Under African Skies: Jewish Life in Rhodesia
Once thriving, now nearly gone—the Jewish community of Rhodesia leaves behind echoes of faith, culture, and courage.
In the heart of Southern Africa, far from Europe’s shtetls and Mediterranean shores, an unlikely chapter of Jewish history unfolded. Here, in Rhodesia’s sun-scorched plains, families who had fled pogroms, persecution, and war forged a community that was at once fragile and unshakable—its survival tested by fire, politics, and exile.