Remember the Days of Yore,
Deuteronomy Chapter 32 Verse 7
understand the years of generation after generation.
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Remember the Days of Yore, Deuteronomy Chapter 32 Verse 7 understand the years of generation after generation. |
The home page for the Australian Jewish Historical
Society, (AJHS), which has principal chapters AJHS Inc [NSW] based in Sydney
and AJHS Victoria Inc based in Melbourne, with members in all states and overseas.
The AJHS publishes the Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society,
and maintains libraries and archives in Sydney and Melbourne.
This site documents the Jewish experience in Australia,
which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1778, and continued with Jewish involvement
in all facets of the subsequent development and evolution of Australia.
Follow the links to notices of meetings and historical tours, and to a timeline, references and sources, photos.
Quick Links to Navigate this Website
| www.ajhs.info | | Home page for the Australian Jewish Historical Society = AJHS. Click on this Logo on the top left of all pages on this site to return to this Home Page. |
| www.nsw.ajhs.info |
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Home Page of the AJHS Inc [NSW] Archives, library, meetings, contact, membership |
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| www.vic.ajhs.info |
Home Page of AJHS (Vic) = the Australian Jewish Historical Society Victoria Inc [Vic] Next meeting, tours, contact, membership |
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| www.journal.ajhs.info |
Home Page of the Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society = AJHSJ Gives flavour of our journal, free to members. What's in the latest issue of the AJHSJ. Editors. Advice to authors. |
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| www.arc.ajhs.info | |
The archives and libraries of the AJHS Inc [NSW] and of AJHS (Vic).
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Listings of holdings of original records, microfilms, microfiche, record copies, portraits, illuminated addresses. Access and Contact details. Fees. |
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The Beverley Davis Burial Data Collection - the BD-BD - holds the details from the headstones of over
40,000 Jewish graves in Australia and New Zealand, plus Australian War graves overseas and a few others.
This database is fully searchable. A noteable feature is that Hebrew on headstones is converted to roman text. All genealogical information on each headstone is recorded,
including the names of family members who perished in the Holocaust.
Alternate URL is http://ajhs.info/cemetery.
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The Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal (AJHSJ) has been published since 1939,
and contains a multitude of articles on the Jewish experience in Australia.
For each completed volume, a comprehensive index was published,
listing articles not only by author(s) and title, but by category of paper,
and also by keyword and reference.
Col Choat has optically scanned the indices from Volume 1, 1939,
to Volume 17 (last issue was in 2004), to produce a comprehensive cumulative index to
the AJHSJ. The large files thereby produced are now online,
while Harvey Cohen has commenced developing programming schemes of searching and accessing this large
amount of data most conveniently.
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The books in the AJHS (Vic) Research Library comprise 1035 titles ranging from the classic well-known books
on Australian Jewish History to several rare items. The library is stored at the Makor Library,
305 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield.
The index can be accessed by browisng to the Archives Page of this website, at www.arc.ajhs.info, then clicking on the tag to the left entitled Contents & Holdings Victorian Archives | |
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AJHS has in recent years produced invaluable special publications in Australian
Jewish history -- both in book and digital media form. This section of our website gives
full description of available publications, together with pricing and ordering information.
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On Thursday 23rd November 2013 at 8 pm at the Jewish Museum of Australia Gandel Centre of Judaica 26 Alma Road, St Kilda The Australian Jewish Historical Society (Vic) will present at a regular meeting Dr David Mushin who will discuss Much Ado About Nothing? Twenty eight years of ASIO surveillance of my father Aaron Mushin Aaron Mushin was not considered to be a security risk by ASIO when it first collected information on him in 1951 but there was interest in others with whom he associated. Despite never being personally considered a risk, information about him continued to be compiled for at least the next 28 years. The entries on the file related to personal and family details, issues related to communism, Jewish issues, and records of permit applications from the 1930s for proposed immigrants from Europe. The file raises questions as to why so much effort was expended on Aaron and many others, while fascist groups in Australia seem to have been tolerated? Members, friends and visitors are most welcome. Admission $8 members $10 non-members |
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David Mushin is a retired psychiatrist with an interest in history and in understanding his family background. The Mushin family was Jewish in a secular sense and strongly identified with a view of social justice which was seen as being linked with socialism. David, in retirement, is involved with voluntary community work concerning child welfare and Aboriginal family health.
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| Digest of Past Meetings and Tours of AJHS (Vic) is at www.ajhs.info/vic | |
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If you experience any difficulty in accessing any part of this site, please send an Email that indicates just the operating system for your PC, and which web browser you are using to view this site. Visitors to this website are most welcome to communicate with webmaster Dr Harvey Cohen by Email. | |