Professor Allie A Dubb

Academic Background and Appointments

Born in South Africa, 1930.

Graduated BA, 1955, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; BAHons (Anthropology), 1956, MA (Anthropology),1963, and Ph.D. (Sociology), 1973 - all at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

In 1956-7 served as volunteer in Nachal.

From 1957 to 1962, was a research officer first at Rhodes University’s Institute for Social Research and then at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Lusaka.

From 1963-74 lectured in Departments of Anthropology at Rhodes (2 years), and then at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1974 appointed Associate Professor and Director of the African Studies Institute at ‘Wits’.

In 1978 immigrated to Israel. Since then have held the following positions:

1978-80

Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Family and Community Health, Medical Faculty, The Technion, Haifa

1981-82

Visiting Professor in Dept. of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, USA

1982-87

Director, Project for Jewish Educational Statistics, Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics, Inst. of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University

1988-91

Research Associate, Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa (while resident in Israel)

1992-4

Professor of Jewish Civilization in Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Director Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town

1978-80/ 1982-4/ 1994 à

External Teacher (moreh min hachutz) in African Anthropology, Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel-Aviv Univ.

1995 à

External Teacher, Overseas Students Program, Tel Aviv University

 

Research Experience

Since 1957, have been involved in a large number of research projects both as a single researcher, and as leader or member of a team. The projects include in-depth anthropological studies, sociological surveys of various kinds, demographic analyses and applied research. Some major projects, not reflected in the list of publications, are cited below.

1976-8

Patients, nurses, and doctors in a hospital serving Blacks in Soweto.

1977-8

Evaluation of experimental primary health care clinics in Soweto.

1988-9

Sample survey of former South Africans living in Israel. Part of three- country study of South African Jewish emigres.

1997à

Study of socio-cultural factors relevant to HIV/AIDS prevention in Kenya. (Project leaders: Dr Galia Sabar-Friedman, TAU and Dr Sobbie Mulindi, University of Nairobi)

 

Publications

Major publications only are listed below. Minor publications, book reviews, editorial appointments and articles in non-professional publications are omitted.

Articles, and Books

1962

"Tribalism in the African Church" in A. A. Dubb (ed.), The Multitribal Society, Rhodes-Livi\ngstone Institute, Lusaka.

1966

"Red and School: A Quantitative Approach", Africa, 36, 3, London

1970

"Jewish-Gentile Intermarriage in a South African City", African Studies, 29, Johannesburg

1972

"Changes in Ethnic Attitudes of Jewish Youth in Johannesburg", Jewish Social Studies, 34, 1, New York

1973

“African Attitudes in Town: The Search for Precision", with L. Melamed and M. Majodina, African Studies, Johannesburg.

1973

"Retrospect and Prospect in the Growth of the Jewish Community in South Africa" in U. O. Schmelz, P. Glikson and S. DellaPergola (eds.), Papers in Jewish Demography, World Union of Jewish Studies and Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University

1974

"The Impact of the City" in W. D. Hammond-Tooke (ed.), The Bantu- Speaking Peoples of Southern Africa, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.
[Partially reproduced in A. Paul Hare, Gerd Wiendieck and
Max H. Von Broembsen (eds.), South Africa: Sociological Analysis, Oxford University Press, Cape Town

1975

"Johannesburg and Jerusalem--An Enquiry into the Problem of ‘Dual Loyalty' Among South African Jews" in M Jagendorf and A Shinan (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies, World Union of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.

1976

Community of the Saved: An African Revivalist Church in the East Cape, Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg. (Based on MA thesis)

1977

Jewish South Africans: A Sociological View of the Johannesburg Community, Occasional Paper 21, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. (Based on Ph.D. thesis)

1977

"Profile of a Population: Some Social and Demographic Trends in South African Jewry" in Leon Feldberg (ed.), South African Jewry, Alex White, Johannesburg

1977

"Some Socio-Economic Aspects of the South African Jewish Population According to the Official Census of 1970", (with M. Cohen), in U.O. Schmelz, P. Glikson and S. DellaPergola (eds.), Papers in Jewish Demography, Hebrew University

1978

"Duodenal Ulcer and working-class Mobility in an African Population in South Africa" (with Isidor Segal et al), British Medical Journal, (1978),1.

1984

"Demographic Picture" in Marcus Arkin (ed.) South African Jewry: A Contemporary Survey, Oxford University Press, Cape Town

1985

"The Census of Jewish Schools in the Diaspora - Some Methodological Problems and Initial Findings" (with Nitza Genuth in Hebrew) in S. Almog (ed.), Yahadut Zemanenu: Contemporary Jewry - A Research Annual, vol. (1984), The Magnes Press, Hebrew University

1988

"Jewish Schools in the Diaspora: a Statistical Description" in Janet Aviad (ed.), Studies in Jewish Education, vol. III, Magnes Press, Hebrew Univ.

1988

"South African Jewry: A Socio-demographic Profile" (with Sergio DellaPergola) in D.Singer (ed.), American Jewish Yearbook 1988, Jewish Publication Society and American Jewish Committee, Philadelphia and New York

1989

"Emigration, Population Change and Jewish Education in South Africa in the Eighties" in U.O.Schmelz and S.DellaPergola (eds.), Papers in Jewish Demography, 1985, Hebrew University.

1992-5

"South Africa: country report" (with M.Shain) in D.Singer, R.Seldin (eds.), American Jewish Year Book, 1992 (and each year till 1995)

1992

"Jews in a post-apartheid society", (in Hebrew), Gesher, vol. 124, World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem

1994

The Jewish Population of South Africa: The 1991 Sociodemographic Survey, Jewish Publications: South Africa, Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town.

 

Reports

Several research reports have been prepared since 1961. Most were commissioned, many were specific and problem-oriented; some were published widely, others were for limited distribution. Sponsors included government, industry, commerce, finance, the South African Jewish community, IDF, the Jewish Agency, Project Renewal.

Fields of inquiry included demography, attitude to various issues, industrial relations, Jewish education, medical anthropology/sociology. One major study relating to Jewish education, involved almost all the Jewish communities in the free world; all others were conducted either in Israel or South Africa.

 

To make contact

Postal Address

P O Box 25070, 61250 Tel Aviv, Israel

Phone:

972-3-676 8034(h); 972-3-640 9450(w); 972-9-760 2918(fax)

Work Address:

450 d Gillman Bldng., Tel Aviv University

e-mail:

dubb@post.tau.ac.il

 

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