página de facebook. Tienen cuatro hijos en edad escolar que no deben trabajar. Sostenerse económicamente es casi imposible. De los Alsuliman, la mamá, Randa, hace trabajos de costuras, pero lo que ella hace circula boca a boca y no todos saben eso. De los hijos, el más pequeño Rogeh va a la escuela y los más grandes, Ibrahim y George, tienen trabajo dos días y una pasantía laboral, respectivamente. Con esos pocos ingresos tienen que pagar el alquiler de la casita en que viven y todos los servicios. Urgen manos solidarias, intervención estatal, programas de ayuda. Hasta hacen falta personas que los ayuden a progresar en el aprendizaje del idioma español, conversando.