The first Jewish Museum in South Africa was opened here today in the new headquarters of the South African Board of Jewish Deputies. Chief Rabbi Louis I. Rabinowitz, who officiated at the opening ceremony, compared it “not unfavorably” with the museum at Jews College in London and predicted that it would prove a “cultural stimulus” to Jews in Johannesburg.
1. Maisels, president of the Board of Deputies, said that the decision to open a museum had originated with a gift of Jewish ceremonial silver objects received from the Jewish Reconstruction Foundation, which had recovered many Jewish ceremonial objects from Germany after the war.
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