The making of a South African Jewish community on the Rand*

* This text formed ch. 3 of my Ph.D. diss., “Building a Home and Community: Jews in Johannesburg, 1886–1914” (University of London, 1985), with a few cuts by the general editors and updated footnotes. For my reflections on this work, contextualized in Shirli Gilbert, “Scholarship on South African Jews: State of the Field”, see my “Writing History about the Ties that bind: Reflections”, both in this volume.