Links

www.ajhs.info Home Page of the Australian Jewish Historical Society.
www.vic.ajhs.info Home Page of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Victoria Inc [Vic]
www.nsw.ajhs.info Home Page of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Inc [NSW]
www.journal.ajhs.info Home Page of the Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society
www.jewishhistoryaustralia.info Jewish History Australia Offers a timeline and a pictorial tour of Australian Jewish History.

Australian and NZ Sites

Archive of Australian Judaica at the University of Sydney
Aspects of Jewish Life in Australia National Archives of Australia
Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (Vic) Stores its genealogical collection at the Makor Library, Caulfield.
Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (NSW)
The Jewish Museum of Australia located in Melbourne houses the general library of AJHS (Vic).
Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre Melbourne
Virtual tour of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation The congregation has links to 1841
A collection of pictures of the oldest synagogues in Victoria With links to pages of views of other synagogues, world-wide.
On line tour of Hobart Synagogue The oldest surviving synagogue in Australia
Makor Library Melbourne. This library houses the combined AJHS (Vic) and AJGS Genealogical Collection. More info
In the Jewish Virtual Library, The Jewish Virtual History of Australia provides a good short introduction, but from an American perspective. Compare this websites timeline.

The Adelaide Jewish Museum website has very useful articles on the the Jewish history of South Australia.
John Monash: Engineering enterprise prior to WW1 is an extensive website maintained by Dr Alan Holgate,a structural engineer. The website is mostly at a popular level, but includes sections discussing the computation method used by Monash and his partner in the design of the Fyansford bridge, near Geelong, and detailed descriptions of bridge building practice.
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council has on its resources page useful links.
The Rookwood Cemetery has been the location for Jewish burials in Sydney for over 100 years. The website of the responsible Jewish Cemetery Trust is a valuable genealogical and historical source, as it gives genealogical information for (almost) every internment, together with an image of the headstone.
New Zealand Jewish Archives, NZ Jewish Archives include notes on Jewish Participation in New Zealand History.
The List of Most Important Jewish Monuments in Australia compiled by the ISMJ (The International Society for Jewish Monuments). Lack of local knowledge has resulted in some minor errors in an excellent list.
Online Articles on Australian Jewish History
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Article, The Normalcy of the Australian Jewish Experience An outstanding short history online, emphasising how Jews, in Australian from the beginnings of white settlement, have fully contributed to and participated in Australian life.
Anthony Hughes, Sport in the Australian Jewish Community Journal of Sport History, Vol 26, No 2, 1999, pp376-391
Courses in Australian Jewish History

Australian Center for the Study of Jewish Civilization at Monash University, Melbourne

The University of Melbourne Centre for Jewish History and Culture

Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, The University of Sydney

Overseas Sites

www.ajhs.org Website of the American Jewish Historical Society

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~jhse/ Website of The Jewish Historical Society of England

National Museum of American Jewish History
Jewish-American History on the Web An online archive of original documents, journals, books and literature.
www.350th.org The Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History.
The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Web-based resources for American Jewish History.

Jewish Gen Major site devoted to Jewish Genealogy

The Touro Synagogue, Rhode Island oldest synagogue in the US
Jewish History links, on Jacob Richman's Hot Sites link farm.

Australian Newspapers - Some Memorable Articles

Historical Tales

Its well known that a German Jew, Teddy Thonen was the first miner shot - and killed - when Colonial Troops stormed the Eureka Stockade.
But there's also the tale of a Jewish watchmaker named Manasha Flatow, who also had a role in the Eureka story. Manasha, had distant connections not yet fully determined to the two Flatows, awarded gold medals for Germany in the First Olympic Games of 1896, but later murdered by the Nazis.

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