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Events

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Crying in the Archives - Daniela Torsh
Eastern Suburbs
18/05/2025
1:00 pm
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Essential Elements - Exploring JewishGen, JRI Poland, JGSGB
Eastern Suburbs
15/06/2025
1:00 pm
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Heritage and Heirlooms - the unique stories behind everyday objects
Eastern Suburbs
13/07/2025
1:00 pm

Blog

Operation Jacob Consecration in Orange

On Sunday, 23 March 2025, more than 75 years after Augustus Solomon Lipman, a Jewish First World War veteran, was buried in an unmarked grave ...
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Jan Walters, Sabrina Elias & Michelle Urban OAM

AJHS preserves records in Western Australia

Subsequent to receiving a much-needed LotteryWest grant towards hiring a professional archivist, in February JHGS-WA (Jewish Historical & Genealogical Society of Western Australia) president Michelle ...
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Portrait of Augustus Lippman in 1916

Honouring Augustus Solomon Lipman

Members of the Jewish community are invited to attend the consecration of the official war grave of Jewish First World War veteran, Augustus Solomon Lipman, ...
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Peter Philippsohn interview with L’Chaim Podcast

Peter describes the AJHS’s multi-year project to catalogue more than 13,000 photos of the Australian Jewish community and the various databases that are available free ...
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Video – Gates of The Great Synagogue

Dr Jana Vythlik and Zac Levi's video documenting the restoration of the Great Synagogue's iron gates.
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Video – 19th Century Jewish Sydney

Helen Bersten OAM presentation on 19th century Jewish Sydney from the 2024 AJHS AGM.
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