From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joseph Jacobs – folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer

Joseph, the sixth surviving son of John and Sarah Jacobs, was born on 29 August 1854 in Sydney.  His father was a publican who had emigrated from London in 1837. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Percy Marks – Sydney’s four generations of jewellers fame

Percy was born on 6 July 1879 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of London-born John Marks a jeweller, and his New Zealand-born wife Eliza Jane Levy. Read more

From Australia’s past: Moritz Michaelis – a true mensch in every sense of the word

Moritz was born on 8 November 1820 at Lügde Hanover Germany.  His father was a learned and enthusiastic Talmud scholar. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Arthur Leslie Benjamin – music was his life

Arthur was born on 18 September 1893 in Sydney and at the age of three, his family moved to Brisbane. Read more

Ancient synagogues were decorated with art. Why?

Ask the rabbi? Read more

Follow the app and discover Melbourne’s Jewish history

Enjoy ‘A Jewish Walk Through Marvellous Melbourne’ via a brand-new app launched by the Australian Jewish Historical Society-Vic. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Jacob Barrow Montefiore – Improving ship travel to the colonies

Jacob was the eldest son of Eliezer Levi Montefiore and Judith and nephew of Joseph and Jacob. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Joseph Barrow Montefiore – a trader, landowner and one of the earliest free settlers

Joseph was born in 1803 in London, the youngest son of Eliezer and Judith Levi Montefiore. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Judah Solomon –  Convict to Businessman

Judah arrived in Hobart in 1820 from England, together with his brother Joseph, as convicts for “receiving stolen goods”. Read more

A lesson from history

I have been reading about The Hundred Years’ War between France and England by Jonathan Sumption the well-known and controversial barrister, former member of the Supreme Court of Great Britain. Read more

Meet Dr Sue Silberberg

Dr Sue Silberberg has released a History Book entitled “A Networked Community – Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century”, an Academic Publication of her PhD Thesis at Melbourne University…she talks with Henry Greener. Read more

Medieval Jewish ritual bath beneath a church in Sicily

Israeli scholars have announced the discovery of a Hebrew inscription on the wall of a medieval Jewish ritual bath located deep underground beneath the Church of St. Philip the Apostle in Syracuse, Sicily. Read more

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