Boerejode: The forgotten Jews who fought for the Boers

Boerejode: The forgotten Jews who fought for the Boers

This article was first published by The Common SenseDavid Saks, writing in The Common Sense, revisits a little-known chapter of the Anglo-Boer War: roughly 300 Jews who fought on the Boer side, first documented by Chief Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz in the 1940s and later expanded into Saks's 2010 book, Boerejode. Scattered rather than grouped into distinct units, these soldiers appear across nearly every theatre of the war, from the sieges to the conc…