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Next Meeting To celebrate the 70th Birthday of the Australian Jewish Historical Society a Dinner will be held Sunday 7th Deptember, 2008, in the Israel Green Auditorium, the Great Synagogue, Sydney. Dr Anthony Joseph, president of the JHSE is the after dinner speaker. pdf file | Size 292.9 KB |
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20080907 The AJHS 70th Birthday Party To celebrate the 70th Birthday of the Australian Jewish Historical Society a Dinner will be held Sunday 7th Deptember, 2008, in the Israel Green Auditorium, the Great Synagogue, Sydney. Dr Anthony Joseph, president of the JHSE is the after dinner speaker. pdf file | Size 292.9 KB |
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20080225 Dr Billingheimer in Australia ( Raymond Apple ) Rabbi Raymond Apple will talk about his teacher when growing up in Melbourne, Dr Billingheimer htm file | Size 2.21 KB |
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20071104 AGM and Reflections on NZ Jewry ( Paul Morris) Jews were among the first European settlers to New Zealand, the community dating from 1840. This paper looks at the Jews of New Zealand today against the background of this history, focussing on recent developments and will include discussion of politics, Israel and Zionism, Orthodoxy and Progressive relationships, the youth movements and Kiwi Jews living overseas. htm file | Size 3.35 KB |
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20070325 Nazi War Crimes Investigations and Trials in Australia ( Konrad Kweit ) Was it all in vain? Holocaust awareness among the general public in Australia is minimal, despite belated war crimes legislation, 843 thorough investigations, three unsuccessful trials, and two aborted extradition proceedings (with one pending). htm file | Size 9.6 KB |
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20061203 AGM and From Catastrophe to Sanctuary ( M Abrahams-Sprod ) As a result of Nazism, over seventy Jewish Magdeburger settled in Australia at various intervals, both prior to and after World War II. Their emigration experiences from Germany; their reception into both the Jewish and general communities; their eventual acculturation and life experiences; and their attitudes toward their former home and fellow-citizens provide a rich tapestry and insight into this small group of individuals who were forced to re-invent themselves and their lives. This presentation will focus on the emigration experiences and the early experiences of life in Australia of this group of immigrants from one of Germany’s oldest Jewish communities. htm file | Size 17.74 KB |
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20051211 AGM and Countering Holocaust Deniers ( Jeremy Jones ) htm file | Size 9.02 KB |
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20050619 Jewish Immigration from Egypt to Australia ( Racheline Barda ) Racheline Barda will explain how the political climate within Egypt made it impossible for Jews to continue living there, thus ending a history that goes back 25 centuries. She will focus on their dispersion after the exodus in the 1950s and 60s and the immigration of a small group of Egyptian Jews to Australia, explaining why so many settled in Adelaide, their impact on the local Jewish community and their overall contribution. When she tried to establish a profile of the typical Egyptian Jewish migrant, she found that it was in fact that diversity that constituted their distinctive identity, such as their continued use of French between themselves, their multilingual dexterity, and their ethnicity. What they all seem to have in common is an innate ability not only to adapt to their new environment but also to communicate and mix on a personal level with people from other ethnic backgrounds. This is what ensured their smooth integration in Australian mainstream society. htm file | Size 1.55 KB |
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20050410 Who are Sephardi Jews ( Dr Myer Samra ) The term \"Sepharad\" is generally used in Hebrew to identify Spain or the Iberian Peninsula, and \"Sephardi\" implies \"Spanish\" or associated with Spain. Yet many Jewish communities regarded as Sephardim would seem to have the most tenuous of relationships with Spain. While some Sephardi Jews can point to ancestors who lived in Spain, others do not, and do not even pretend to have had ancestors in Spain. htm file | Size 11.7 KB |
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