South African Jewish Museum

This guide to the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town follows the crossing from Lithuanian shtetls to Cape Town's docks, using the symbolic drawbridge into the modern galleries as its throughline. You'll hear about Sydney Brenner, a cobbler's son from Lithuania who sat in university lectures at fifteen, and the life-sized shtetl rebuilt inside the museum's walls. It traces how one immigrant community moved from tailors and peddlers to professors and scientists.