From Australia’s Jewish Past: Elias Solomon Fremantle Pioneer First published in J-Wire May 2, 2023 Elias Solomon was born on 2 September 1839 in London, the youngest child of Leah and Moss Solomon. The family migrated to Australia, arriving in Sydney on 19 January 1841, but moving on in March to Adelaide, sailing on the […]
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Elias Blaubaum was a most inspirational and outstanding member of the Melbourne Jewish Community as Minister of the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation for thirty-one years and editor of the Jewish Herald for almost twenty-five.
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From Australia’s Jewish Past: Frances Barkman teacher and welfare worker First published in J-Wire January 17, 2023 Frances Barkman was born in in Kyev Russia in March 1885. Her father was a teacher of Hebrew. The family migrated to Melbourne in 1891 and she was educated at Rathdowne Street State School and the Melbourne Training
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From Australia’s Jewish Past: Maximilian Hirsch leading light in the colony’s free-trade movement First published in J-Wire January 10, 2023 Maximilion Hirsch was born in Cologne, in the German state of Prussia, on 21 September 1852. He was educated at the local primary and secondary school but it appears that was the end of his
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From Australia’s Jewish Past: Sir Benjamin Benjamin a Victorian community pioneer First published in J-Wire July 12, 2022 Benjamin Benjamin was born on 2 September 1834 in London, the eldest son of Moses and Catherine. The family emigrated to Melbourne arriving on 29 December 1843. Once finished school, he joined his father and brother Elias
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From Australia’s Jewish Past: Harold Boas Architect, Town Planner and Community Leader First published in J-Wire March 29, 2022 Harold Boas was born 27 September 1883 in Adelaide, the third son of ten children of Abraham and Elizabeth Boas. He was educated at Whinham and Prince Alfred Colleges in Adelaide and went on to study
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South Australian Rabbi Abraham Tobias Boas (1842-1923) was born into a family of distinguished Jewish scholars and ministers who had fled from Poland to Holland late in the seventeenth century.
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Roy Levy was born in 1906 in Sydney. His sporting career took off between 1924 and 1928 when he played cricket and baseball for the Waverley Club in Sydney. In cricket, he was a left-handed batsman, and in baseball, he was a right-handed medium-pace bowler.
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Was Leonard “Jock” Livingston the best Jewish batsman Australia ever produced?
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From Australia’s Jewish Past: Samuel Burmister SPORTSMAN & SIDESHOW STRONGMAN First published in J-Wire February 24, 2022 Samuel (Sam) Burmister, was born in Estonia in 1897 and participated in the 1912 Olympics for Russia as a wrestler With the situation in Russia worsening for Jews, he set off on a world tour ending up in
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