Jewish Museum of Australia.

Also known as
JEWISH MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA.
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http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an36563514
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The Jewish Museum of Australia is a community museum, which aims to explore and share the Jewish experience in Australia and benefit Australia's diverse society. The Jewish Museum of Australia is committed to being a respected and innovative cultural centre, recognised nationally for its excellence in exhibitions, education programs and collection management. The Jewish Museum of Australia was established in 1982 and for thirteen years was located in the synagogue of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, South Yarra. In that time, the Jewish Museum presented over forty wide-ranging exhibitions, several of which travelled nationally. The Museum attracted significant communal support and won several prestigious industry awards. In 1992 the Jewish Museum of Australia purchased a building in Alma Road, St Kilda opposite one of Melbourne's most beautiful synagogues, the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation, and close to Temple Beth Israel.

On 20 August 1995 the Jewish Museum of Australia, Gandel Centre of Judaica was officially opened by the then Governor General, Bill Hayden.

The Jewish Museum of Australia’s Collection has been acquired mostly through donations. The Museum is the custodian of the community’s history, with a responsibility to preserve and record through material heritage the Australian Jewish experience. The Collection documents many aspects of Australian Jewish life, beginning with the arrival of Jews with the First Fleet, and representing in depth major episodes of migration and settlement of the Jews in Australia, to the present.

The Collection includes over 12,000 catalogued items, as well as ‘to be catalogued’ items, some of which are large personal and/or professional archives. Many of the larger personal archives include pre-migration heritage. The Museum’s Collection includes important holdings about the HMT Dunera and the internment of enemy aliens in Australia in the 1940s.

Other significant holdings document the Shanghai Jewish experience pre- and during WWII, emigration, immigration and settlement processes for different waves of Jewish migration.

In 2008 the Museum acquired the Archives of Rabbi Joseph Lipman Gurewicz. Rabbi Joseph Lipman Gurewicz (b. Vilna 1885) arrived in Australia in 1932 and became the spiritual head of the United Congregations of Carlton. Rabbi Gurewicz was a dynamic community leader and an authority in matters of Jewish law.

The significance of this archive resides in its documentation of the various social/communal and religious issues that onfronted the emerging Eastern European immigrant Jewish community over the two decades of 1930s-1950s – the war and the immediate post-war years, and the community’s responses to those issues.

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  1. Jewish Museum of Australia
    Light, Helen
    New Responsibilities: Documenting Multicultural Australia: a Record of the Conference for Museums, Libraries, Archives and Historical Collections, Towards a National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia, 11-13 November 1988, Melbourne
    [ Book, Article : 1989-2007 ]
    At 21 libraries
    Jewish Museum of Australia
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  2. The journal of the Jewish Museum of Australia
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Periodical : 1995-2012 ]
    At 6 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 105.327)

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  3. Jottings / Jewish Museum of Australia
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Periodical : 1900-2012 ]
    At State Library of QLD
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  4. Mask auction / The Jewish Museum of Australia
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Book : 1998 ]
    At 13 libraries
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  5. The journal / Jewish Museum of Australia, Gandel Centre of Judica
    Jewish Museum of Australia
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  6. The moveable feast : a celebration of Jewish food : an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia, March-July 1996
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    [ Book : 1996 ]
    At 10 libraries
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  7. Art and architecture of the synagogue / Jewish Museum of Australia
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    [ Book : 1982 ]
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  8. In the footsteps of Monash : Jews in the Australian armed forces in World War 2 / [Jewish Museum of Australia]
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    [ Book : 1995 ]
    At 8 libraries
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  9. Material treasures : the textile collection of the Jewish Museum of Australia
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    [ Book : 1997 ]
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  10. [Jewish Museum of Australia : Australian Gallery File]
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  1. Jewish Museum of Australia
    Light, Helen
    New Responsibilities: Documenting Multicultural Australia: a Record of the Conference for Museums, Libraries, Archives and Historical Collections, Towards a National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia, 11-13 November 1988, Melbourne
    [ Book, Article : 1989-2007 ]
    At 21 libraries
    Jewish Museum of Australia
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  2. The journal of the Jewish Museum of Australia
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Periodical : 1995-2012 ]
    At 6 libraries
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  3. Jottings / Jewish Museum of Australia
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    [ Periodical : 1900-2012 ]
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  4. Mask auction / The Jewish Museum of Australia
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    [ Book : 1998 ]
    At 13 libraries
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  5. The journal / Jewish Museum of Australia, Gandel Centre of Judica
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Periodical : 1990-2012 ]
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  6. The moveable feast : a celebration of Jewish food : an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia, March-July 1996
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Book : 1996 ]
    At 10 libraries
    The moveable feast : a celebration of Jewish food : an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia, March-July 1996
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 39.009)

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  7. Newsletter (Jewish Museum of Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1980-1995 ]
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  8. Art and architecture of the synagogue / Jewish Museum of Australia
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Book : 1982 ]
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  9. In the footsteps of Monash : Jews in the Australian armed forces in World War 2 / [Jewish Museum of Australia]
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    [ Book : 1995 ]
    At 8 libraries
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  10. Material treasures : the textile collection of the Jewish Museum of Australia
    Jewish Museum of Australia
    [ Book : 1997 ]
    At 6 libraries
    Material treasures : the textile collection of the Jewish Museum of Australia
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 34.95)

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  1. HOME FOR JEWS. COLONY IN AUSTRALIA. NEW FROMISED LAND." (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 14.
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    ... the Immigration of Jewish and other allen refugees Into Australia was expressed at a meeting of the ... tralian out of work lt was not right that Jewish emigrants should be allow- ed to enter the country. ... essential that that trouble should not arise In Australia. The Introduction of allens would low- er the ... 421 words
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  3. In the Great Synagogue tradition meets technology
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    ... of the first Jewish museum in Australia. From its premises on the ground floor of the education ... right: the Rosenblum Museum tells the story of Judaism in Australia. id A sliding roof and rare ... retell the history of Judaism in Australia. "When I first began on the project I discovered many ... 679 words
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  1. A distant home : a history of jews in Australia / Jewish Museum of Australia, Gandel Centre of Judaica
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  2. Precious platters : exhibition and auction, Jewish Museum of Australia
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  3. Intersections : reading the space: Christianity, Judaism and Islam: Irene Barberis, Parastou Forouhar, Jane Logemann: an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia April - June 2005/ [introduction by Helen Light]
    Light, Helen
    [ Book : 2005 ]
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    Intersections : reading the space: Christianity, Judaism and Islam: Irene Barberis, Parastou Forouhar, Jane Logemann: an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia April - June 2005/ [introduction by Helen Light]
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  4. Jews in Australia : a swag of stories
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  1. Jewish Museum of Australia puts Maurice Sendak on show
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    [ Sound : 2006 ]
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    Jewish Museum of Australia puts Maurice Sendak on show
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  2. 2005 Australian-Israel Hawke lecture : changing headsets : the impact of museums on social thinking / Viv Szekeres (Migration Museum), Helen Light (Jewish Museum of Australia) ; chair, Elizabeth Ho
    Szekeres, Vivienne
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    At Barr Smith Library
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  3. The Multiple Personalities of Moses
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    [ Sound : 1999 ]
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  4. Edge of the diaspora : two centuries of Jewish settlement in Australia / Suzanne D. Rutland
    Rutland, Suzanne D. (Suzanne Dorothy), 1946-
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  2. An Australian Berlin and hotbed of disloyalty: shaming Germans in a country district during two world wars
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  1. Website: Jewish Museum of Australia : Gandel Centre of Judaica
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