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Archive of Australian Judaica

INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES

Shelf List: 1  Source: Yehuda FEHER
Housing: 7 boxes  Period: 1940-1998

Yehuda Feher was a leader of the Shomrim zionist youth movement, and continues to be a leader in Jewish communal organisations. His collection represents the most significant collection of Australian Zionist Youth magazines known to exist in this country. The collection shows Australian Jewish youth at its activist best at the time when it galvanised the senior Jewish Community into action on behalf of European Jewry. Covers the period of the Shoah and the creation of the State of Israel. Some ephemera from the 1940's and later. He has just finished working on a biography of Percy Marks, whom he sees as a forgotten Australian Jewish intellectual. See Yehuda Feher Collection.

Shelf List: 2   Source: Max JOSEPH
Housing: 14 boxes  Period: 1921-1971

A meticulously organised and documented collection of personal material on Germany and Australia. Dr Joseph was a doughty fighter for the rights of refugees and Jewish Holocaust survivors in Australia.The collection is important for the light it throws on Jewish immigration and the struggles of individuals to make their lives in a new country. Contains invaluable correspondence with political figures of the 40s and 50s giving insights into official attitudes to refugees. See Max Joseph Collection.

Shelf List: 3  Source: Maurice ISAACS
Housing: 2 boxes Period: 1929-1969

Maurice Isaacs, a lawyer by profession, was active in the leadership of the Jewish community in the 1940s and 1950s, especially in the Young Men's Hebrew Association and B'nai B'rith. His papers represent those interests and include annual reports and papers of the Y.M.H.A. 1929-53, and copies of his own contributions to the Australian Jewish Forum 1941-48.See Maurice Isaacs Collection.

Shelf List: 4   Source: Sam KARPIN
Housing: 9 boxes Period: 1945-1983

Sam Karpin was involved in many organisations, but he is best known for his role in the Y.M.H.A. and as a founder and mainstay of the Wolper Jewish Hospital, Sydney. His papers provide a profile of the Wolper's activities and include material from its inception to the early 1980s. See Sam Karpin Collection.

Shelf List: 5  Source: Max FREILICH
Housing: 3 boxes  Period: 1926-1974

Some of the personal correspondence and assorted papers of a leading Australian Zionist whose personal friendships with Australian and Diaspora personalities gave him a special role in Australian Zionist history.

Shelf List: 6   Source: Edward LANE
Housing: 1 folder Period: 1925, 1984

Personal memoirs of Australian Navy, 1925. Mr Lane, who was a professional photographer, took 87 photographs of the Montefiore Home for the Archive, before his death in 1984. See also PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION

Shelf List: 7  Source: Maurice LASERSON
Housing: 4 boxes Period: 1937-1959

Maurice Laserson was a social worker involved with the resettlement of Jewish refugees. His papers reflect his work with O.R.T. and his connections with Australian Jewish colleagues. See Max Laserson Collection.

Shelf List: 8  Source: Mark BRAHAM
Housing 5 boxes Period: 1904-1987

Mark Braham, author, journalist and businessman, is the author of Jews Don't Hate, a book which describes his role in the controversy which wracked the Jewish community in the 60s and saw the closure of the Australian Jewish Herald. His papers are mostly related to this incident. See Mark Braham Collection.

Shelf List: 9  Source: Alec W. SHEPPARD
Housing: 1 folder Period: 1940-1986

Newspaper clippings and articles by Alex Sheppard on his activities on behalf of Jewish refugees against anti-semitism and for the State of Israel. Alec Sheppard worked for military intelligence in the Middle East, and for some years was the publisher of Morgan Publications. Card of Rabbi Freedman (army chaplain).

Shelf List: 10  Source: Sir John MONASH
Housing: 1 folder Period: 1927-1928

Sir John Monash, well known soldier and politician was the hon. president of the Zionist Federation from its establishment in 1927 to his death in 1931. Most of Monash's papers reflecting his Zionist interests cannot be located. However, 4 photocopies of items preserved in the Australian National University files are held in the Archive. Most of his records are in the National Archives of Australia. See also Sir John Monash Collection.

Shelf List: 11  Source: Arie EVEN
Housing: 1 folder Period: 1970s

Arie (& Shula) Even was the Education Shaliah (emissary) of the World Zionist Organisation in the 1970s.

Shelf List: 12  Source: Dr KATZ
Housing: 2 boxes Period: 1947-1960

Views of Israel in the 40s, 50s and 60s, culled from the press and mounted on paper.

Shelf List: 13   Source: Harold KRESNER
Housing: 1 folder Period:1916-1975

Memorabilia from his life as an Australian Zionist of his days with the Zion Mule Corps (World War I) and later.See Harold Kresner Collection.

Shelf List: 14  Source: Michael FALK (Rabbi Leib Aisack FALK)
Housing: 2 boxes Period: 1929-1950

The late Rabbi Leib Falk, the grandfather of Michael Falk was instrumental in breaking the stranglehold of the Great Synagogue as the bastion of Anti-Zionist 'Anglo-Jewry' in Australia. His role in transforming the attitudes of Australian 'Anglo-Jewry' has been told in part in Max Freilich's Zion in Australia (see 5 above). See also Michael Falk Collection.

Shelf List: 15  Source: Dr Solomon GOLDBERG
Housing: 2 folders 1952-1962

Dr Goldberg was a tireless worker in the Fellowship of Jewish Doctors, The N.S.W Friends of the Hebrew University and as a Champion of Israel. He worked hard to establish a sheep farm in the Shephelah (coastal area) of Israel using Australian sheep, sending between 2,000-3,000 Corriedales in a highly successful airlift. The collection of typescripts, newspaper clippings and some 80 photographs cover the venture from its inception in 1953.

Shelf List: 16  Source: Maurice de BERG
Housing: 1 folder Period: 1929-1979

Maurice de Berg, who died in September 1994 became an active worker in the Zionist movement after he migrated to this country from Britain in the 1920s. He was present at the inaugural meeting of the Junior Union of Sydney Zionists in 1927 and remained actively interested in zionism all his life. His personal correspondence relates to zionism in the 1920s and 1930s. His sister in law was the late Hazel de Berg, who recorded a large number of taped interviews now kept in the National Library, Canberra, and another is married to the prominent doctor, Prof. Ronald Penny. See Maurice De Berg Collection.

Shelf List: 17  Source: Kurt LEWINSKI (d. 1996)
Housing: 1 volume+ diary Period: 1940-1945

The late Kurt Lewinski was on the Duneraand was subsequently interned at Hay and Tatura. The diary consists of 120 pp. describing events aboard Dunera and in the camps, and concludes with a description of life in the 8th Australian Employment Co., 1942-45. A first-hand source for studies of the Dunera affair and the internment camps.

Shelf List: 18  Source: Cyril PEARL 
Housing: 2 boxes Period: 1941-1983

Cyril Pearl was a prolific writer with a well-developed investigative sense. His book, The Dunera Affair, was an important study of that unhappy incident in the early war period which both the British and Australian governments are still trying to cover up from scrutiny. The Dunera brought many foreign migrants to Australia who later became major artists, writers and scholars.

Shelf List: 19  Source: Sydney MULLER
Housing: 36 boxes Period: 1950-1979 * Restricted access

Sydney Muller was a prominent member of Bnai Brith and was active in the Jewish Board of Deputies. His B'nai B'rith materials represent the activities of that organisation, both local and national, from 1964-1967.

Shelf List: 20   Source: Ben Zion PATKIN
Housing: 16 boxes Period: 1927-1983

Ben Zion Patkin, Zionist pioneer and Melbourne communal personality with an especial interest in Hebrew as the common language of the Jewish people, had an extensive collection of documents which, until his death, were available to but few researchers. Mr Patkin offered copies of items thought to be irretrievably lost to the Archive. His widow, Hemda Patkin, gave her husband's papers to the Archive over a number of years. She died in August 2003. See Ben Zion Patkin Collection.

Input Monday, 28-Jul-2008 11:22:43 EST. Comments on contents to Marianne Dacy.