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- ↑ Louis Kreiner Cape Town Jewish Cemeteries Maintenance Board. Retrieved on 26 December 2023
- 1 2 Jerusalem Day in Cape Town Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 20 May 1980
- ↑ Cape Town: Culture and Community Reform Judaism. Retrieved on 26 December 2023
- ↑ Silberhaft, Moshe (2012). The Travelling Rabbi: My African Tribe. Johannesburg: Jacana. p. 12. ISBN 9781431405985.
- ↑ Cape Town's New Mayor South African Jewish News. 7 September 1983
- ↑ Sol Kreiner is new Deputy Mayor of Cape Town South African Jewish News. 1981
- ↑ The tale of South Africa’s first Jewish school South African Jewish Report. 5 October 2020
- ↑ “Had its history been different, South Africa would probably have been one of the most visited places in the world.” University of Stellenbosch. December 2022
