History of the Jews in Switzerland in the city — more than in any other city in the world. Whereas the communities of Basel and Zürich are traditionally shaped by large Ashkenazi communities, Geneva also hosts an important Sephardic community. Its main synagogue, the Synagogue Hekhal Haness, is considered to be the most important Sephardic synagogue in the whole of Europe. A ring with a Menorah depiction found in Augusta Raurica (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland) in 2001 attests to Hebrew presence in Germania Superior. The Encyclopaedia Judaica mentioned a first documentation in 1214. In the Middle Ages, as in many places in Europe, they frequently suffered persecution, for
Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa the Nasionale Opvoedkundige Uitgewery (National Educational Publishing House) in Cape Town, under their trading name, Nasou. Nasou (est. 1963) was an educational publishing subsidiary of media conglomerate Naspers. The editor-in-chief of the first seven volumes of the encyclopaedia was Dirk Jacobus Potgieter, who had previously co-edited the fifth edition of "Afrikaans for English-speaking Students" (1949) and an Afrikaans/English bilingual dictionary for Juta & Co. When Nasou reused some of the encyclopaedia's material for a book called "Animal Life in Southern Africa" (1971), Potgieter was a compiler and co-editor on the project, along with fellow "SESA" editor P. C. du Plessis