Jewish Life Vol V

397 C arolina development. He was joined by his brother M Friedmann, his wife and daughter Lena who married Charles Shapiro on 14 January 1914 in Carolina. Mr and Mrs J Gordon and family were living in Carolina by 1913 as were Myer Joseph and Lena Silberman when their daughter Annie was engaged to Solomon Friedman. Other residents at the time included Mr L Hodes, Mr MF Lurie, Mr S Barlin, Mr E Eliasov, Mr M Freedman, Mr J Marx, Mr B Mulinsky and Mr J Suchowitzky. T he C ongregation References to the Carolina Hebrew Congregation are made in a cash-book register for 1913 and 1914. In 1916 the congregation was represented at the South African Jewish Congress held in Johannesburg. Donations by the congregation to the South African Jewish Orphanage (Arcadia) are recorded in its 1915 and 1918 annual reports. However, there is no record of the establishment of a formal congregation. Most children in the Carolina community received their Jewish education from the Ermelo Hebrew Congregation and bnei mitzvah were celebrated in Ermelo. Some children went to Breyten once a week, as Rev Bloch from Ermelo taught there on a weekly basis. Kosher meat was obtained from Ermelo.There was never a Jewish burial ground in Carolina, and local Jews were usually buried in Ermelo. In 1935 Rabbi E Zimmermann of Johannesburg included Carolina in his visit to towns in the Northern Transvaal and the Eastern Transvaal. In 1938 Dr SD Samuel ordered a copy of Dr Herrman’s History of the Jews in South Africa from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), and presented it to the Carolina Library. P rominent J ews Captain Aron Friedmann was a stalwart of the Carolina Jewish community from 1914 to 1928. He provided religious services in his home on Shabbat and the Yamim Noraim . He bought a S efer Torah and built an Ark in which to house it. He also blew the shofar on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur , and gave cheder classes.When he and his family left Carolina for Cape Town in 1928, he donated the S efer Torah to the Carolina Jewish community, whose members were by then attending services with the Ermelo Hebrew The barque ‘Elizabeth’ captained by Aron Friedmann, c1901. (From ‘South Africa’s Ancient Mariner’ ) Captain Aron Friedmann who sailed ‘Elizabeth’ c1901. (From South Africa’s Ancient Mariner , by his son David Friedmann)