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Major general histories of the Jews in Australia are Hilary L. Rubinstein and William D. Rubinstein, The Jews in Australia: A Thematic History (2 vols., 1991) and Suzanne D. Rutland, Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia (2001; first ed. 1988).
"Confronting reality: anti-Semitism in Australia today." Jewish Political Studies Review (2004): 89-103. Levy, Richard S., ed. Antisemitism: A historical encyclopaedia of prejudice and persecution (2 vol ABC-CLIO, 2005) vol 1 pp 45–48. Rutland, Suzanne D. "Antisemitism in Australia". The Routledge History of Antisemitism (Routledge 77–85).
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".
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 ...
Increasingly, Tasmania has been the choice for many Australians when choosing a place in Australia to live. The same is said about Australia's Jewish population. Due to low prices in Tasmania, as compared to larger Australian cities like Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and Canberra, many Jews have decided to settle in Tasmania. [4] [5]
Jewish museums in Australia (2 P) S. Former synagogues in Australia (4 P) Pages in category "Jewish Australian history" The following 14 pages are in this category ...
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.
The Australian Jewish Historical Society was founded in 1938 in Sydney. The first president was Percy J. Marks.At the first business meeting of the Society, the then-president of the Royal Australian Historical Society K. R. Cramp expressed the view that the chief object of the Society should be the encouragement of individual research.