ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Jewish History Australia Homepage</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- function popup(mylink, windowname) { if (! window.focus)return true; var href; if (typeof(mylink) == 'string') href=mylink; else href=mylink.href; window.open(href, windowname, 'width=250,height=150,scrollbars=no'); return false; } //--> </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY text=#000080 link=#000080 bgColor=#ffffd2> <TABLE WIDTH= 1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=#FDD017><!-- gold --> <TR> <TD width =225 VALIGN="top" align="left"> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/First_Flag.jpg" width=100 height=50> </a> <TD width = 350> <font size =+3> <strong> <center> A Tour of Jewish History in Australia</strong> <br> </font><font size=+1> www.jewishhistoryaustralia.net</strong></center> </font> <TD width= 125> <!-- <TD valign="top"> On this website just click on the early Australian flag on top-left to <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net"> transfer to Home Page</a> of Jewish History Australia. --> <TD valign="top"> <center> <font size =+2><b> The Jewish Narrative of History</B> </font> <br> <a href="http://theroar.info"> <font size =+2><b> PODCAST</font>s</b> </A> <br> <em>As broadcast on Lion FM</em> </center> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE width =1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=#ffffff> <TR> <TD width =50> <TD width=913> Click on the shadowed text to view <br><br><a href="timeline.htm" ><center> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/timeline_banner.jpg" width =891 height=72></A></center> <br><br> <TD width =50> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE WIDTH= 1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 cellspacing=0 > <TR> <TR> <TD width =680 VALIGN ="TOP"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/Beersheba_Charge.jpg" width =696 height=176 "Classix pix of the charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba"> <TD VALIGN =TOP width=200> <br><br> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/timeline.htm#israel" > <center><font size=+1><b> Australia<br>and<br>Israel</a></center></font></b> <div align="right"> <em>To Right:<br> Cover of recent book by Chanan Reich.</em></p> <TD width =27> <TD width=116 VALIGN ="TOP"> <img src ="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/Australia_and_Israel.jpg" width=116 height=176> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE WIDTH= 1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 cellspacing=0 > <TR> <TD width=200 VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=CENTER><a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/ElizabethCohen.php" > <img src="th_ElizabethCohen.jpg" width=200 height=290 border=0 Alt="The Elizabeth Cohen, which voyaged between Sydney and Port Macquarie 1834-1846"></A> <br><a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/ElizabethCohen.php" > JEWS <br> and <br> BOATS</a> <TD width=200 VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=CENTER> <img src="th_Alexander_Marks.jpg" width =200 height=290 Alt="Pix of Alexander Marks in consular regalia complete with sword"> <BR> INTERNATIONAL <BR> TRADE <TD width=200 VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=CENTER> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/Jews_in_Commerce.php"> <img src="th_CohenCarpetKing.jpg" width =200 height=290 Alt="Staff of Cohen's Furniture Emporium early twentieth century" > <BR> JEWS <br>in<br> COMMERCE</a> <TD width=216 VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=CENTER> <img src="th_Chapel_of_Chic.jpg" width=216 height=290 Alt="Flyer for premiere of movie Chapel of Chic"> <BR> SCHMATTES: <br> the <br>clothing <br>trade <TD width=197 VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=CENTER> <a href= "http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/portraits.php" > <img src="th_Rabbi_Levi2.jpg" width =197 height=290 border=0 Alt="Churcher portrait of Rabbi John Levi"> <br>PORTRAITS</a><br>of<BR> Notables </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE WIDTH= 1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 cellspacing=0 > <TR> <TD width =200 valign=TOP bgcolor=#FDD017><!-- gold --> <center> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/Australian_flag_before_1909.png" width=120 height=60 alt="The proclaimed Australian flag 1903-1909 featuring six-pointed Federation Star"> </center> The Australian flag features a Union Jack, symbolic of our British connection, the five stars of the Southern Cross, and a large Federation Star. Above is the official flag of Australia 1903 to 1909 which features a six pointed Federation Star, in the outline shape of the Star of David. The six points denoted the six states that were united at Federation. With the acquisition of the first "Territory" the Federation Star became seven pointed, and has remained so since. <br><br> <td width =30 bgcolor=#AAAAFF> <TD width=783 vALIGN=TOP bgcolor=#AAAAFF> <font size=+2> <strong>Australian Jewish History</strong></font> Jews have been an integral part of Australia s history since the beginning of European settlement. In the First Fleet that landed in Sydney in 1788 there were at least 14 Jews, and Jews participated in the initialisation of the first settlement in Port Phillip, the establishment of Hobart, Melbourne, and Adelaide. And the story continues, with the numerically small Jewish population in the forefront of development of Australia, <br><br> The very first constable was a Jew, as was the printer of the original "Australian" newspaper (Sydney, 1836), and as was the composer of the first Australian opera. Jews have participated in the pioneering settlement of Australia, in public affairs, in the drafting of the Australian Constitution, in the professions, in the Arts, in commerce and trade, and in the development of industry and technology in Australia. Of especial high prominence are the two Victorians <TABLE width =783 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 cellspacing=0 > <TR> <TD width =98> <td width=82 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="LEFT"><img src="th_Monash.jpg" width=80 height=100> <TD width=136>Sir John Monash the leader of the Australian Forces in World War I <td width =130> <TD width=135>Sir Isaac Isaacs the first Australian-born Governor General <td width=80 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER"><img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/th_Isaacs.jpg" width=80 height=100> <TD width =100> </TR> </TABLE> In sum, Jews have participated fully and equally in the course of Australian history starting with the First Fleet of 1788. <br><br><center><em> Click on the timeline banner to see the detailed sweep of this history, or click on the links to particular topics.</em></center> </TABLE> <TABLE width=1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 > <TR> <td width=200 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER"> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/Eureka.htm" ><img src="th_Eureka.jpg" width=200 height=100 border=0 Alt="Eureka flag"></a><a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/Eureka.htm" ><b>JEWS of EUREKA</B></a> <td width=400 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER"> <img src="th_Ita_Buttrose_Signature.jpg" width=400 height=100 Alt="Ita Buttrose signature"><b>Ita Buttrose and many other Australians have Jewish forebears</b> <td width=80 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER"> <img src="th_Monash.jpg" width=80 height=100 Alt="pix of Monash from $50 note"><br><b>MONASH</B> <td width=165 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER" bgcolor=#ffffff> <a href="./holocaust_brief.htm" > <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/Auschwitz100.jpg" width =165 height=100 border=0 Alt="Winter view of the gates of Auschwitz"> HOLOCAUST</a> <TD width=20 > <TD width = 158 VALIGN="TOP" bgcolor=#ffffff > <font color=#0>The Australian Jewish Community has the highest percentage of Holocaust survivors of any diaspora community.</font> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE width=1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=#FDD017><!-- gold --> <TR> <TD width=141 VALIGN=TOP> <a href="Jews_and_Aborigines.htm"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/ab_flagB.jpg" width=141 height=94 border=0 Alt="Aboriginal flag"></a> <TD WIDTH=20> <TD width= 219 VALIGN=TOP><a href="Jews_and_Aborigines.htm" > Individual Jews, and since 1964 Jewish organizations, have been involved in the fight for aboriginal rights.</A> <TD WIDTH=20> <TD WIDTH =210> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/sites.htm" > <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/th_HistoricSites.jpg" height=100 width=210 border=0 Alt="Historic Sites"></A> <td width = 227> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/stories/MyJewishCarlton.htm" > <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/th_Kadimah.jpg" width=227 height=100 border=0> </a> <td width=10> <TD Width =207> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/stories/MyJewishCarlton.htm" > My Jewish Carlton:</a> the centre of Jewish Melbourne up to about 1960. <td> </TR> </TABLE> <br><br> <TABLE width=1013 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 > <TR> <TD width=266 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 valign="top"> <a href="ThePeopleOfTheBoot.htm"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/PeopleOfTheBoot.jpg" width=266 height=200 border=0 Alt="Alex Jezalenko high mark Grand final 1970"> </a> <TD VALIGN="TOP"> <!-- 1013 -266 = 747 Inner Table A --> <!-- <TABLE width=747 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 > <TR> --> <td width=170 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN=TOP> <a href="PeterGinz.htm"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/th_PeterGinzStamp.jpg" width=68 height=100 border=0 Alt="Czek stamp celebrating Peter Ginz"> </A> <br><br> <a href="PeterGinz.htm"> The Story of Peter Ginz </a> <TD width=224 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 VALIGN=TOP ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> <A HREF="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/index_artists.htm"> <IMG SRC="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/th_OzzieJewishArtists.jpg" width=224 height=100 border=0 Alt="Ozzie Jewish Artists montage of 3 images of Rimona Kedem"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/jewishartytypes.jpg" width =224 height=95 border=0 Alt="Jewish Arty Types"></a> <TD wIDTH=283 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="JUSTIFY" bgcolor=#ffffff> <A HREF="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/NewspaperCuttings.htm"> <IMG SRC="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/th_NewspaperCuttings.jpg" width = 283 height=100 border=0 Alt="Newspaper Cuttings"></A> <font colr=#0> The expulsion of the Jews from the Islamic states that encircle Israel is discussed with <a href="http://TheRoar.info">detailed statistics</a> at <a href="http://TheRoar.info">TheRoar.info</a> podcast site. <!-- <TD width=200 align=top bgcolor=#ffffff> <a href="Nobel.php"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/Nobel_Prize_Citation.jpg" width=200 height=200 border=0 Alt="Certificate awarded to Nobel Prize winners with Australian as awardee name"> </a> --> <br><br> <a href="Nobel.php"><center> <font size=+2> Australian and New Zealand Jewish <br> <b>Nobel Prize Winners</b></a> </center> </font> <TD width=172 valign=top> <a href ="http://theroar.info"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/AJN-Egypt-Throws-Out-Jews.jpg" width=172 height=250 border=0 Alt="Front page of Australian Jewish News with headline EGYPT THROWS OUT JEWS"></a> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE width=1013 bgcolor=#FDD017><!-- gold --> <TR> <Td width = 130 Valign=MIDDLE><a href="http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/110818-Henry---Lawson-Joseph-s-Dreams-and-Reuben-s-Brethren" TARGET=NEW> <iMG SRC="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/HenryLawson.jpg" border=0 Alt="Portrait of Henry Lawson" width =146 height=189 ></a> <br> <TD Width =140 VALIGN=MIDDLE> <strong> <center> Henry Lawson <br> 1867-1922 <br><br> </center> <Center><em> <a href="http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/110818-Henry---Lawson-Joseph-s-Dreams-and-Reuben-s-Brethren" TARGET=NEW> Joseph's Dreams <br> and <br> Reuben's Brethren</em><strong></a> <br><br> 1905 </center> <td width = 270 Valign=middle align=justify > In colonial Australia a detailed knowledge of the Torah (aka Old Testament) was held by all literate (and semi-literate) Australians. Hence in this colourful and popular poem the biblical saga of Jacob-Isaac and Joseph <a href="http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/110818-Henry---Lawson-Joseph-s-Dreams-and-Reuben-s-Brethren" TARGET=NEW> is expressed in terms of the Outback</a> by the nationalist writer hero Henry Hertzberg Lawson who proclaims "My best friend was a Yid". [Click to read poem - new window]. <td width = 189 > <a href="http://www.yosselbirstein.org/" Target = "NEW"> <iMG SRC="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/YosselBirstein.jpg" border=0 width =189 height=189 Alt= "Sketch of Yossi Birstein by Yosi Bergner"></a> <td align=justify> Acclaimed as Australia's most talented Yiddish poet, <a href="http://www.yosselbirstein.org/" Target = "NEW"> Yossel Birstein</a> (1920-2003) grew up in Poland, with Yiddish as his mother tongue, coming to Australia when still a teenager. At age 24, he learnt his family had been lost in the Holocaust, and "his poetry rises to the task of commemorating them, and people of his hometown Biala-Podolsk as well - in unsentimental yet heartrending lyrical verses" Birstein's collected poems, translated into both English and Hebrew, are now online at <a href="http://www.yosselbirstein.org/" Target = "NEW"> http://www.yosselbirstein.org/</a> [ Link opens in a new window. ]. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE> <TR> <Td width = 130 Valign=MIDDLE><a href="www.warrenfahey.com/bush_poetry-moses" TARGET=NEW> <iMG SRC="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/JackMoses.jpg" border=0 Alt="Portrait of Jack Moses" width =146 height=189 ></a> <!-- <br> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/DogOnTuckerBox.jpg" height=189 width = 249" Alt ="Dog Sat on Tucker Box statue 9 miles from Gundagai"> --> <TD Width =140 VALIGN=MIDDLE> <strong> <center> Jack Moses <br> 1861-1945 <br><br> </center> <Center><em> <a href="www.warrenfahey.com/bush_poetry-moses" TARGET=NEW> Nine Miles <br> From Gundagai</em><strong></a> <br><br> </center> <td width = 270 Valign=middle align=justify > Jack Moses was a bush balladeer who recited poetry at agricultural shows and the like. One of his favourite authors was Henry Lawson, who in the poem <em>Joseph s Dreams</em> says of him  my best friend was a Yid . His own most well known poem is the classic <a href="www.warrenfahey.com/bush_poetry-moses" TARGET=NEW> "Nine Miles from Gundagai" </a>[Click to read poem and biography of Moses in a new window]. Moses was buried in the Anglican section of South Head Cemetery, Sydney. <!-- <td width =249 VALIGN=top> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/DogOnTuckerBox.jpg" height=189 width = 249" Alt ="Dog Sat on Tucker Box statue 9 miles from Gundagai"> --> <td width=10> <td width =433 align="justify"> Saul Mendelsohn was another outstanding Jewish bush balladeer. In the 1880's he penned <em>Brisbane Ladies </em>, with opening verse <pre>Farewell and adieu to you, Brisbane ladies Farewell and adieu, you maids of Toowong We've sold all our cattle and we have to get a movin' But we hope we shall see you again before long </pre> with a debt to the British sea song <em> Spanish Ladies</em> about British sailors returning to England from Spain. <br>Another member of the same family, the musicologist Oscar Mendelsohn, researched the origins of <em><b>Walzing Matilda</b></em> with lyrics by Banjo Paterson, to establish that the original arrangement was by Harry Nathan, a grandson of Isaac Nathan (the "Father of Australian Music") See <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/2-Vers-Harry_Nathan.html">Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?</a> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE width =1013> <TR> <TD WIDTH=549 VALIGN="TOP"bgcolor=#AAAAFF> <TABLE> <TR> <td width =300 VALIGN="top"> <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/JewishRadioAustraliaNow.htm" TARGET = NEW> <img src = "http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/lionfm_logo.jpg" height=300 width =300 Alt ="Lion FM logo" border=0></A> <td width = 249 VALIGN="top" align="justify"> Radio spectrum at FM 96.1 was acquired in January 2010 for a Jewish FM Radio Station called <a href="http://lionfm.org">Lion FM</a> which commenced broadcasting in Melbourne July 11, 2010, after 4 weeks of test transmission. This <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/JewishRadioAustraliaNow.htm">article</a> discusses the 60 year history of Jewish radio in Australia, which to date has included segments in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish on Australian "community" and "ethnic" radio stations. These "Jewish" broadcasts have been of 15 or 30 minutes duration, broadcast weekly or rarely bi-weekly, whereas <a href="http://lionfm.org">Lion FM</a> aims to broadcast 24/6. </TR> </TABLE> <BR> Lion FM became live on the internet on September 1, 2010 while various programs have since become available online on the internet as podcasts, notably: <TABLE width=549 border =2 bgcolor=#FDD017><!-- gold --> <TR> <TD width=180> <B>&nbsp; Program <TD width =180><b>&nbsp; Podcasting URL <TD ><b>&nbsp; Notes </TR> <TR> <TD><b>&nbsp; The Luv Shack<TD> <a href="http://theluvshack.net"> <b>www.theluvshack.net</a> <TD>&nbsp; Jewish dating program <br>&nbsp;for 25-35 year olds</TR> <TD> &nbsp;<b>Mornings with Lion</b><TD>&nbsp;<a href= "http://www.morningswithlion.com/podcast.html"> <b>Mornings with Lion</b></a> <td>&nbsp;Weekday Morning Show <br>&nbsp;Weekdays 8-9 am</TR> <TR> <TD><b>&nbsp; The World and Us<TD> &nbsp; <a href="http://theroar.info"><b>www.theroar.info<TD> &nbsp; The Jewish narrative:<br> &nbsp; contemporary history. <TR> <TD><b>&nbsp; Neshima Mizrahi<br> &nbsp; àéÞÔ ÞÖè×Ùê <br>&nbsp; <em>Sephardic Soul</em> <TD> <!-- &nbsp; <a href="http://lea-k.info"><b>www.lea-k.info</a> <br> --> The only Sephardic cultural program on Australian radio. <br> In Hebrew<TD> ÔêÕÛàÙê ÔÙ×ÙÓÔ ÑÐÕáØèÜÙÔ ÔàÕêàê ÑÞÔ ÜÞÕÖÙçÔ ÙÝ êÙÛÕàÙê ÞÖè×Ùê ÕÔêèÑÕê ÔáäèÓÙê <br> &nbsp;Hosted by Lea Katanov </TR> <TR> <TD><b>&nbsp;Artytypes</b> <br><br>&nbsp;hosted by Nita Jaye <TD> &nbsp;<a href="http://artytypes.com.au">www.artytypes.com.au</a> <TD align="justify"> Interviews and profiles of people in the Arts. Weekly short story. </TR> </TABLE> <img src ="../pix/JBC-logo-top.jpg" width=549 height=66> <br>JBC = Jewish Broadcasting Community, established around March 2011, aims promote Jewish Broadcasting, both radio and TV, in both Sydney and Melbourne. <!--In July its executive included two former <a href="http://jccv.org.au>JCCV</a> executives. See <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/LionFMNow.htm"> here</a> for a sketch of relations of MJR to JBC.--> <TD VALIGN="TOP" align="JUSTIFY" width=464 bgcolor=#AAAAFF> <table width=100%> <TD width=196 vALIGN="TOP"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/LionFM-tower.jpg" height =490 width =196 Alt="Lion FM Anenna"> <td vALIGN="TOP"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/tower-view.jpg" width=268 height=150 Alt="View from transmission room"> <br> View over Docklands from the tower <br><br> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/Amit.jpg" width=268 height= 150 Alt="Amit Rehak then station co-manager"> <br> Amit selects twiddles Lion FM transmission. <br><br> Transmitting aerial is with other aerials on this tower atop a 54 storey building in the Melbourne CBD. </tr><TR> <TD COLSPAN =2 align="justify"> <img src="../flags/magen-dovid-mike.jpg" width =72 height=67 align = left> <!-- h=67 w=72 --> <font size=+2> <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/JewishRadioAustraliaNow.htm"> The History of Jewish Radio in Australia</a></font> <br> An overview of a story that starts in 1949. How multicultural Australia agencies first fostered then choked Jewish radio. <br><font size=+2> <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/JewishRadioNow.htm"> ... and in the World</a></font> <center> <img src="../flags/magen-dovid-mike.jpg" width =36 height=33> <!-- h=67 w=72 --> <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/JewishRadioNow.htm"> <img src="../flags/ca_small.gif" width=65 height=32> <img src="../flags/fr_flag.gif" width=65 height=32> <img src="../flags/sweden_flag.gif"width=65 height=32> <img src="../flags/southafrica_flag.gif" width=65 height=32> <img src="../flags/denmark_flag.gif"width=65 height=32> <img src="../flags/au_flag.gif" width=65 height=32> </a> </center> Since circa 1997 Jewish Radio Stations have emerged throughout the Jewish diaspora, as detailed in <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/JewishRadioNow.htm"> www.TheHistoryOfNow.net/JewishRadioNow.htm</a> with brief station histories and website links. <br> The ongoing story of how/why Lion FM lost its community radio license in June 2011 <a href="http://TheHistoryOfNow.net/LionFMNow.htm">www.TheHistoryOfNow.net/LionFMNow.htm</a> is presented with links to relevant docs. Lion FM continues for the moment by broadcasting its regular programs on the internet at <a href="http://www.lionfm.org">www.LionFM.org</a> with a glimmer of hope of radio broadcasting recommencing early 2012, </TR> </TABLE> <!-- <TD VALIGN = "Top" align="JUSTIFY"> <br> <font size=+2> The Australian Jewish Community - Demographic Timeline </font> <br><br>  A polyglot diaspora community that dates from the beginnings of European settlement in Australian was transformed mid twentieth century by as huge influxes of holocaust era refugees augmented by Jews expelled from Arab countries and Iran. It is well-known that Australia has more holocaust refugees than any other country except Israel -- not so well known is the immigration of Jews expelled from Egypt, Iran, Iraq and other lands <br><br> Towards the end of the century there were two other major migrations -- Jews from Russia -- and Jews from South Africa. --> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE> <TR> <TD width=670 align="justify" VALIGN="TOP"> <A HREF="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/index_artists.htm"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/jewishartytypes.jpg" width =670 height=288></a> This striking stained glass design is by Nita Jaye. Nita was born to Middle East refugees -- her parents from Iraq were two of the one million Jews dispossessed and expelled from Arab lands 1945 -1953. The 3000 year old Jewish community of Iraq had survived despite "dhimmi" status following the Arabian invasion circa 800 AD. But Nita's parents - and all Iraqi Jews - had faced increasing discrimination subsequent to the fascist inspired Arabian Nationalism that arose in 1930. Nita's mother as a school student was the top student in Classical Arabic in Iraq and won a scholarship for University Study at the American University of Beirut. ( Her family had hid their Jewishness very well by adopting an Arabic sounding name.) <br><br> More about Nita Jaye and other Australian Jewish artists is <A HREF="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/index_artists.htm"> here.</a> <td width=10> <TD align="justify" width =333> <center> <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/Nulla_Nulla_Story"> <image src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/pix/WallagaLakeCaptioned.jpg" width =331 height=249 border=0></a> </center> From late 1964 to early 1966 the official Jewish Student group at the Australian National Univeristy established and ran a children's club, the Nulla Nullas, on the aboriginal village adjacent to the Wallaga Lake in southern New South Wales. One striking aspect of this club was it carried out charitable activities in the broader community. Another aspect was the establishment of some life-long links between some Wallaga Lake village residents and members of Australian Jewry. <br><br> Click on the image above or <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/Nulla_Nulla_Story">here</a> to view a detailed account of the <a href="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/Nulla_Nulla_Story"> Nulla Nulla Club for aboriginal children at Wallaga Lake.</a> Nulla Nulla Club. </TR> </TABLE> </TR> </TABLE> <br><br> <TABLE width=1013> <TR> <TD WIDTH =40> <CENTER> <font size=+2> T <BR> H <br> E <BR><BR> H <BR> O <BR> L <BR> O <BR> C <BR> A <BR> U <BR> S <BR> T <BR> </CENTER> </FONT> </TD> <TD width =400 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> <a href="http://thehistoryofnow.net/Kovno/"> <img src="http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/Kovno/HR/UndergroundSchoolKovno_JCCV.jpg" border=0 width=400 height=500> </a> </TD> <TD width=20> <TD VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="JUSTIFY" > After the German invasion of Lithuania those Jews who survived the actions of Lithuanian "patriots" ahead of the arrival of the German Army, and had not been murdered by the NAZI "Eizengruppen" in the first days of occupation, were confined to ghettos. <br> The day by day story of events in the Kovno ghetto were meticulouly recorded by the Jewish leaders of the Kovno Ghetto. These records, hidden before the "liquidation" of the Ghetto, were found post-war, so that a detailed history of life and death in the Kovno Ghetto exists. <br> After a brief period during which schools were established in the Ghetto, all such activity was banned. As an act of resistance, in fact a school continued to operate, in hidden places in the Ghetto, the so-called <a href="http://thehistoryofnow.net/Kovno"> Underground School</a> of the Kovno Ghetto. <br>As part of the Nazi thorough-going genocide, the birth of Jewish children was banned, and pregnant women if discovered were aborted. Nevertheless a few children were born in the ghetto, and by the courageous actions of one Ghetto resident, who travelled outside the ghetto seeking willing foster-parents, these children were saved. <br><a href="http://thehistoryofnow.net/Kovno/"> This story has an Australian connection:</a> One of these "illegal" babies born in the Kovno Ghetto smuggled outside who was the daughter of the lead teacher in the underground school - - now lives in Australia. <br> But even more amazing, this baby who survived and came to Australia was the daughter of the courageous woman, who with bleached hair, and not wearing the Star who found willing foster parents outside the ghetto, and organised the baby smuggling. Her father was the school teacher shown in the image to the left of the <a href="http://thehistoryofnow.net/Kovno/"> Underground School </a> in the Kovno Ghetto. </TD> </Tr> <TR> <TD > <CENTER> <font size=+2> T <BR> H <br> E <BR><BR> S <BR> E <BR> P <BR> H <BR> I <BR> R <BR> D <BR> I <BR> M <BR> </CENTER> </FONT> <TD width =400 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> <br><br> <center><font size=+2> The Sephardim in Australia</font> </center><br> Strictly speaking the Sephardim were the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, who fled elsewhere in the Mediterranean, and to to Northern Europe - notably Holland. However the term is often used more broadly to include the Mizrahi -- Jews who lived in the Middle East from the time of the Jewish Kindgdoms, n lands that between 600CE and 1450 CE were conquered by Muslim invaders and became Muslim states or caliphates. 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