pioneers

Intern Archivist Ava McConnell takes us inside the collection of personal papers of Marcelle Marks, whose research revealed the lives of Jewish farmers across Australia, between the 1850s and the early 2000s. She published the article ‘Jews on the Land: Mutual Farms and Mooringa’, in the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal in 2019; and she contributed to the exhibition ‘The Jewish Agricultural Experience in the Diaspora’, held at Beth Hatefotsoth in 1983.