List of Oceanian Jews

The vast majority of Jews in Oceania (c. 120,000) live in Australia, with a small population (c. 7,000) in New Zealand. Most are Ashkenazi Jews, with many being survivors of the Holocaust arriving during and after World War II. More recently, a significant number of Jews have arrived from South Africa and Russia. The official number of people who practised Judaism in the 2001 census was only 83,459 but this number is expected to be much higher, as it did not count those overseas (i.e. dual Australian-Israeli nationals) or many non-practicing Jews who prefer not to disclose religion in the census are more common. Ironically, ever since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Australia's Jewish population has hovered around 0.5% of the total counted.

The vast majority of Australia's Jews live in inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney with smaller populations, in numerical order, in Perth, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Adelaide. Currently, there are also recognised communities in Ballarat, Bendigo/Castlemaine, Canberra, Geelong, Gosford, Hobart, Launceston and Newcastle.

In Melbourne, the Jewish population centre is Caulfield where there are streets with nearly a 100% Jewish population; the main areas of settlement spread out from Caulfield in two arcs: south through St Kilda, Elwood, Elsternwick, Brighton, Moorabbin and right down to Frankston; east through Toorak, Malvern, Hawthorn, Kew, Balwyn to Doncaster. In Sydney the major areas of Jewish settlement are in the east and on the North Shore, in particular the suburbs of Bondi, Dover Heights, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, St Ives and Hunters Hill.

In New Zealand, most Jews live in Auckland and Wellington with smaller populations in Dunedin and Christchurch. Dunedin synagogue has possibly the world's southernmost Jewish congregation.[1]

The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Australia

Academic figures

Business figures

Cultural figures

Political figures

Religious figures

Sports figures

Miscellaneous

Fiji

French Polynesia

New Zealand

Business figures

Cultural figures

Political figures

National figures

Local body politicians

Sports figures

Other figures

See also

External links

References

  1. Jews in New Zealand
  2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  3. http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A80311
  4. Interviews with Australian scientists
  5. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18012969
  6. https://au.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-isaacs-oam/28/6b0/ba1
  7. Joseph Jacobs
  8. http://chfreedman.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-hon-william-kaye-ao-qc-obituary.html
  9. Biography:University of Sydney
  10. http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/from-labour-camp-to-family-court-judge-20100806-11oe0.html
  11. Prime Minister of Australia
  12. Archived 14 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ENOUGH ROPE with Andrew Denton – episode 73: Geraldine Brooks (18/04/2005)
  14. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18746/
  15. http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/uncovering-traces-german-speaking-refugee-musicians-in-australia
  16. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/spielvogel-nathan-frederick-8607
  17. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/abrahams-joseph-4966
  18. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blaubaum-elias-12802
  19. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boas-abraham-tobias-5277
  20. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-francis-lyon-5710
  21. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/davis-alexander-barnard-3379
  22. John Levi, Rabbi Jacob Danglow: The Uncrowned Monarch of Australia's Jews, 1995, Melbourne University Publishing.
  23. Newman Rosenthal, Look Back with Pride: the St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation's first century, 1971, T. Nelson, Melbourne.
  24. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/danglow-jacob-5878
  25. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/freedman-david-isaac-6242
  26. http://www.theperthshule.asn.au/rabbi-freilich.html
  27. http://www.caulfieldshule.com.au/rabbi-genende.html
  28. http://www.oztorah.com/2011/03/rabbi-lm-goldman-a-profile/
  29. http://www.stkildashule.org/leaders/leaders_heilbrunn.asp
  30. Eliot Baskin, Werner Graff, Malcolm Turnbull, A Time to Keep:The story of Temple Beth Israel 1930 to 2005, 2005, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne.
  31. http://www.tbi.org.au/about/our-rabbis/
  32. http://www.oztorah.com/2010/08/obituary-rabbi-ronald-lubofsky-am/
  33. Eliot Baskin, Werner Graff, Malcolm Turnbull, A Time to Keep:The story of Temple Beth Israel 1930 to 2005, 2005, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne.
  34. http://www.jta.org/1930/09/29/archive/australian-jewry-excited-at-rabbi-marks-plans-to-form-liberal-jewish-organization
  35. http://jewishqld.com/about-the-jewish-community/queensland-jewish-history/
  36. Eliot Baskin, Werner Graff, Malcolm Turnbull, A Time to Keep:The story of Temple Beth Israel 1930 to 2005, 2005, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne.
  37. http://www.tbi.org.au/about/our-history/
  38. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/porush-israel-15194
  39. John Levi, My Dear Friends, 2009, Australian Jewish Historical Society, Melbourne.
  40. Eliot Baskin, Werner Graff, Malcolm Turnbull, A Time to Keep:The story of Temple Beth Israel 1930 to 2005, 2005, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne.
  41. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sanger-herman-max-11613
  42. https://emanuel.org.au/about/history-emanuel-synagogue
  43. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Jewishvirtuallibrary.com – New Zealand
  44. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  45. "Michael Hirschfeld Gallery Honours Staunch Friend of the Arts", City Gallery, Wellington
  46. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  47. 1 2 3 4 Jews in New Zealand in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  48. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  49. Biography at tv.com
  50. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  51. Jewornotjew.com
  52. Cleave, Louisa (7 February 2002). "Obituary: Angela D'Audney". The New Zealand Herald.
  53. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  54. The Richard Fuchs archive
  55. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  56. "Inside the minds of animals", Mindpowernews.com
  57. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  58. Levine, S. (1999) The New Zealand Jewish community. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Google books), p.22
  59. "Former Chief Justices", Courts of New Zealand
  60. Berry, Ruth (25 November 2006). "Will the real John Key step forward". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 November 2006. "my mother was Jewish which technically makes me Jewish"
  61. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  62. Biography in Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  63. Goldman, L.M. (1958). "Chapter XX – Jews in Industry and Commerce". The History of the Jews in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. p. 147.
  64. 1 2 NZ Jewish archives – Temple Sinai
  65. "Raisman, Down Under athletes soar among Jewish Olympians", JTA.org
  66. "Big list o' Jewish Olympians", www.jewishjournal.com
  67. Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House. ISBN 1-60280-013-8. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  68. "Herald New Zealander of the Year: Dr Peter Gluckman"
  69. NZ Jewish Archive
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 24, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.