The Bibliography of Australian Judaica was published in 1987, with a second edition in 1991. Serge Liberman, himself a creative writer is listed as the author. His starting point was Percy Marks' listing of Australian Judaica of 1930 and 1936. Percy Marks' collection of Judaica is housed in the Mitchell Library, Macquarie Street, Sydney. In essence the work consisted of his personal list of books and reports of societies and institutions, albeit incomplete. The next Jewish publication to list Australian titles was Cecil Roth's Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica: A Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History (5698=1937), published by the Historical Society of England. This work included just ten titles relating to Australian Judaica. Risha Feiglin's Jewish Refugees from Hitler: The Australian Experience as Reflected in the Literature, 1939-1981 (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1981) proved to be an invaluable resource as well as John A. Ferguson's seven volume Bibliography of Australia, E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature, 1795-1938 and the updated Frederick Macartney edition of 1950.

Liberman dedicated the first edition as follows:

To Nancy Keesing a grand lady who lit the spark and kept the flame alive and to a Frenchman half a world away who, unwittingly, started it all.

Besides giving encouragment for the work, Nancy paid for the publication of the book with a generous donation. The first edition was edited and typed by Joy Ruth Young, who worked as a librarian in the Fisher Library and the second by Laura Gallou, who lectured for a time at Sydney University in modern Greek. Two hundred copies of the first edition were printed and sold. Tragically, the data was wiped from the mainline library computer, and this meant all would have to be retyped. On the death of the first editor, Joy Young, a new editor, Laura Gallou was found. The second edition was dedicated to Joy Young. This edition omitted the periodicals section which had been prepared by Marianne Dacy. Serge Libermann, in the meantime had prepared updated material for the second edition. A thousand copies were printed.

The work has succeeded in being comprehensive and covers myriad aspects of Australian Jewry's creative output. It is set out thematically. Included in this bibliography are monographs, pamphlets, journal articles and chapters from books which are about Jews in Australia and New Zealand. The first edition also included a union list of Australian Jewish serials. This has been published separately as well. In this year 2004, we realise the need for updates to this bibliography. Thus, there are no works listed in the present printed edition past 1991. We aim to rectify this lack.

In the meantime, copies of the 1991 bibliography can be obtained from the Mandelbaum Trust and are an invaluable resource. A large number of the bibliographies have not been sold.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIAN JUDAICA

Table of CONTENTS

Preface to the First Edition

Editor's Introduction 5

PART ONE

1. Creative Writing by Jews: English and European Languages

1.1 Prose 3

1.2 Poetry and Plays 17

1.3 Anthologies of Jewish Writing 26

1.4 Other Anthologies 27

1.5 Other Sources 30

2. Creative Writing by Jews: Yiddish and Hebrew

2.1 Prose 31

2.2 Poetry and Plays 34

2.3 Anthologies 35

3. The Jew in Australian Literature 36

4.The Arts

4.1 Art, Architecture and Photography 43

4.2 On Literature 57

4.3 On Music 62

4.4 On Theatre 66

5. Miscellaneous

5.1 The Press 68

5.2 Sports 70

5.3 Culinary 71

5.4 General 72

6. Education 73

PART TWO

7. General Section 83

8. Autobiography and Biography 84

9. Genealogy103

10. Demography 105

11. History of Jews in Australasia 109

12. Politics, World War I and II, Zionism 136

13. Judaism 164

14. Jewish Visitors to Australia 194

PART THREE

Author Index 199

Title Index 217

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