Ernest Samuel Marks CBE – sportsman, Sydney’s first Jewish Lord Mayor; wool buyer, politician, and community identity
Keen sportsman, businessman and politician.
Joel Samuel Polack – one of New Zealand’s first Jewish settlers
Wrote two books promoting The Land of the White Cloud
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Lewis Wolfe Levy – widely respected businessman, politician and community stalwart
Reflective of his contributions, a fountain in the Sydney Botanical Gardens is in his memory.
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Siba Coppelson – mother of two knights and a most remarkable woman
Integral to development of Wee Waa, NSW and CWA life member
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Joseph Sternberg – one of the ‘great personalities’ of Bendigo
A highly successful businessman and politician from Bendigo.
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The Hon. Edward Aaron Cohen
Second Victorian Parliamentarian whose example and commitment to both the Jewish and general community has inspired many of Australia’s Jewish public figures.
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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 in Orange General Cemetery, 45 people attended the consecration of his official war grave. ‘Gus’ Lipman died in Orange Base Hospital in 1949, but like 105 other diggers and a
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Ruby Sophia Rich-Shalit – Feminist, pianist and an outstanding community identity
Passionate suffragette and musician born in the Outback and campaigned in Europe and the Middle East.
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Shlomo Weintraub – Samuel Wynn – Wine Merchant and active Zionist
A successful wine merchant, Weintraub was elected President of the Jewish National Library in Melbourne – known as Kadimah – a position he held twelve times. In 1922 he helped establish the Victorian Jewish Welcome Society…
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Joseph Jacobs – folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer
Joseph came to be regarded as one of the foremost experts on English folklore as well as one of the leading authorities on fairy tales and the migration of fables.