PROLOGUE In November 1949, family, friends and fellow congregants joined my dear parents,Harry and Millie Isaacson in celebrating the barmitzvah of me, their youngest child, Avraham Ben-Zion, in Johannesburg’s Berea synagogue. The Sidrah (Torah portion) of the week was Chayei Sarah, the section commencing with the death of the Biblical matriarch Sarah, and I, theContinue reading “The Book Preview : Prologue and Chapter 1”