AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
June 19961996 Volume XIII PartPart2 2
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Editor's Introduction ...... 169169
The Honourable Maurice Salom: An Anglo-Jewish Gentleman and a South Australian Pioneer Margot Salom ...... 173 173
Sir Julian Salomons, 1835-1909:1835-1909: A Brilliant Lawyer and Parliamentarian M.Z. Forbes ...... 191
The Turbulent History of the Central Synagogue George Keen ...... 226
History of the NSW Friends of the Hebrew University Alan K Milston ...... 264
Dr Fanny Reading v Smith's Weekly Morris S. Ochert ...... 308
BOOK REVIEWS:
There Was No Farewell by Marian Pretzel Helen Bersten ...... 343
Pages of History: A Century of the Australian Jewish Press by Suzanne Rutland Dennis Bluth ...... 344
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtnay Ruth Mandelberg ...... 346 168 Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal
Far From the Promised Land: Being Jewish in New Zealand by Ann Beaglehole and Hal Levine Irene Rothenberg ...... 347
Addenda and Errata ...... 349
Speech at the Official Opening of the Society's Rooms: Mandelbaum House Helen Bersten ...... 351
President's Report ...... 353
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 356
New Members ...... 357
Donations Received as Result of Special AppealAppeal...... 358
Contributors ...... 359
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November 1996 Vol. XIII PartPart 3
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EdEditor'sitor's Introduction..Introduction ...... 365 1.I. Early Melbourne and the Benjamin Brothers Rodney Benjamin ...... 367 2.2. The Life of Jacob Frankel (1812-1899) ...... 395
3. Shipboard diary of Henry Lippmann, 18571857 KurtKurt Lippmann ...... 413 4. Australian Zionism:Zionism: ideas and debate in the pre-Balfour-Balfour period Bernard Hyams ...... 416 5. "A Noble Sight to See":See": Philo-SemiticPhilo-Semitic rresponsesesponses in late 19th and early 2020thth century Australia to Jewish crises overseas HiHilarylary L. Rubinstein ...... 424 6. The rescue of thethe TaftfamilyfromTaft family from the Ukraine in 1921-221921- 22 RonaRonaldld Taft ...... 463 7.7. My Father My MotherMother Lou Jedwab ...... 474777 8. Two pioneers of AustraAustralian lian Jewish histohistoriography:riography: Alfred Newton Super and Hirsch Munz MalcolmMalcolm J. TurnbullTurnbull ...... 486 9.9. Nikolaus Pevsner and Melbourne: a 1930s resettlement scheme at the University of Melbourne forfor academics flfleeingeeing Nazi Germany George TibbiTibbitsts ...... 500 10. Some reflections on the DemidenkoDemidenko affair Philip Mendes ...... 509509 11.11 . Jubilee of Kfar Kfar Monash, 1946-961946- 96 Elizabeth DuneDurre...... 518 12. 100 Years Ago Lorraine FreemanFreeman...... 521 Book Reviews 1.1. W.D. RubinsteinRubinstein...... 529 Andrew Moore, The Right Road Jost, Totaro & Tyshing, The Demidenko File Natalie J. Prior, The Demidenko Diary Andrew Riemer, The Demidenko Debate Robert Manne, The Culture of Forgetting
2. Malcolm J. Turnbull...... Turnbull ...... 532 Amirah Inglis, The Hammer & Sickle and the Washing Up Tommy Tycho, The Tommy Tycho Story Hedi Fixel, Hobart Hebrew Congregation W.D.W.D. Rubinstein, Judaism in Australia Stephen Levine, A Standard for the People W.D.Rubinstein, A History of the Jews in the EnglishEnglish-Speaking-Speaking World: Great Britain Shirley Fitzgerald & Garry Wotherspoon, Minorities: Cultural Diversity in Sydney Joseph Fox, The Seventh Son of the Seventh Son Mark Verstandig, I Rest my Case Maurie Hoffman, Keep Yelling: a Survivor's Testimony Keila Pruzanski, Sunshine and Shadows Lionel Fredman, Newcastle Synagogue 70th anniversary
3. Judith O'Donnell..O'Donnell ...... 538 Judy Cassab, The Judy Cassab Diaries
4. lsidorIsidor SolomonSolomon...... 539 Kurt Lippmann, Our0 ur Lippmann Family Gloria Frydman, What a Life: a Biography of Paul Morawetz
5. Freda FreibergFreiberg...... 541 Bitter Herbs & Honey (film)
Other Material 1.I. Obituary: Henry ShawShaw...... 542 2. Report to MembersMembers...... 543 3. New Members ...... 544
4. ContributorsContributors...... 545
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June 1997 Volume XIII PartPart4 4
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Editor's Introduction ...... 549
Darling Downs Jewry and the Toowoomba Hebrew Congregation by Morris S. Ochert OAM ...... 552
Jews in Rural New South Wales Helen Bersten ...... 596
Jacob Glass and the Cinema Robert Parkinson ...... 635
Lincoln, The Descendants of Nathan Ben Elijah and Australia: A New Appraisal Anthony Jospeh ...... 641
The Emergence of Ultra-OrthodoxUltra-Orthodox Judaism in Post-WarPost-War Australia Suzanne D. Rutland ...... 650
Some Historic Houses, Formerly the Proud Residences of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Jewish Families in Sydney Louise Rosenberg ...... 663
An Enthusiastic Amateur of the Arts: Eliezer Levi Montefiore in Melbourne 1853-711853-71 Nicholas Draffin ...... 687 548 AustAustralianralian Jewish Historical Society Journal
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Fiftieth Gate by Mark Raphael Baker Marian Pretzel ...... 706
Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia, by Suzanne D. Rutland Sol Encel ...... 709
Stelle E Strisce E Stella Di David Nella Croce Del Sud (Stars and Stripes and the Star of David in the Southern Cross) by Rosanna Rosini Helen Bersten ...... 710
A Glance over an old Left Shoulder: Harry Stein Remembers Sophie Caplan ...... 715
Correspondence ...... 718
Errata ...... 721
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 722
New Members ...... 723
Benefactions in Memory ...... 724
Contributors ...... 725
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Editor's Introduction ...... 1
1. Spyer familyfamily correspondence Alan Cohn (transcriber) ...... 3
2. Divergent experiencesexperiences on the frontier:frontier: Jews and Aborigines in early Colonial Australia Paul R. Bartrop ...... 23
3. Australia'sAustralia '.s first Zionist: Governor George Gawler Howard A. Freeman ...... 38
4. The Blumbergs of Blumbergville Morris S. Ochert ...... 45
5. Reactions of the Australian Catholic press to the Dreyfus case Colin Thornton-Smith-Smith ...... 57
6. Early manifestations of Holocaust denial in Australia Hilary L. Rubinstein ...... 93
7. FelixAdalbertFelix Adalbert Behrend and mathematics in Camp 7, Hay, 1940-41 Hans Lausch ...... 110
8. The search for the relatives of Eric MandlMandi William B. White ...... 120120
9. Remembering the Thornbury shulshut Max Lasky ...... 126
10. Teenage memories of Israel, Zionism and Palestinian refugees Philip Mendes ...... 130130
11. Recollections of an editor W.D. Rubinstein ...... 136136
12.12. 100 Years Ago Lorraine Freeman ...... 148 Book Reviews
1. W.D. Rubinstein ...... 158158 Moshe Ajzenbud, 60 years of "Bund" in Melbourne Abraham Biderman, The world of my past Rodney Gouttman, Bondi in the Sinai HenkHenle Overberg, Theodor Herzl,Herz!, The Jews' State
2. Paul R. Bartrop ...... 164 W.D.W.D. Rubinstein, The myth of rescue
3. Ursula Flicker ...... 168 Mira Szalmuk, From tragedy to triumph
4. Philip Mendes ...... 168 Norman Rothfield, Many paths to peace Dennis Altman, Defying gravity: a political life
5. Rodney Gouttman ...... 173 Eliyahu Honig, Zionism in Australia Glenn Gordon, Guardians of Zion David Carter, A career in writing:writing: Judah Waten
6. Judith O'Donnell ...... 178178 Henry Lew, In search of Derwent Lees Jan Sardi, Shine (screenplay) Beverley Eley, The book of David Gillian Helfgott, Love you to bits and pieces
77.. MalcolmMalcolmJ. J. Turnbull ...... 180 Mark Baker (ed),( ed), History on the edge Sylvia Kirwan, No time forfor tears Philip Opas, Throw away my wig Philip Opas, Here's to the next man that dies Australian dictionary of biography vol. 1414 A portion of praise, Festschrift to honour John S.S. Levi Westerly vol. 41, Shmooze Downunder
Other Material
1. Letters to the editor ...... 186186
2.2. Report to members ...... 189
3. New members ...... 191191
4. Notes on contributors ...... 192
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June 1998 Volume XIV Part2Part 2
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Editor's Introduction ...... 197
The Law of Loving Kindness AnneAnne AndgelAndgel ...... 199 199
Israel in Egypt Down Under: The First Synagogues in Australia RobertRobert S.S . Merrillees ...... 260
The Little Shule of Moshe Moskowitch Morris S. OchertOchert ...... 284
Lord Casey and the 1939 White Paper: How an Australian British Minister of State Fought to Keep the Jews out of Palestine LLeanneeanne Piggott ...... 288
Social Phenomena in Jewish Australia and the Development of Jewish Education Bryan ConyConyerer ...... 322
Reflections on Professor W.D. Rubenstein's Views as Editor Sol EncelEncel ...... 342
BOOK REVIEWSREVIEWS:: Reluctant Refuge by Glen Palmer Suzanne D. Rutland ...... 345
Orphans of the Empire by Alan Gill Louise Rosenberg ...... 346
Outwitting Hitler; Surviving Stalin by Arthur Spindler Sylvia Rosenblum ...... 349 196196 Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal
J.F.S.J .F.S. The History of the Jews Free School, London Since 17321732 by Gerry Black Helen Bersten ...... 350
Letters to the Editor ...... 352
Errata ...... 355 355
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 364
New Members ...... 365
Contributors ...... 366
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Editor's Introduction....Introduction ...... 373
A tribute ...... 375
1.I. Peretz HirschbeinHirschbein's '.s travel pictures: impressions of New Zealand and Australia Serge Liberman (translator) ...... 377
2. Australia'sAustralia '.s first Shtar Chalitzah? Beverley Davis...... Davis ...... 404
3. MMyy mothersmother's folk in Russia,Russia, China, Australia, Canada and the United States of America Morris S.S. Ochert ...... 406
4. The Beginnings of the Brighton Hebrew Congregation Malcolm Morris ...... 417
5. 'A gross discourtesydiscourtesy to His Majesty':Majesty': the ccampaignampaign within Australia, 1930-31, against Sir Isaac IsaaIsaacs'cs' appointment as GovernorGovernor-General-General Hilary L. Rubinstein ...... 425
6. The Jewish Council, Communism, and the State of Israel Philip N. Mendes ...... 459
7. Mendel Cohen (1838-1909) Robert C. Sheezel ...... 468
8. 'Spare the rod and spoilspoil the child'! Howard A. Freeman ...... 489
9. A synagoguesynagogue in Coburg Laurie Burchell ...... 492
10. Jews in the 19961996 Australian census W.D. Rubinstein....Rubinstein ...... 495
11. The Reverend Isidore Myers (1856-1922) Malcolm JJ.. Turnbull ...... 508
12. Alien registrations in Western Australia during World War One Beverley Davis ...... 529 Book Reviews
1. Philip N. Mendes Review essay: Bono Wiener remembered ...... 533
2. W.D. Rubinstein ...... 538 Rodney Benjamin, 'A seriousserious influx of Jews' Robert Manne, The way we live now Bernard Hyams, The history of the Australian Zionist movement
3. Rodney Gouttman ...... 545 Suzanne D. Rutland & Sophie Caplan, With one voice
4. Judith O'Donnell ...... 547 David Carter (ed), Judah Waten Margaret Helfgott with Tom Gross, Out of tune ......
5. Isidor Solomon ...... 550 Rudolph Brasch,Brasch, Reminiscences
6. Malcolm J.J. Turnbull ...... 551 Bernard Hyams, Surviving Don Garden, Theodore Fink Short notices11otices ...... 554 Inga Clendinnen, Reading the HolocaustHolocaust Barbara Falk,Falk, Caught in a snare Univ. of Melbourne, Genocide Doba-NechaDoba-Necha Cukierman, A guardian angel Bryan Cheyette & Laura Marcus (eds), Modernity, culture and 'the Jew' Aubrey Newman & Stephen Massil (eds), Patterns of migration ...... Livia Kathe Wittmann, Interactive identities JudJudithith SamuelSamuel,, Jews in Bristol Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, Patterns and images AJHS Victoria, The Australian Jewish experience, a Colloquium CorilleCori lie Fraser,Fraser, Come to dazzledazzle ... Joseph Aron, History of the JNF of Australia Anna Rosner Blay, Sister Sister Judith Buckrich, The Montefiore Homes:Homes: 150 Years of CareCare
Other Material
1.1. Letters to the editor ...... 558 2. Obituary: Lila Stone ...... 562 3.3. Report to members ...... 563 4.4. New members ...... 564 5. Notes on contributors ...... ,...... 565
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June 19991999 Volume XIV Part 4
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Editor's Introduction ...... 569 Lewis Lyons: A Jewish Emancipist Eric Riddler ...... 572 What did they think of the Jews: The 1859 Victorian Parliament Bernard Hyams ...... 585 Sarah Bernhardt 'The'The Divine' and her Australian Connection: A Review Essay Serge Liberman ...... 591 The Most Distinguished Life of Sir Bernard Sugerman: A Great Australian Judge Morris Forbes ...... 608 'Bondi`Bondi oder Bankstown?' Morris S. Ochert ...... 636 Memoirs of Early Israel: A diary of events from the turn of the century Sara Stern ...... 673 The establishment of the Newcastle Hebrew Congregation {1905-1910)(1905-1910) Glenn Gordon ...... 697 Between two stools: the rise & fall of a small Jewry's newsletter Rodney Gouttman ...... 717 The Internet and Australian Jewry: 1992-1998 Benseon Apple ...... 723 568 Australian Jewish Historical Society
The Albury/Wodonga Menora Jewish Group Louise Rosenberg ...... 737 The Tale of Two Cities Peter Wise ...... 747 Obituary:Obituary: Jack Epstein Alan Milston ...... 756
BOOK REVIEWS The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney by Grace Karskens Helen Bersten ...... 757 Cosmopolitan Sydney by Jock Collins and Antonio Castillo Helen Bersten ...... 758 Mosaic:Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations by Diane Armstrong Sophie Caplan ...... 759 Shades of Belonging: Conversations with Australian Jews by Neer Korn Raquel Hasofer ...... 760 Seventy Chequered Years:Years: An Autobiography by Gershie Epstein Sophie Caplan ...... 762
Errata:Errata: Additions to 'Some Historic Houses ...'.. .' Volume XIII, Part 4,4 , p.663p .663 and 'A'A RRichich Heritage -— Colleen Rich and her Family Circle in AustraliaAustralia since 1853'1853' LouiseL ou i se RosenbergR o sen berg ...... 766
CorrectionsCorrections toto Corrections:Corrections: The Two Abraham Cohens,Cohens, Vol.13, ppt.4,t .4, p.624 ...... 768
GenealogicalGenealogical Enquiries ...... 769
New MembersMembers ...... 770
ContributorsContributors ...... 772
Opinions expressed are those of the authors,authors, and do not reflect the official position of the Society Book Reviews
The Self-Made Anthropologist (A life of A.P. Elkin) by Tigger Wise Helen Bersten …………………………………………………………………………………..…….67
Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews In American Life and Thought by Stephen J Whitfield L.E. Fredman ……………………………………………………………………………………………68
Phillip Blashki - A Victorian Patriarch by Gael Hammer Ruth Faerber ……………………………………………………………………………………………69 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
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Editor's Introduction ......
1 Dial)Diary, of ana11 ironmonger'sironmonger's assistant Patricia Corbett (transcriber)(transcriber) ...... 3
2 HeadstonesHeadsto11es in thetire JewishJell'islr cemeterycemetery at Toowong,Toowong, Brisbane MorrisMo1Tis S. OchertOchert ...... 28
3 TheTire threetlrree state manifestomanifestoss in supportsupport of the Ki►nberleyKimberley Scheme,Scheme, 1939-40: texttextss anda11d signatoriessig11atories Hilary L. RubinsteinRubinstein ...... 35
4 A grandgra11d vision:vision: Henry Philip HarrisHarris and ththee lristo,historyy of Burlington Terrace GiselleGiselle RobertsRoberts ...... 60
5 The Sam Cohen affair:c1ffair: a conspiracy? RodneyRodney Gouttman ...... 69
6 YomYorn HashoahHashoah (Holocaust(Holocaust Day)Day) conmzemorationsco111111e111orations in Melbourne,Melbourne. PerthPe rth and SydneySwiney 1945-1996:1945- 1996: debates concerningconcerni11g the date,date, scope, locatio11location,, nature and rituals Judith Berman ...... 80
7 Intermarriageintermarriage statistics in thetire 1991 anda11d 19961996 census:ce11sus: somesome anomaliesm10111alies ofo,( the data W.D. RubinsteinRubinstein ...... 95
8 The East Melbourne 1ni11ist1)'ministry Malcolm J. Turnbull ...... 98
9 Australian JJewishewish dissentdisse/ll on Israel:Israel: a historyhistory of the Australian Jewish DemocraticDemocratic Society (Part( Part 1)1) Philip N. Mendes ...... 111177
10IO ThThee diaries of Sidney Sidney AlgernonAlger11011 Marks Judith HopHopkinskins ...... 139 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
June 2000 Volume XV Part 2
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Editor's Introduction ...... 189
The Public and Political Life of SirS ir Saul Samuel Lionel Fredman ...... 192
The Brief but eventful Life of Lewis Flegeltaub Morris S. Ochert ...... 199
A Pioneer Jewish Woman -— Gwen Green Louise Rosenberg ...... 216
The Randwick Coogee Jewish Social Club Neville Cohen ...... 222
From Germany & Austria to Australia: experiences of Jewish women refugees in the 1930s Astrid Mignon Kirchhof ...... 237
Exile to Shanghai and finding a home in Australia, 1939-1947 Peter Witting ...... 252
Other Recollections of a Stormy Time Shlomo Etzioni (Sol Woodman) ...... 270
Who speaks for the Jewish Community? Ben Phillips ...... 272
Obituaries:Obituaries: M.H. (Harry) Kellerman Raymond Apple ...... 297
Ronald Lubofsky Raymond Apple ...... 299 188 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS Enough Already: An Anthology of Australian-JewishAustralian-Jewish Writing edited by Alan Jacobs Helen Bersten ...... 301
The Search for an Australian Paradise by Bill Hornadge Helen Bersten ...... 302
Being George and Liking it! Reflections on the life and work of George Dreyfus on his 70th birthday Fred Blanks ...... 303
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 306
New Members ...... 308
Contributors ...... 309
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November 2000 Vol. XV Part 3
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Editor's Introduction ...... 313
1 Solomon and Cashmore: chain migrationmigration. andan.cl early JewishJewish settlementselflemen.t in Australia Trevor S. Cohen ...... 31315 5
2 Before the refugees: foreignforeign immigration policypolicy and Australia in the 1920s1920s Paul R. Bartrop ...... 368
3 Guilt that they survived: memories of Jewish Jewish women who arrived in Australia in the late 1930s1930s Michele Langfield with Jane Yule ...... 386
4 'To uplift humanity': the life of John Dias Victor IsaacsIsaacs ...... 399
5 The pioneer: a pen portrait of Wolfe BardasBardas Yetta Rothberg ...... 425
6 MichaelMichael Cashmore:Cashmore: a thumbnail sketch of a passenger on the 'Conine!''Clonmel' David Cohen ...... 430
7 From wealthwealth to penury:penury : Morris CollmannCollmann. 1828-19021828- 1902 HelenHelen Cohn ...... 436
8 Women in early Australian ZionismZion.ism Bernard K. HyamsHyams ...... 441
9 The BlochBloch family in rural Tasmania Rodney Benjamin,Benjamin, OAM ...... 450
10I O Australian JJewishewish dissentdissent on Israel:Israel: a history of the AustralianAustralian JewishJewish DemocraticDemocratic SocietySociety (Part(Part 2) Philip N. Mendes ...... 459
11I I To right a historical wrong ...... 475 Beverley Davis,Davis, OAM Book ReviewsReviews
1 MalcolmMalcolm]. J. Turnbull ...... 477 MarioMarlo L. Newton,Newton, MakingMaking a difference:difference: a history of the National Council of Jewish Jewish Women of Australia Margot F. Salom,Salom, In sure dwellings: a journey from expulsion to assimilation Paul R. Bartrop, Surviving the camps: unity in adversity during the HolocaustHolocaust JohnJohn Ritchie (ed.),(ed.), Australian DictionaryDictionary of Biography, Biography, vol. 1515
2 William D.D. Rubinstein ...... 480 Jon StrattonStratton,, Coming out Jewish:Jewish: constructingconstructing ambivalent identities StephenStephen Levine,Levine, ThThee New Zealand JewishJewish community Mark Braham,Braham, StrongerStronger thanthan fiction:fiction: JewsJews and Christians are natural allies
Other Material
1 Obituary ...... 486 2 Letter to the editoreditor ...... 493 3 Report to membersmembers ...... 495 4 New members ...... 496 5 Notes onon contributorscontributors ...... 497
OpinionsOpinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflectreflect an officialofficial position of the Society.Society.
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June 2001 Volume XV Part 4
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Editorial ...... 501
The Federation of the Commonwealth and the Role of Australian Jews Morris Forbes ...... 506
What did they think of the Jews?: The early years of the Sydney Bulletin Bernard Hyams ...... 547
Dorothy IvyIvy" " Struckoil" Heiser Morris S. Ochert ...... 564
Rev Adolph T Chodowski Marcelle Marks ...... 572
Randwick-Coogee Jewish Education Board Neville Cohen ...... 590
Eastern Suburbs Hebrew School Parents & Citizens Association Marcelle Marks ...... 618
Shmuel Halevy Gorr -— 'My'My Times be in Thy HandHand'' [ben[hen Ezra] Louise Rosenberg ...... 628
Perth Jewry's Memorial Cemetery David Mossenson ...... 661
The Ballarat Hebrew Congregation and the Spielvogel Register Lee A.A . M.M . Simmons ...... 667 500 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS Caged: A Story of Jewish Resistance by David J.J . Landau. Helen Bersten ...... 678
Book of RuthRuth- — Memoirs of a Child Survivor by Ruth Rack. Judy Shapira ...... 680
"The Devil's Greed" by Harry J. Fransman. Judy Shapira ...... 681 Stronger than Fiction -— Jews and Christians are Natural Allies by Mark Braham. Louise Rosenberg ...... 683
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 686
New Members ...... 687
Contributors ...... 688
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2001 Volume XVI Part 1
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Editor’s Introduction…………………………………………………………...... 1
100 Years Ago Compiled By Lorraine Freeman……………………………………………………………………………………………………..3
A Brief History of the Foundation of the Federation of Australian Jewish Welfare Societies Rodney Benjamin OAM……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….17
I Am Just a No-Where Man Rodney Gouttman……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….24
Revisiting the Writings of Charles Price Rodney Benjamin OAM……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….33
Impressions of A Visit by Jacob Pat, 1956 Translated from Yiddish by Serge Liberman…………………………………………………………………………………48
Chaim Shoshkes, 1961 Translated from Yiddish by Serge Liberman…………………………………………………………………………………57
Berl Frimer, 1965 Translated from Yiddish by Serge Liberman…………………………………………………………………………………60
Adelaide-Israel Heritage: A Tribute to Adelheid Traub Helen Tversky-Steiner………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….62
Footprints "The Footprints of a Stranger Showed Us Where We Had Lost Our Way." Anon. Bernard Boas OAM………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………67
Schmatte Trade in Flinders Lane Leon Haskin ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..79
Memories of the Third St Kilda Stan Marks………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….83
About Annie Yetta Rothberg-Allen…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..92
From Jewish Nationalism to Left-Wing Activism: Memories of a Radical Childhood Philip Mendes………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………97
A Hundred Years of Establishing Synagogues in Victoria (Port Phillip) 1839-1939 John Cohen………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..105
BOOK REVIEWS
ORACHE CHAIM - THE HISTORY OF THE CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE By Melinda Jones & Ilana Lutman (State Library of NSW in Association with Chapters 8 Pty Ltd George Keen………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………108
WAR CRIMINALS WELCOME: AUSTRALIA, A SANCTUARY FOR FUGUTIVE WAR CRIMINALS SINCE 1945 By Mark Aarons (Black Inc. Melbourne, 2001) Philip Mendes……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………111
THE FIVE WALKING STICKS By Henry Lew (AMC Publications, Melbourne, 2001) Rodney Gouttman……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..113
AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORY ESSAY COMPETITION…………………….………………115 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
June 2002 Volume XVI Part 2
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Editorial ...... 157
Australia's First Synagogue at Bridge Street, Sydney Morris Forbes ...... 159
The Life and Times of some Jewish Pioneers of Yass Township Steve Hart ...... 174
Percy Marks -— A A Jewish Renaissance Man Yehuda.Yehuda Feher with Marianne Dacy ...... 191
General Sir John Monash -— Lest We Forget Morris Ochert ...... 227
The Sydney Child Survivors'Survivors' Group: The historical path to a separate identity Amelia Amber Klein ...... 241
Jewish Women and Jewish Adult Education: the Australian Experience Suzanne D. Rutland ...... 258
BOOK REVIEWS Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities, 1945-2000 by Judith E. Berman W.DW.D.. Rubinstein ...... 273
The Voyage of their Life by Diane Armstrong Suzanne DD.. Rutland ...... 275 156 Australian Jewish Historical SocietySociety
Australian Genesis by John Levi and George Bergman Judy Shapira ...... 277
Eshkolot Raymond Apple ...... 279
Errata ...... 281
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 282
New Members ...... 284
Contributors ...... 285
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Editor’s introduction ...... 289
1 Four Jewish convict women Judith Sackville-O’Donnell ...... 292
2 Discovering an architectural model of the St Kilda Synagogue in America’s Midwest Ephraim Ehrmann ...... 302
3 A mystery tour John Levi ...... 309
4 Castles in Caulfield Miriam Kuna ...... 310
5 A passage from India – autobiography Reuben Aaron ...... 320
6 Makor Jewish Community Library: The early years Ros Collins ...... 328
7 Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Museum: Beginnings and evolution Stan Marks ...... 341
8 The history of B’nai B’rith in Australia Garry Fabian ...... 351
9 Growing up in the Bund in Melbourne David Burstin ...... 359
10 Denying the Jewish experience of oppression: JAZA & the 3CR controversy Philip Mendes ...... 368
11 The history of Hineni Ilan Bloch ...... 383
12 100 years ago – Victoria 1902 Lorraine Freeman ...... 389 Book reviews 1 Rodney Gouttman ...... 406 Alan Collins, A Promised Land?,University of Queensland Press Helen Gardner, My Mother’s Child, Makor Jewish Community Library Rodney A B Benjamin, A Full House, Makor Jewish Community Library Freda Searle, Memory’s Wings and Apron Strings, Makor Jewish Community Library
2 Leanne Piggott ...... 410 Chanan Reich, Australia and Israel – An Ambiguous Relationship, Melbourne University Press
3 Helen Gershoni ...... 412 Kathy Grinblat (ed.), Children of the Shadows – Voices of the Second Generation, University of Western Australia Press
4 Bernard Rechter ...... 415 Andrew Strum (ed.), Eshkolot: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky, Hybrid Publishers Other material 1 Obituary ...... 419 2 Report to members ...... 422 3 Notes on contributors ...... 425
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June 2003 Volume XVI PartPar t 4
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EditorialEditorial ...... 429
The Anglo-BoeAnglo-Boerr War 1899-1902 -An— An Australian Jewish Perspective Russell Stern ...... 431
Rabbi David Isaac Freedman; An Enduring Legacy Nate ZuZusmansman ...... 495
The Patterns and Levels of Jewish Identity in Australia Morris Forbes ...... 502
Finding a Jewish Identity in the Antipodes Ruth Wirth ...... 536
Arrival and Absorption in Australia HugHugh·h RassabyRassaby ...... 554
Max Lebanon (Mordechai Hevroni) -— Teacher and Patentee Morris SS.. OcherOchertt anda nd Miriam LebanonLebanon GavGavarina rin ...... 563563
An Antipodean Scholar:Scholar: Rabbi Dr Harry Freedman Suzanne DD.. Rutland ...... 570
BOOK REVIEWS Secrets and Spies; The Harbin Files By MaraMar a Moustafine Helen Bersten ...... 585
A Look Back Over My Shoulder By GarryGarr y Fabian F abian Judy ShapiraShapira ...... 587 428 Australian Jewish Historical Society
Just Think it Never Happened By Paulette Goldberg Sophie Caplan ...... 589
A Course of History: Monash Country Club, 1931-20011931-2001 By Colin Tatz Suzanne DD.. Rutland ...... 591
The History of the South Head Synagogue By Mark Braham Louise Rosenberg ...... 593
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 559696
New Members ...... 597
Contributors ...... 598
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Editor’s introduction ...... 3 Rosetta Joseph: The bell, her husband and his money Howard T. Nathan ...... 5
How I spent my fourteenth year Phyllis Slutzkin ...... 19
Recollections of Eretz Israel Devorah Erskine ...... 26
Memories of Melbourne: Extracts from an autobiography Rachel Mestel ...... 34
Jews in the 2001 Australian Census W. D. Rubinstein ...... 74
Jewish community involvement in the criminal life of Melbourne: 1835-50 Paul R. Mullaly ...... 84 Book reviews William D. Rubinstein ...... 106 Yossi Aron, History of Melbourne Adass Israel Helen Webberley...... 107 Gillian Forwood, Lina Bryans: Rare Modern 1909-2000 Leigh Astbury, Earth to Sky: the Art of Victor Majzner Stan Marks ...... 111 Jacob G. Rosenberg, Lives and Embers R. Malcolm Fredman ...... 113 Peter and Ann Elias (eds), A Few From Afar: Jewish Lives in Tasmania from 1804 Howard Freeman ...... 116 Memory Lane in Old Hobart Town The Australian Jewish Historical Essay Competition, 2003
Malcolm J. Turnbull ...... 118 Introduction Jackie Lang ...... 119 Esther and George Shimi Fixler ...... 122 Jews in Shepparton Other material 1 Report to members ...... 124 2 Contributors ...... 127
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Obituary ...... 131 131
EditorialEditorial ...... 134 134
Esther Johnson revisited: Revisionism in her story MorrisMorris Forbes ...... 137 137
The complex colonial: the case of Samuel Lyons Nick Dyrenfurth ...... 164 164
Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) A boy from Oz: one of Australia's forgotten sons.sons. Mabel Kaplan ...... 180180
The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902:1899-1902: An Australian Jewish Perspective Part IIII:: Rose Lena Shappere Russel Stern ...... 191
The Dinte Family History: From Kalisz Poland to Australia Joy Dinte ...... 208
From Country Town to City Community:Community: Rose and Israel Samuel Hovev in Australia Diana Encel ...... 225
Australia Bound: One boy's journey from persecution to life Paul Schiffres ...... 238
The Contribution of Three Australian Jewish Pilots: 1936-19541936- 1954 Morris Ochert ...... 284 130 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS If you will it, it is no dream: The Moriah Story 1943-20031943-2003 By Suzanne D. Rutland Sophie Caplan ...... 292
Kehillat Emanuel:,Emanuel:, A History of the Congregation of the Temple EmanuelEmanuel,, Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia By Lee Albert Maurice Simmons Sophie Caplan ...... 295
My Two Lives By Lotte Weiss Sophie Caplan ...... 298
The Dunera Boys By Robyn O'Sullivan Helen Bersten ...... 299
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 301
New Members ...... 302
Contributors ...... 303
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Editor's introductionintroduction ...... 307 TheThe AJHS Vic. Archives ...... 309309 Accessing the AJHS Vic. Archives ...... 110310 EliezerElie-::.er MontefioreMontejiore (1820-94):( 1820-94): Artist,Artist, gallerygallery directordirector and insur- ance pioneer;pioneer; therhe first significant AustralianAustralian JewishJewish artist Rodney Benjamin ...... 3 31111 The origins and development of the JewishJewish Agricultural Settlement at Orrvale,Orrvale, Shepparton,Shepparton, foundedfounded in April 1913 David FeiglinFeiglin ...... 341341 The JewishJewish burial grounds of Brisbane Brisbane MorrisMorris S. OchertOchert ...... 357 A towntown in Poland remembers itsits past CarolineCaroline DuneDurre and RafalRafal WitkowskiWitkowski ...... 364 The 'declining' years of the Melbourne JewishJewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, 1954-701954-70 PhilipPhilip Mendes ...... 375 From taketake-off-off to maturity:maturity: The Australia-Israel-Israel Chamber of Com- mercemerce and Industry,Industry, Victoria RodRodneyney Goutmann ...... 389 HarringtonHarrington Street Old JewishJewish Cemetery, Hobart: Revisiting our past EpEphraimhraim FincFinchh ...... 408 What's golf? ThThee storystory of ththee Cranbourne Golf Club Les Kausman ...... 412 100100 yearsyears ago Lorraine Freeman ...... 421 Book reviews George HalaszHalasz...... 436 Anna RosnerRosner Blay, Not Paradise RichardRichard Freadman ...... 43843 8 Eva Marks,Marks, A Patchwork Life Bernard RechterRechter ...... 444411 Peter Yule,Yule, ed.ed.,, Carlton: A HistoryHistory Howard A. FreemanFree,nan ...... 444 Jill,Jill, DucheDuchessss of Hamilton, God, Guns and Israel: Britain,Britain, the First World War and the JewsJews in the Holy Land Lionel Sharpe ...... 445 Louise Rosenberg, Of FolktalesFolktales and JewishJewish Folk in Australian History Serge LibermanLibennan ...... 446 Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself SamSani Moshinsky ...... 449 Horst (Peter) Eisfelder, Chinese Exile: My Years in Shanghai and Nanking
Other material 1l Obituaries ...... 452 2 Report to men1bersmembers ...... 455 3 ContributorsContributors ...... 458
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Editorial...... 463
Lewis Lipman Colin Choat ...... 466
The Jews of Goulburn 1835-1881: A Revision of the History Morris Forbes ...... 481
The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902: An Australian Jewish Perspective Part III: Letters from Australian Jews in the Boer War Russell Stern ...... 512
Leonard Keysor VC - The Quiet Hero Keira Quinn Lockyer ...... 544
Peter Lazarus at a Hundred Keith Lazarus,Cecil Lazarus, Sandra Bullon ...... 566
Memories of an Australian Childhood Helen Whitmont ...... 575
The Maccabean Hall: Soul of the Community; Spirit of the Times, 1918-1992 Barbara Linz...... 586
Memories of 'the Mace' Julie Morris ...... 611
Address to the Australian Jewish Historical Society Raymond Apple ...... 619 462 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS Monash the Outsider who won the War By Roland Perry Russell W. Stern...... 623
Paul Cullen Citizen and Soldier By Kevin Baker Russell W. Stern ...... 625
Kirsh in Australia: the untold story By Heidi Zogbaum Ian Bersten ...... 629
Winter Journey By Diane Armstrong Sophie Caplan ...... 631
Interrupted Journeys: Young Refugees From Hitler's Reich By Alan Gill Sophie Caplan ...... 633
My Three Lives By Henry Pollack Sophie Caplan ...... 634
Errata ...... 636
Obituaries: Dr Ronald Mendelsohn ...... 638 Anne Hoffman ...... 640
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 643
New Members ...... 645
Contributors ...... 646
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Editorial ...... 4
Resurrecting Chapman Grace Karskens ...... 8
Braham Moses'Moses' Visit to Palestine - 1938:1938: An Australian Jew's perspective Philip Moses ...... 22
Dialogue, Doctrine and Diplomacy: A Consideration of the Australian Guidelines for Catholic - Jewish Relations Rebecca Lacey...... 42
Demography of the Sydney Jewish Community:Community: 2001 Gary Eckstein ...... 80
The Establishment of Mandelbaum House Gidon Druery,Druery, Appendix by Raymond Apple ...... 104
BOOK REVIEWS The Deckston LegacyLegacy:: From Institute to Trust - The Deckston Contribution to the Wellington Hebrew Congregation By Mike ReganRegan,, Bob Pope and Susan Isaacs Helen Bersten ...... 117
When War came: The story of one man's escape from Nazi Occupied Poland, his remarkable survival in the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan,Uzbekistan, and Journey to AustraliAustraliaa By Mendel Matthew Factor Helen BersBersten ten ...... 119 119 2 Australian Jewish Historical Society
A Time to Keep:Keep: The Story of Temple Beth Israel, 19301930 - 2005 By Werner Graff, Malcom JJ.. Turnball and Eliot Baskin Sophie Caplan ...... 122 122
Dear Dr Janzow: Australia'sAustralia's Lutheran Churches and Refugees from Hitler'sHitler's Germany By Peter Monteath Sophie Caplan ...... 124 124
Bad faith: A forgotten History of Family and Fatherland By Carmen CallCallil Sophie Caplan ...... 126
Jewish Country Girls: A Collection of Memories By Diana Encel Diane Armstrong ...... 128
German Anzacs and the First World War By John F.F. Williams Russell WW.. Stern ...... 130 130
Russian Anzacs in Australian History By Elena Govor Russell WW.. Stern ...... 131131
Mad for Zion: A biography of Colonel J. HH.. Patterson By Patrick Streeter Russell WW.. Stern ...... 135 135
No Locked Doors:Doors: Jewish life in Shepparton By Shirley Randles Judth Shapira ...... 137 137
Jews and Australian Politics By Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Philip Mendes, (eds) Andrew Jakubowizc ...... 139
The Jews in Australia By Suzanne D.D. Rutland Sol Encel ...... 142
Presidential Report Sophie Caplan ...... 145 145
Errata ...... 148 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
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Editors’ introduction ...... 159 Emanuel Solomon and Mary McKillop Trevor S. Cohen...... 160 The foundation of the Federation of Australian Jewish Welfare Societies Rodney Benjamin...... 172 Issy Smith VC Maurice Smith...... 180 Hachshara: An Australian ‘Kibbutz’ William J. Metcalf ...... 191 Researching John Monash Ann M. Mitchell...... 217 Patterns of Jewish immigration to Australia and their impact upon Australian Jewish identity William D. Rubinstein...... 231 100 years ago Lorraine Freeman...... 235 Major award for Rabbi Dr Levi 236 Book reviews Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography Helen Ennis...... 237 A Public Life: The Memoirs of Zelman Cowen John Simon Levi ...... 240 Yosl Bergner: Art as a Meeting of Cultures Helen Webberley...... 243 Judy Cassab: A Portrait Helen Webberley...... 244 The Great Music Makers Helen Webberley ...... 246 An Anzac Zionist Hero: The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel Eliazar Margolin Joe Lederman...... 247 The Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with Political Processes and Social Pressures William D. Rubinstein...... 250 New Under The Sun: Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics and Culture William D. Rubinstein...... 251 My Israel Question Philip Mendes ...... 253 William D. Rubinstein...... 257 People, Parliament And Politics Colin Rubenstein...... 260
Other material 1 Report to Members ...... 262 2 Members Joined Since 2004 ...... 264 3 Contributors ...... 265
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Editorial ...... 269
The First Bet Din Convened in Australia Jeremy I. Pfeffer ...... 273
A Reconsideration of Edward Davis; the Jewboy Bushranger and his Family Morris Z.Z . Forbes ...... 302
Edward Elias Whitmont: Valuable Thread of Sydney's Jewish Community Scott Whitmont ...... 330
An Outline of the History of '`Frum'Frum' Jews in New South Wales, 17881788 - 19401940 Sarah Vorchheimer ...... 340
A Journey to the 'Edge'Edge of the Diaspora'Diaspora' - the Jews from Egypt Racheline Barda ...... 372
`Buying'Buying out of the Matter': Australia's Role in Restitution for Templer Property in Israel Suzanne D. Rutland ...... 410
BOOK REVIEWS
The First Fagin: The true story of Ikey Solomon By Judith Sackville-O'Donnell Helen Bersten ...... 435
These are the Names: Jewish Lives in Australia 17881788 -- 18501850 By John Simon Levi Sophie Caplan ...... 436 268 Australian Jewish Historical Society
In Search of My Father: A True Story By Paul Drexler Sophie Caplan ...... 438
Annual Report Sophie Caplan ...... 440
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 442
New Members ...... 443
Contributors ...... 444
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Editors’ introduction ...... 449 Harrington Street Cemetery Parry Kostoglou...... 452 The charismatic Caroline Chisholm Howard Freeman...... 506 Mi dor le dor (From generation to generation) Dorothy Graff...... 517 Joseph Plottel: A man ahead of his time Robin Grow ...... 540 Tracing my cousins down under: the joys of Jewish genealogy Judith Romney Wegner...... 553 Animal slaughter in Melbourne: campaigns concerning the issue of shechita, 1946-58 Catherine Pearce...... 570 Crawcour stories Patrick Coppel ...... 585 Messianic Jews in Australia: A clash or a hybrid? Dvir Abramovich ...... 615 100 years ago Lorraine Freeman...... 640 Book reviews These Are the Names: Jewish names in Australia, 1788-1850 John S. Levi ...... 642 Worlds Apart: The re-migration of South African Jews Colin Tatz, Peter Arnold, and Gillian Heller ...... 643 My Father’s Compass Howard Goldenberg...... 645 Other material 1 Obituary ...... 649 2 Letter to editors ...... 650 3 Report to members ...... 652 4 Members joined since 2006 ...... 654 5 Contributors ...... 655
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Obituary: Morris Zion Forbes Louise Rosenberg...... 3
EditorialEditorial...... 6
Australian Jewry and the Wailing Wall Incident Morris Z. Forbes ...... 9
David Walter 'Karri'`Karri' Davies Russell Stern ...... 35
Dr Billigheimer in Australia Raymond Apple ...... 61
From Galicia to Australia and New Zealand: Alec Klippel's story. Ann Gluckman (ed) ...... 75
The Last Peruvian: The Jewish Criminal Links to Abraham Gilbert Saffron Robert M. Kaplan ...... 86
An Outline of the History of '`From'Frum' Jews in New South Wales, Part 2. Sarah Vorchheimer ...... 98
BOOK REVIEWS The Great Synagogue: A History of the Big Shule by Raymond Apple Gael Hammer ...... 136
This Crazy Thing a Life: Australian Jewish Autobiography By Richard Freadman Suzanne D. Rutland ...... 139 2 Australian Jewish Historical Society
A History of Giving:Giving: The Melbourne Hebrew Ladies from 18571857 by Lionel S. Sharpe Helen Bersten ...... 142
History of the Shalom Institute (Incorporating Shalom College and the Hillel Foundation of NSW) by Graeme Cohen Helen Bersten ...... 143 143
Escape to Les Vignes:Vignes: A Childhood in NaziNazi-Occupied-Occupied France By Anita Sharpe Sophie Caplan ...... 145
A Journey Through Life:Life: The Memoirs of An Immigrant To Australia by Arnaldo Buch Noela Symonds...... 147 147
President's Report ...... 149 149
Errata ...... 152 152
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 156
New Members ...... 157
Contributors ...... 158
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Editors’ introduction ...... 163 The memoir of Albert Behrend of Melbourne Ann M. Mitchell...... 165 Jews in the Australian Dictionary of Biography William D. Rubinstein...... 212 Uncovering traces: German-speaking refugee musicians in Australia Albrecht Dümling...... 219 Dwelling together, apart: The Jewish presence in Melbourne’s first apartment boom Seamus O’Hanlon...... 237 How a zipper came to make fine music Suzanne Baker...... 248 Olga Jacobs, OBE: A celebration R. Malcolm Fredman...... 256 Theorising doykeyt: Towards a history of the Melbourne Bund David Slucki...... 259 Alec Masel (1898–1988) Danny Masel and Debbie Masel...... 269 Creating a Jewish sesquicentenary celebration: The Blashki family reunion, 2008 Gael Hammer and Nerrida Pohl...... 277 The enemy is on the Right: Re-evaluating the formative ideology and political strategy of the Melbourne Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, 1942–47 Philip Mendes...... 285 Leah Haskin: A tribute on her 100th birthday Mark Haskin...... 293 100 years ago Lorraine Freeman ...... 296 Book review The Stories Our Parents Found Too Painful To Tell By Rafael Rajzner & Henry Lew...... 298 Other material 1 Report to members ...... 302 2 Members joined since 2007 ...... 304 3 Contributors ...... 305
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EditorialEditorial ...... 311
Keynote address for the Seventieth Anniversary Luncheon of the Australian Jewish Historical Society,Society, 7 September 2008 Great Synagogue,Synagogue, Sydney AnthonyAnthony Joseph ...... 314
Australian Synagogue Names Raymond Apple ...... 329
The Sabbath Sports Controversy Raymond Apple ...... 341
Your Past,Past, My Present: Sustaining life across Australia Laura J. Stocker ...... 354
Sanctuary for whom? Jewish victims and Nazi perpetrators in post-war Australian migrant camps Suzanne D. Rutland ...... 382
Back to the Future:Future: Lessons from the 1974-19751974-1975 Anti-Israel-Israel Debates on Campus Geoffrey H. Tofler ...... 405
BOOK REVIEWS Marine Officer, Convict Wife, the Johnstons of Annandale by Alan Roberts Helen Bersten ...... 418
From Iberia to Van Diemans Land: A Cohen Family Odyssey By Pam Zopf and Geoff Court Gary Luke ...... 421 310 Australian Jewish Historical Society
From One End of the Earth to the Other:Other: The London Bet Din, 1805-1855,1805-1855, and the Jewish convicts transported to Australia by Jeremy I. Pfeffer Gary Luke...... 423
The Jewish Community of Canberra: Recollections in Oral History Edited by Adele Rosalky Helen Bersten ...... 425
Alva's Boy: An Unsentimental Memoir By Alan Collins Sophie Caplan ...... 427
In Hinesight by Hilde Hines Sophie Caplan ...... 429
The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia Edited by Tom Lawson and James Jordan Robert Aldrich ...... 432
Testifying to the Holocaust Edited by Pam Maclean,Maclean, Michele Langfield and Dvir Abramovich Avril Alba ...... 434
President's Report ...... 439
Obituary ...... 445 Lionel Fredman By Malcolm and Clive Fredman,Fredman, with assistance from his daughter Jacqueline
Errata ...... 447
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 459
New Members ...... 461
Contributors ...... 463
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EditorialEditorial...... 3
Blind Larry: the Jewish Actor as Habitual Criminal Robert Jordan ...... 7
Isaac Nathan's Songs;Songs; in Glenarvon and Ada Reis: Leaves from a Secret History Graham Pont ...... 26
A Cemetery and its Stories Janis Wilson ...... 43
Aspects of IsolationIsolation-the—the Challenges of Maintaining Jewish Life and Culture in Rural and Regional Australia Glen Gordon ...... 69
Jewish NorthbridgeN orthbridge Keith B.B . ShilliinShilkin ...... 116
Northern Territory: A Jewish Community that Never Was Raymond Apple ...... 132
Jewish Scholarship in Sydney Between the Wars Raymond Apple ...... 145
Dreamers of Great Dreams: Gendered Responses to Zionism amongst Australian Jewry, 1929-19481929-1948 Wendy Michaels ...... 159 2 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK RREVIEWSEVIEWS A Land of PromisePromise:: An account of Jacob Isaacs, Jewish Convict and Benjamin Isaacs,Isaacs, Christian Printer and Publisher By Kris Jacobsen Helen Bersten ...... 194 194
Ironbark By Johanna Nicholls Jeannette Tsoulos...... 197
The Words to Remember It ByBy-survivors—survivors By Various Authors Sophie Caplan ...... 198 198
From Choclate to Anzac Biscuits By George Sternberg Sophie Caplan ...... 199 199
To Be Continued By Raymond Apple Joe Kensell ...... 201
Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous People Working Together By Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin Helen BerstenBers ten ...... 203
President's Report ...... 206
Errata ...... 210
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 211
New Members ...... 212
Contributors ...... 213
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Editors’ Introduction ...... 3 The Skeleton in Isaac Nathan’s Cupboard Jeremy I. Pfeffer...... 5 At home with the Monashes Ann M. Mitchell...... 22 The Search for the Lost ANZAC Torah Joe Lederman...... 58 Research Services 1960–67: ‘unremitting vigilance, preparedness and understanding’ Andrew Markus...... 68 The Weintraub Syncopators: The Jewish Question and the Musicians’ Union of Australia 1937–53 Kay Dreyfus...... 81 Constructions Of Judeo-Communism: The unravelling of the Melbourne Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Antisemitism, 1949–50 Philip Mendes...... 110 First-class Jewish Cricketers Melvyn Barnett...... 123 Hermann Deutsch, Pioneer Ballarat Engraver and Lithographer Thomas A. Darragh...... 131 The Jews of Boroondara General Cemetery Tanya Warms...... 147 100 Years Ago Lorraine Freeman...... 159 Book reviews Goodbye Shanghai – A Memoir By Sam Moshinsky...... 161 My Dear Friends: The Life Of Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger By John S. Levi...... 163 Not Welcome: A Dunera Boy’s Escape from Nazi oppression to eventual freedom in Australia. By Sue Everett...... 164 Other material Report to Members 168 Members Joined AJHS Victoria Inc since November 2008 171 Contributors 2010 173
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Editorial ...... 179
Mary Connolly Revisited Raymond AppApplel e ...... 183 183
Australian Composers and Arrangers of Early Colonial Synagogue Music:Music: New Light on Issaac Nathan,Nathan, Henri AndersonAnderson,, Joseph Reichenberg, and Herman Hoelzel Graeme Skinner ...... 193
Moses Angel and the JewsJews'' Free School Mary LazarusLazarus,, edited by Jennifer McNaughton ...... 215
Jewish Scholarship in Sydney Between the Two World Wars, Part IIH Raymond Apple ...... 257
`Wagga'Wagga boasts a Modern Pimpernel':Pimper nel': Dame Mary Gilmore, John Alexander Cameron and Jewish EEmigrationmigration To PalestinePalestine,, 19201920 to 1923 Les Hetherington ...... 272
Family Footsteps in Fremantle Hilary Silbert ...... 291
Seeking 'Treasure'Treasure Island':Island': Manpower and ArmsArms from Australia and the South Pacific to Israel, 1948-19501948-1950 Suzanne D. Rutland ...... 307 178 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS True Blue Jews By Louise Rosenberg Helen Bersten ...... 324
Obituaries Professor Emeritus Sol EncelEnce!...... 326
Professor Emeritus Alan Crown ...... 329
President's Report ...... 331
Errata ...... 334
Genealogical Enquiries ...... 337. 337
New Members ...... 339
Contributors ...... 340
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Editors’ Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 347 A Jewish Philanthropist in Colonial Australia: Eliezer Levi Montefiore’s Papers in the Autograph Collection of the State Library of Victoria Hugh Hudson...... 349 Bergner and Sievers: Two ‘Alien’ Artists in the Australian Army during the Second World War June Factor...... 395 Kurt Offenburg in Australia Walter Struve...... 405 Louis Monash of Melbourne to His Brother Max Monasch in Krotoschin, Posen Province, 25 May 1861 0 Introduction by Ann M. Mitchell with Peter Fraenkel...... 420 0 The 150th Anniversary of the Ballarat Synagogue John S. Levi...... 424 The Australian Jewish Left and Indigenous Rights Philip Mendes...... 430 The Impact of Melbourne’s Yiddishists Deborah Gurt...... 444 A Melbourne Family in the Great European War Rodney Benjamin...... 460 100 Years Ago Lorraine Freeman ...... 482 Book reviews A Home away from Home: The History of Emmy Monash Aged Care By Helen Felder...... 484 Don’t Ever Let Them Get You! By George Dreyfus...... 485 0
If You Were in Our Place – The Rescuers of the Van Engel Family in the Netherlands in the Second World War By Helen Light ...... 488 Other material Report to Members 490 Members Joined AJHS Victoria Inc since November 2010 492 Contributors 493
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Editorial...... 497
The Log of Elias Moses Cris George...... 501
The Myers Line, Emanuel: A limb on a Branch of the McCarry-Brotherson Family Tree Greg McCarry...... 534
Masonic Ministers in Australia + Raymond Apple...... 566 +
The Dismissal: A Biography of Eugene Bloch (1881-1957), Consul General of Switzerland in Sydney (1920-1933) Georges M. Teitler...... 580
Maurice David Goldman–Extraordinary Linguist Raymond Apple...... 604
BOOK REVIEWS A Tragedy in two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan By Fiona Harari Helen Bersten...... 612 To My Brave Wife: Dunera Notes from a Jewish ‘enemy alien’ By Kurt Epststein Ken Inglis...... 614 Empire Day By Diane Armstrong Sophie Caplan...... 617
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Jewish Lives in New Zealand: A History By Leonard Bell & Diana Morrow, eds. M.J. Kensell...... 619 Austen Tayshus. Merchant of Menace By Ross Fitzgerald and Rick Murphy Helen Bersten...... 620 Bibliography of Australian Judaica By Serge Liberman Sophie Caplan...... 622 My Mother’s Spice Kitchen By Elana Benjamin Suzanne D. Rutland...... 624 Sarona By Helmut Glenk Suzanne D. Rutland...... 627 Die Verschwundenun Musiker: Jüdische Flüchtlinge in Australien (The Vanished Musicians: Jewish Refugees in Australia) By Albrecht Dümling + Glen Nicolls...... 628 + Egyptian-Jewish Emigrés in Australia By Racheline Barda Norman Stillman...... 630
Obituaries Morris Ochert, Sam Fisher...... 635
President’s Report...... 640
Errata...... 643
Genealogical Enquiries...... 644
New Members...... 645
Contributors...... 646
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Editors'Editors' IntroductionIntroduction 3 Sir ZehnanZelman Cowen MemorialMemorial Service OrfordOxford Lady Anna Cowen ...... 5 Zelman,Zelman, My Father Kate Cowen ...... 8 A DifferentDifferellt Silence: ThThee Survival of More Than 200,000 PolishPolish Jews in the Soviet Union DuringDuring WWorldorld War IIfl as a Case Studs'Study in Cultural Amnesia John GoldlGoldlu ustst ...... 1313 'The'The GeneralGeneral Awakening of JewishJewish Consciousness':Consciousness': ThThee DevelopmentDevelopment of the JewishJewish Students' Study Group in MMelbourneelbourne Daniel C. Tabor ...... 616 1 A Fata Morgana on the Edge of a Desert:Desert: ImpressionsImpressions ofofa a Visit in 1962 MendelMendel MannMann ...... 86 A FirFirstst Home inin a FFreeree CountryCountry HelenHelen LightLight ...... 93 Life OutsideOwside the Frame:Frame: A Case StudyStudy in.in MisrepresentationMisrepresentation AAnnnn M. Mitchell ...... 97 Australia'sAustralia's RoleRole in the Establishment of IsraelIsrael Chanan ReichReich ...... 107I 07 100100 Years Ago: Victoria 1912 CompiledCompiled By LorraineLorraine FreemanFreeman ...... 111 144 Book reviews The BibliographyBibliography of AustralasianAustrala sian Judaica:Judaica: 1788-2008 (3rd Edition) ByBy SeSergerge LibermanLiberman ...... 111 166 A Shtetl In Ek VeltVeit [A[A ShtetlShtetl at thethe End of thethe World]: 54 StoriesStories of Growing up in JewishJewish Carlton 1925-19451925- 1945 CompiledCompiled and editededited by JulieJulie MeadowsMeadows ...... 1I 17 Report to Members 12112 L Members Joined AJHS Victoria Inc since November 20120111 123 Contributors 124
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Editorial...... 129
‘The main thing is to shut them out’: The Deployment of Law and the Arrival of Russians in Australia 1913-1925: An histoire Marett Leiboff...... 133
Solomon Alfred Adler in the Antipodes Raymond Apple...... 164
Miles Evergood: Australian Impressionist Gael Hammer...... 172
Is There a Minhag Australia Raymond Apple...... 186
The Many Facets of Jewish Genealogy Jeannette Tsoulos...... 195
Joachim Schneeweiss and the Sydney Zionist Youth Movement Diana Encel...... 208
* ‘The Australian Resolution’: The campaign against ‘Zionism equals Racism’ Niccolo Tofoni...... 216
The Search for Nazi War Criminals in Australia: Review essay Mark Aarons...... 244
Comment on Mark Aaron’s Review Philip Mendes...... 256 128 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS These are the Names By John Levi Gary Luke...... 258 The Jewish Emigrant from Britain 1700-2000: Essays in memory of Lloyd P. Gartner Edited by Gabriel A. Sivan Raymond Apple...... 260 Goulburn Pioneer Cemeteries: St Savior’s, Mortis Street, Towrang Stockade, Jewish and St Patrick’s College By Jan L. Grant and June F. Penny Gary Luke...... 262 Lion Hearts: A Family Saga of Refugees and Asylum Seekers By Henry R. Lew Suzanne D. Rutland...... 263 Norman Haire and the study of Sex By Diana Wyndham Helen Bersten...... 267
Obituary Earle Hoffman...... 272
President’s Report...... 275
Errata...... 277
Genealogical Enquiries...... 278
New Members...... 279
Contributors...... 280
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Editors'Editors' IntroductionIntroduction...... 285 The DunemDunera BoBoysys in HistoryHistory and MemoryMemory Ken IngInglislis ...... 287 ThThee 'Australia'Australia First' Circle And Their 'ReasonedReasoned Case Against Sernitism%Semitism', 1936-421936-42 DaDavidvid Bird ...... 306 The Kangaroo VallValleyey TorTorahah GeoffGeoff PahoffPahotT ...... 3163 16 The WritWritee Your Story Project:Project: A Decade of CollectingCollecting., PublishingPublishing and Archiving Autobiographical Writings at the MakorMakar JewishJewish CommunityC01111711illin. LibrarLibraryy in MelbourneMelboume JuliJuliee MeadowsMeadows ...... 321 Beniu'ichesBentwiches aplained:1840sExplained:1840s to 1940s1940s AnnAnn M. MMitchellitchell ...... 337 What the EyeEve Will See Michael KomesaroffKomesaroff ...... 408 Isaac Nathan's Angst JeremyJeremy PfeffePfefferr ...... 440 100JOO YYearsears Ago: Victoria 1913 CompiledCompi led by LorraLorraineine FreeFreemanman ...... 453 Book reviewsreviews Yiddish MelbourneMelbourne Observed: Memoirs and Commentaries of a DedicatedDedicated Yiddishist and BundistBundist By Sender BurstiBurstin.n. TraTranslatednslated by Ben & David BurstinBurstin ...... 455 Jeu'sJews of the Outback: The CeCentenary11tena1y of ththee BrokBrokenen Hill Synagogue 1910-2010 Edited by Suzanne D. RutRutland.land, Leon Mann and Margaret PricePrice ...... 456 Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the WWarsars By Patricia ClarkeClarke ...... 459 NaziNazi Dreamtime: Australian Enthusiasts for HitlHitler'ser's GermanGermanyy By David S.S. Bird ...... 462 Silences And Secrets: The Australian ExperiExperienceence of WWeintraubseintraubs SyncopatorsSyncopators By Kay Dreyfus ...... 464 These Are the Names [SeferISefer Shemotj:Shemot]: Jewish Lives in Australia, 1788-18501788-1850 (Second Edition) By John S. Levi ...... 470
Other material 1.I. A Tribute: Rodney Malcolm Fredman 473 2. Report to Members 475 3.3. Members Joined AJHS Victoria Inc Since November 2012 477 4. Contributors 478 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
June 2014 Volume XXI Part 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial...... 483
From Sheerness to Van Diemans Land: the Saga of Judah and Joseph Soloman Jeremy I. Pfeffer...... 487
Women’s Lives in EarlyBrisbane Jewish Settlement: A Lasting Legacy* Jennifer Creese...... 531
A.B. Davis’s Textbook: 100th Yahrzeit Tribute Raymond Apple...... 556
Finding the Jewish Diggers of the Great War, Part I Russell Stern...... 573
Harry Cohen, Australian Jewry and the 1936 Berlin Olympics Anthony J. Hughes...... 594
Rosine Guiterman: A Forgotten Australian Activist Ron Witton...... 612
History of the NSW Friends of the Hebrew University, Part II, 1972-1984 Alan Milston...... 633
Melbourne’s Three Jewish Communities, 1920-1950 Rafael Ungar...... 659 482 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS Never Wear a Watch: Neil Glasser MVO, Entrepreneur Extraordinaire By Joanna Sleigh with Debbie Sleigh Helen Bersten...... 667 Spiritual Treasure:a Biography and Tribute Dedicated to Rabbi Dr Shalom Coleman By Andrew Blitz Raymond Apple...... 668
Obituary Alan Milston Philip Moses...... 671
President’s Report...... 675
Errata...... 677
Genealogical Enquiries...... 680
New Members...... 682
Contributors...... 683
Opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not reflect the official position of the Society
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2015 Volume XXII Part 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor’s Introduction…………………………………………………………...... 3
The Rise and Fall Of Albert Coppel Charles A.Coppel………………………………………………….……………………..…………………………………………………..5
Much Ado About Nothing? Nineteen Years of ASIO Surveillance of My Father David Mushin………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………26
David Sisserman (1886–1958), Cellist: In Australia 1929–30 And 1933–48 Tony Seymor………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………. 47
No One Is To Blame: The Driving Force Behind the Work of Henry Walter Barnett Sally Jackson……………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………. 91
Who Was Daniel Tallerman? Jenny Cowen……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 119
100 Years Ago: Victoria 1914 Compiled By Lorraine Freeman, From the Pages of The Australian Jewish Herald For 1914….…… 126
BOOK REVIEWS
JEWS AND THE LEFT: THE RISE AND FALL OF A POLITICAL ALLIANCE By Philip Mendes William D Rubenstein……………………………………………………………………………………………….……………….129
THE FORGOTTEN ZIONIST: THE LIFE OF SOLOMON (SIOMA) YANKELOVITCH By Jacobi Rodney Benjamin and David Cebon William D Rubenstein…………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………130
LATE JOURNEY: A MEMOIR By Dagmar Strauss Pam Maclean……………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………132
THE AUNT’S MIRRORS: FAMILY EXPERIENCE AND MEANINGFULNESS: A MEMOIR By Damien Freeman Hilary Rubinstein……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….134
Made in Australia: Memories of an Australian Jewish Family By Miriam Segal Hilary Rubinstein……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….135 AJHS 22.2 Final prf:AJHS 19/3 Final 15/06/2015 9:14 am Page 143
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial...... 145
James Laurence the singing convict as ‘an Hebrew’ Rob Wills...... 149
Louis Pulver (1855-1897): ‘Heaven-Born Instructor of Youth’ Raymond Apple...... 174
Harold Boas – A Man of Principle Philip Moses...... 184
Finding the Jewish Diggers of the Great War (Part II): Identifying who is Jewish just by Name Russell Stern...... 211
Deciding to Stay: Dunera’s ‘Alien Doctors’ in Australia Carol Bunyan and George M. Weisz...... 285
History of Friends of the Hebrew University, (Part III) Alan Milston...... 303
Let My People Go Robert Goot...... 328
Whitlam’s Shifts in Foreign Policy 1972-1975: Israel and Soviet Jewry Suzanne D. Rutland...... 339
Essay Competition: Four winning entries ...... 377 AJHS 22.2 Final prf:AJHS 19/3 Final 15/06/2015 9:14 am Page 144
144 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEWS Fishnets, Feathers and Heels, Memoirs of an Aussie bluebell By Rosalind Michaelis Helen Bersten...... 375
Transnational Traditions; New Perspectives on American Jewish History Edited by Ava Kahn and Adam Mendelsohn Helen Bersten...... 377
President’s Report...... 383
Errata...... 385
Genealogical Enquiries...... 386
New Members...... 387
Contributors...... 388
Opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not reflect the official position of the Society AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
November 2015 Vol. XXII Part 3
Editor’s Introduction ...... 393 Monasches and the Holocaust: Family Stories Part 1 Ann M Mitchell ...... 395 Leo Rosner: A Man of Note Anna Rosner Blay ...... 450 Harry Hurst – aka The Maestro Sharon Hurst ...... 464 My Mother Never Cooked for Me Judy Wasserman (née Sallick) ...... 468 Kidnapped From Olinda Judith R. Sackville ...... 476 Thy Name is ‘Palestine’: Maccabi Tel Aviv FC’s Tour of Australia, 1939 Rodney Gouttman ...... 482 Situating Fritz Loewe: Scientist, Émigré Katrina Dean ...... 497 A Jewish Refugee in Wartime Melbourne ‘Diary of a Hawker’: Robert Ellis Peter Monteath and Gretel Dunstan ...... 512 The Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism and the campaign against Nazi War Criminals Philip Mendes ...... 534 On An Ordinary Suburban Street: A Brief History of Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre Steven Cooke, Donna-Lee Frieze ...... 548 100 Years Ago: Victoria 1915 Compiled by Lorraine Freeman ...... 569 Book reviews In Their Merit: Australian Jewry and WWI by Rodney Gouttman ...... 571 The Australian Jewish News: 120 Years: The people and events making the headlines Edited by Karen Klein 573 Keysor VC, Gallipoli’s Quiet Hero: The story of the man born Leonard Maurice Kyezor and the story of his Kyezor family By Keira Quinn Lockyer ...... 574 Flashpoints: Israel, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust By Dvir Abramovich ...... 575 Zachor, I Remember. Will You? By Vera Freidin ...... 576 My World, Refections on my Life and Times By Ron Taft ...... 578 Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–1989 By Sam Lipski and Suzanne D Rutland ...... 580 Other material Report to Members ...... 587 Members Joined AJHS Victoria Inc Since November 2014 ...... 589 Contributors ...... 590 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
June 2016 Volume XXII Part 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial...... 595
‘He Ministered Excellently’: The Australian Career of Rev. Zalel Mandelbaum Raymond Apple...... 599
The extended Monasch Family History Ken Arkwright...... 610
The Adelaide Hebrew Congregation and its Community, 1929-1945 Rodney Gouttman...... 621
The Falk Library ‘Tug-of War’ Helen Bersten...... 642
The Library of the Great Synagogue, Sydney: Implications of an e-Bibliographic and e-Historiographic Case Study Steve Schach...... 655
Hungarian Jews Down Under: A History of the Hungarian Jewish Immigrants who arrived in Australia 1956-7 and Settled in Sydney Judy Bahar...... 668
BOOK REVIEWS Alias-Blind Larry, the Mostly True Memoir of James Laurence, the Singing Convict By Rob Wills John Levi...... 707 594 Australian Jewish Historical Society
Rosetta, a Scandalous True Story By Alexandra Joel Joe Kensell...... 710
The Secrets of the Anzacs: The Untold Story of Venereal Disease in the Australian Army, 1914-1919 By Raden Dunbar Russell Stern...... 711
Hats in the Ring: Choosing Britain’s Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks By Meir Persoff Jeffrey Cohen...... 713
The Interior of our Memories: A History of Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre By Steven Cooke and Donna Lee-Fieze The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space By Avril Alba Jeffrey Cohen...... 716
President’s Report...... 721
Genealogical Enquiries...... 725
New Members...... 726
Contributors...... 727
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November 2016 Vol. XXIII Part 1
Editor’s Introduction...... 3 Memories of my Father: The Concert Pianist Jascha Spivakovsky Michael Spivakovsky...... 5 The Return of Reverend Jacob Lenzer’s Piano Dovid Gutnick...... 20 Australia at Time of War: Two Contrasting Perspectives Daniel C. Tabor...... 24 Unknown Soldiers: Australian Jewish National Servicemen in the Vietnam War Mark Dapin...... 51 ‘The Spark in the Ash’ Vivien Altman...... 79 Walter Lippmann, Transformative Leader Andrew Markus and Margaret Taft...... 93 An Updated History of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society, 2000–16 Philip Mendes ...... 111 ‘The Russians Are Coming’: migration and settlement of Soviet Jews in Australia John Goldlust...... 149 A Book for Five Shekels Louis Waller...... 187 Obituary – Dr David Cohen AM, Doyen of Australian Education C. Margot Cohen ...... 192 100 YEARS AGO: VICTORIA 1916 Compiled by Lorraine Freeman...... 195 Book Reviews Journeys Through the Twentieth Century: Stories from One Family by Daniel C. Tabor...... 198 Who Gave You Permission? The Memoir of a Child Sexual-Abuse Survivor who Fought Back by Manny Waks with Michael Visontay...... 199 Walter Lippmann, Ethnic Communities Leader: ‘Creative Thinker, Dogged Worker, The Kindest of Men’ by Andrew Markus and Margaret Taft (editors)...... 202 Other Material Report to Members 2016 ...... 205 New Members Joined AJHS Victoria Inc since November 2015...... 207 Contributors...... 208 AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
June 2017 Volume XXIII Part 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial...... 215
Forging the First Australian Kehillah, 1820 to 1832 Gary Luke...... 219
Rev. Herman Hoelzel – Ambitions of a ‘Presiding Rabbi’ Raymond Apple...... 233
The alterations to the interior of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, 1906-1911: Architecture and Ideology* Benjamin Elton...... 243
‘I saw it my way’: Rabbi L.A. Falk and the ‘Jewish Legion’ of World War One Rodney Gouttman...... 260
Gallipoli: The Making of an officer – How Private Horace Hyman Fryberg, No 2304, became Chaplain Lieutenant Colonel Alan Harvey-Brooks Nerrida Blashki Pohl...... 278
Henry James Isaac Topal: A soldier’s fatal fascination with New Guinea Russell Stern...... 300
Dunera Boy, SOE Agent and War Crimes Investigator: The extraordinary life of A.W. Freud Elisabeth Lebensaft...... 316
A life of ‘Jewish Difference’. The Story of Rudolpf Klein (1866-1943) Emilie Kolb and Matthias Marschik...... 332 214 Australian Jewish Historical Society
Unfathomable Journey: The Context of Dr Otto Walter’s Departure from Australia Garry Walter...... 364
BOOK REVIEWS Jewish Life in Queensland: Celebrating 150 Years since 1865 By Jennifer Creese Helen Bersten...... 385
The Private War of Solomon William Jacobs By Susan Nicholls Russell Stern...... 386
Obtuaries Helen Lorain Rasko...... 390 Tribute to Joachim Schneeweiss...... 393
President’s Report...... 399
Errata...... 404
Genealogical Enquiries...... 405
New Members...... 406
Contributors...... 407
Opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not reflect the official position of the Society
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AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL
November 2017 Vol. XXIII Part 3
Editors’ Introduction...... 415 Reds Under the Bed: The Security Service’s Interest in My Family Michael Komesaroff...... 418 Writing Jewish Carlton Serge Liberman...... 477 ‘Jewish Life Appears to be Frozen, Static, Like a Puppet Play’: Pinchas Goldhar’s Struggle for Yiddish Cultural Authenticity in Australia Pam Maclean...... 491 Pinchas Goldhar Remembered William D. Rubinstein...... 501 Drummond Street Pinchas Goldhar...... 505 Against the Odds: The AIF Hebrew Chaplaincy of World War Two Rodney Gouttman...... 508 ‘An Excellent Dumping Ground for the Central European Rejects’: Refugee Teachers at the Melbourne University Conservatorium in the 1930s Albrecht Dümling...... 533 ‘An Old Feud Oft-Times Renewed’: The Emergence of Orthodox- Liberal Relations in Sydney Mark Rapaport...... 552 Book Reviews Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian Military By Mark Dapin ...... 589 Falling Stars: The Story of Anzacs from Ukraine By Elena Govor...... 590 The Vanished Musicians: Jewish Refugees in Australia By Albrecht Dümling Translated from the German by Diana K. Weekes...... 592
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Their Lives Before Us By Dagmar Strauss Yaari...... 597 Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust By Harry Borden...... 599 My Vice-Regal Life: Diaries 1978 to 1982 By Lady Anna Cowen ...... 603 Other Material 100 Years Ago: Victoria 1917 Compiled by Lorraine Freeman...... 605 Report to Members 2017...... 608 New Members Joined AJHS Victoria Inc since November 2016...... 608 Contributors...... 610
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1 Rodney Benjamin ...... 177 Judith RaphaelRaphael Buckrich, TheTh e MontefloreMontefiore Homes,Homes, 150150 years of carecare
2 MalcolmMalcolm]. J. Turnbull ...... 179179 W.D. & H.L. Rubinstein,Rubinstein, Phi/osemiii.vmPhifosemitism Arnold Zable,Zable, Wanders and Dreamers DaleDale Jamieson,Jamieson, SingerSinger and his critics
Other Material
1.1. LetterLetter to the editoreditor ...... 182182 2. ReportRepo1t toto membersmembers ...... 183 3.3. New members ...... 184 4. NotesNotes onon contributorscontributors ...... 185
Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarilynecessarily re.fleetreflect an officialofficial position of the Society.Society. AJHS 23.4 4th Proof.qxp_AJHS 19/3 Final 18/6/18 9:52 am Page 613
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June 2018 Volume XXIII Part 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial...... 615
Symbol of Jewish continuity: the Torah finials from The Great Synagogue in Sydney* Jana Vytrhlik...... 619
Isaac Nathan: the Biographical Puzzle: Part 1, England 1791-1840* David Crowden...... 640
The World War One Military Service of the Samuel Moss Solomon Family Philip J. Powell...... 672
A twist of fate: a German Jewish refugee’s exposé of the Japanese Kavieng 1944 massacre Russell Stern...... 687
Rabbi Michael Alony and the Sydney Central Synagogue, 1976-1984 Samuel A. Oppenheim...... 699
A Demographic Analysis of Jewish Holocaust survivor Migration To Australia Gary Eckstein...... 722
Australia’s changing votes on annual Israel-related resolutions at the UN General Assembly Peter Wertheim...... 739 AJHS 23.4 4th Proof.qxp_AJHS 19/3 Final 18/6/18 9:52 am Page 614
614 Australian Jewish Historical Society
BOOK REVIEW The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: how Australia’s signals-intelligence network helped win the Pacific War By David Dufty Russell Stern...... 752 United Jewish Education Board: Celebrating 120 years Edited by Yossi Aron Raymond Apple...... 753
Obituaries Sophie Louise Caplan...... 756
President’s Report...... 761
Errata...... 765
Contributors...... 766
Opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not reflect the official position of the Society
* Indicates a peer-reviewed article