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The Great Synagogue of Sydney.. The history of Jews in Australia traces the history of Australian Jews from the British settlement of Australia commencing in 1788. Though Europeans had visited Australia before 1788, there is no evidence of any Jewish sailors among the crew.
[216] [217] In January 2025, following Anthony Albanese's claim that his government did all that it could to combat the issue of antisemitism in Australia, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the peak Australian Jewish organisational body, criticised the Prime Minister for listing his achievements during a crisis where police action have ...
The Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne was opened by Rabbi Ronald Lubofski in 1982, and now has approximately 20,000 objects. [36] Then in 1992, the opening of the Sydney Jewish Museum, dedicated to the Holocaust and Australian Jewish history and located in the historic Maccabean Hall, was heralded as "a landmark event".
Gordon Greenwood, Australia: A Social and Political History, Angus and Robertson 1955. Hughes, Robert, The Fatal Shore, London, Pan, 1988. A Pictorial History of Australia, Rex & Thea Rienits, Hamlyn Publishing group, 1969. Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station, Allen and Unwin, 2008. ISBN 9781741751499
Pages in category "Jewish Australian history" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Steinberg was a skilled emissary, and based his campaign on the officially declared need by Australia to populate northern Australia. [ 4 ] By early 1940, he won the support of churches, [ 5 ] leading newspapers, many prominent political and public figures (including Western Australian Premier John Willcock ) and a number of Jewish leaders, [ 3 ...
Once labeled her country’s worst female serial killer and most hated woman, an Australian mother’s two-decade-old murder convictions of her four children were overturned.
Esther Abrahams (born c. 1767 or 1771 – died 26 August 1846) was a Londoner sent to Australia as a convict on the First Fleet. She was de facto wife of George Johnston, who was for six months acting Governor of New South Wales after leading the Rum Rebellion. They later married legally, in 1814.