AJHS Person record statistics
Jump into various statistics from the AJHS Person record database, including the most common names and birth places.
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Introducing the Person Record
We are excited to introduce the Person record to AJHS Collections. The person record is different than other record types as it is an aggregation and linkage of existing records in our database. At a high level, the person record were first created from data in our burial records, and then much effort was spent
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Newspaper articles linked to marriages and burials
The AJHS website has added an exciting feature that gives further context to some of our large datasets. Many AJHS burial and marriage records now include a link to relevant newspaper articles. To show you how this works, let’s look at Mark Rosenberg‘s burial record from 1919 in Broome. On the left-hand side below the
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The Jewish Press of Australia – Steadman 1964
The Australian Jewish Historical Society’s Journal, June 1943, contained an article contributed by the late Percy J. Marks dealing with the Jewish Press in Australia. In that article, Mr Marks traced the beginning and the development of Jewish publications in Australia. The original paper on that subject was read by him before a meeting of the Jewish Literary and Debating Society of Sydney in 1913.
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The Jewish Press of Australia – Marks 1943
…tonight to speak of the Jewish Press of Australia. To an outsider, there would seem hardly sufficient scope for an article on this subject, but I think that although I may not be able to do full justice to the paper, my hearers will be convinced that this subject is really one, if not the chief, source, of the annals of Jewry. The future historian will be largely indebted for his facts to the records of the newspapers, and a careful search through the Jewish Press both of England and Australia will give information that is not otherwise obtainable
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75 YEARS – The History of a Jewish Newspaper
SEVENTY FIVE YEARS – The History of a Jewish Newspaper A MONOGRAPH BY SUZANNE RUTLANDORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY AJHS IN 1970 For those interested in successive writings on the Australian Jewish press, Suzanne Rutland’s Seventy Five Years – The History of a Jewish Newspaper was published by the Society in 1970. In the words of Rabbi
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Rav Elias Blaubaum – Minister, Media Maven
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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Maurice Abraham Cohen – Sydney’s First Jewish Educator
Maurice “Moses” Abraham Cohen was a noted linguist and a pioneer of Jewish Education in Sydney. He also edited some of Sydney’s pioneer Jewish newspapers and campaigned for the rights of Indigenous Australians.
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