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Digital add-on to the book

This website supplements the book Mavericks Inside the Tent with many additional photographs and texts, as well as useful source documents.

‘Manoim’s book, meticulously researched and compulsively readable

(a rarity with institutional histories) fills a glaring gap in local Jewish historiography

[and] sheds light on a movement ... which has been greatly under-valued in terms of

the impact it made on the Jewish religious and communal scene.’

David Saks, Associate Director of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies and editor of Jewish Affairs

The need to research a long-neglected aspect of South African Jewish history

Historic moments, people, events and places, in colour, from around the country

Key figures behind the project to record Progressive/Reform history in South Africa

An exhibition at the South African Jewish Museum, and a documentary

A number of chapters did not make it into the final book. Read them here

Key documents from historic archives, shown in their original formats

MAVERICKS INSIDE THE TENT