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Tuesday 28 March 2023

Sowden, Dora Leah


SOWDEN, Dora Leah. M.A. Journalist. Born Russia and came to South Africa 1922. 1922. Educated at Dominican Convent, Germiston, and University of the Witwatersrand. Music and Film Critic of the "Rand Daily Mail." Committee member (former Hon. Secretary) South African P.E.N. Centre. Contributor to British and American music journals. Author of several chapters on S.A. Jewish history in "The Jews in South Africa" (ed. Saron and Hotz) 1955; and "The Jewish Contribution to South African Literature" in "The Jew in Africa" (1945). Married Lewis Sowden. Has now settled in Israel.




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