The Jews in Sydney

With the arrival of around 16 Jewish convicts on board the First Fleet in 1788, a rudimentary Jewish community was present from the beginning of European settlement in Sydney. However, it took time before formal communal structures were created. The first developments related to burial, because correct interment of the dead is one of the most important religious imperatives a Jewish community must observe. From 1817, Jews in Sydney came together to perform Jewish burials. In 1832, a section of Devonshire Street Cemetery (where Central Station stands today) was consecrated as Jewish

The Jewish Community In New South Wales 1914-1939

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The Impact of COVID-19: A Comparative Study of the Melbourne and Sydney Jewish Communities

Compared to other parts of the Jewish world, Australia has handled the COVID-19 situation well, going into full lockdown early, with fewer deaths on a population basis. At the same time, there were significant differences in terms of the impact of the second wave of the pandemic in Melbourne and Sydney. This qualitative study examines how these two major Jewish centers, where 84% of the Jews in Australia reside, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It will discuss the policies that were put in place to assist those in need, with a range of different activities, including Jewish schools, going on-line, leading to many more opportunities to access news and participate in learning sessions. This study will highlight the similarities and differences between the two centers in terms of their organizational structures, which developed out of different historical migration patterns, and how these impacted on the current responses to the pandemic. The Sydney Jewish community has a centralized system of fundraising, planning and management in contrast to Melbourne, where the challenging situation created the need for better coordination. This was spearheaded by Jewish Care Victoria, which subsequently argued for a more permanent system of coordinated fundraising, planning and management for Melbourne Jewry. This article, which examines these developments, is based on oral interviews, written communications, community and media commentary, as well as historical material. As the Melbourne-based editor of The Australian Jewish News, Zeddy Lawrence, commented, "the community did not decline but thrived," indicating its "resourcefulness," but it remains to be seen if this has any long-term impact on the community structure of Melbourne Jewry

Creating Transformation: South African Jews in Australia

Since the 1960s Australian Jewry has doubled in size to 117,000. This increase has been due to migration rather than natural increase with the main migration groups being South Africans, Russians, and Israelis. Of the three, the South Africans have had the most significant impact on Australian Jewry—one could argue that this has been transformative in Sydney and Perth. They have contributed to the religious and educational life of the communities as well as assuming significant community leadership roles in all the major Jewish Centres where they settled. This results from their strong Jewish identity. A comparative study undertaken by Rutland and Gariano in 2004–2005 demonstrated that each specific migrant group came from a different past with a different Jewish form of identification, the diachronic axis, which impacted on their integration into Jewish life in Australia, the synchronic axis as proposed by Sagi in 2016. The South Africans identified Jewishly in a traditional religious manner. This article will argue that this was an outcome of the South African context during the apartheid period, and that, with their stronger Jewish identity and support for the Jewish-day- school movement, they not only integrated into the new Australian-Jewish context; they also changed that context

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The JDC at 100 A Century of Humanitarianism

The history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century.Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Medical Welfare in Interwar Europe: The Collaboration between JDC and OZE-TOZ Organizations -- 2. JDC in Minsk: The Parameters and Predicaments of Aiding Soviet Jews in the Interwar Years -- 3. The First American Organization in Soviet Russa: JDC and Relief in the Ukraine, 1920-1923 -- 4. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Programs in the USSR, 1941-1948: A Complicated Partnership -- 5. DORSA and the Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 -- 6. Laura Margolis and JDC Efforts in Cuba and Shanghai: Sustaining Refugees in a Time of Catastrophe -- 7. "Joint Fund Teheran": JDC and the Jewish Lifeline to Central Asia -- 8. Destination Australia: The Roles of Charles Jordan and Walter Brand -- 9. Imported from the United States? The Centralization of Private Jewish Welfare after the Holocaust: The Cases of Belgium and France -- 10. Behind the Iron Curtain: The Communist Government in Poland and Its Attitude toward the Joint's Activities, 1944-1989 -- 11. Years of Survival: JDC in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957 -- 12. JDC Activity in Hungary, 1945-1953 -- 13. JDC and Soviet Jews in Austria and Italy -- Contributors -- IndexThe history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries