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The vast majority of [[Jew]]s in [[Oceania]] (c. 120,000) live in Australia, with a small population (c. 5,000) in [[New Zealand]]. Most are [[Ashkenazi Jews]], with many being survivors of [[the Holocaust]] arriving during and after [[World War II]]. More recently, a significant number of Jews have arrived from South Africa and [[Russia]]. The official number of people who practised Judaism in the 2001 census was only 83,459 but this number is expected to be much higher, as it did not count those overseas (i.e. dual Australian-Israeli nationals) or many non-practicing Jews who prefer not to disclose religion in the census are more common. The vast majority of Australia's Jews live in inner suburbs of [[Melbourne]] (particularly [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]], [[Elwood, Victoria|Elwood]], [[Elsternwick, Victoria|Elsternwick]], [[Caulfield, Victoria|Caulfield]] and [[Toorak, Victoria|Toorak]]) and Sydney ([[Bondi, New South Wales|Bondi]], [[Dover Heights, New South Wales|Dover Heights]], [[Rose Bay, New South Wales|Rose Bay]], [[Vaucluse, New South Wales|Vaucluse]], [[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives]] and [[Hunters Hill, New South Wales|Hunters Hill]]) with smaller populations in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] and the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]]. In New Zealand, most Jews live in [[Auckland]] and [[Wellington]] with smaller populations in [[Dunedin]] and [[Christchurch]]. Dunedin Synagogue has possibly the world's southernmost Jewish congregation.<ref>[http://vital.org.nz/nzjews.html Jews in New Zealand<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
The vast majority of [[Jew]]s in [[Oceania]] (c. 120,000) live in Australia, with a small population (c. 5,000) in [[New Zealand]]. Most are [[Ashkenazi Jews]], with many being survivors of [[the Holocaust]] arriving during and after [[World War II]]. More recently, a significant number of Jews have arrived from South Africa and [[Russia]]. The official number of people who practised Judaism in the 2001 census was only 83,459 but this number is expected to be much higher, as it did not count those overseas (i.e. dual Australian-Israeli nationals) or many non-practicing Jews who prefer not to disclose religion in the census are more common. The vast majority of Australia's Jews live in inner suburbs of [[Melbourne]] and [[Sydney]] with smaller populations in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]], [[Brisbane]] and the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]]. In Melbourne, the Jewish population centre is Caulfield where there are streets with nearly a 100% Jewish population; the main areas of settlement spread out from [[Caulfield, Victoria|Caulfield]] in two arcs: south through [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]], [[Elwood, Victoria|Elwood]], [[Elsternwick, Victoria|Elsternwick]], [[Brighton, Victoria|Brighton]], [[Moorabbin, Victoria|Moorabbin]] and right down to [[Frankston, Victoria|Frankston]]; east through [[Toorak, Victoria|Toorak]], [[Malvern, Victoria|Malvern]], [[Hawthorn, Victoria|Hawthorn]], [[Kew, Victoria|Kew]], [[Balwayn, Victoria|Balwyn]] to Doncaster, Victoria|Doncaster]]. In Sydney the major areas of Jewish settlement are in the east and on the North Shore, in particuylar the suburbs of ([[Bondi, New South Wales|Bondi]], [[Dover Heights, New South Wales|Dover Heights]], [[Rose Bay, New South Wales|Rose Bay]], [[Vaucluse, New South Wales|Vaucluse]], [[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives]] and [[Hunters Hill, New South Wales|Hunters Hill]]). In New Zealand, most Jews live in [[Auckland]] and [[Wellington]] with smaller populations in [[Dunedin]] and [[Christchurch]]. Dunedin Synagogue has possibly the world's southernmost Jewish congregation.<ref>[http://vital.org.nz/nzjews.html Jews in New Zealand<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.
The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.

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The vast majority of Jews in Oceania (c. 120,000) live in Australia, with a small population (c. 5,000) in New Zealand. Most are Ashkenazi Jews, with many being survivors of the Holocaust arriving during and after World War II. More recently, a significant number of Jews have arrived from South Africa and Russia. The official number of people who practised Judaism in the 2001 census was only 83,459 but this number is expected to be much higher, as it did not count those overseas (i.e. dual Australian-Israeli nationals) or many non-practicing Jews who prefer not to disclose religion in the census are more common. The vast majority of Australia's Jews live in inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney with smaller populations in Perth, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. In Melbourne, the Jewish population centre is Caulfield where there are streets with nearly a 100% Jewish population; the main areas of settlement spread out from Caulfield in two arcs: south through St Kilda, Elwood, Elsternwick, Brighton, Moorabbin and right down to Frankston; east through Toorak, Malvern, Hawthorn, Kew, Balwyn to Doncaster, Victoria|Doncaster]]. In Sydney the major areas of Jewish settlement are in the east and on the North Shore, in particuylar the suburbs of (Bondi, Dover Heights, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, St Ives and Hunters Hill). In New Zealand, most Jews live in Auckland and Wellington with smaller populations in Dunedin and Christchurch. Dunedin Synagogue has possibly the world's southernmost Jewish congregation.[1]

The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Australia

Academic figures

Business figures

Cultural figures

Political figures

Religious figures

  • Rabbi Dr Joseph Abrahams, prominent Melbourne rabbi of the late 19th & early 20th centuries, in 1911 did not take up the call as Chief Rabbi on account of ill health[13]
  • Rabbi Dr. Raymond Apple, emeritus senior rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Senior Rabbi to the Australian Defence Force, Registrar of the Sydney Beth Din, author of OzTorah.com, and the leading spokesperson for Jews and Judaism in Australia from 1972 to 2005
  • Rabbi Rudolph (Ruddy) Brasch, senior reform rabbi in Sydney for over 30 years, a well-known author and broadcaster
  • Rabbi Francis Cohen, prominent Sydney rabbi in the early 20th century[14]
  • Rabbi Jacob Danglow, rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation 1905-1962, one of the most prominent rabbis in both the Jewish and the general communities[15][16][17]
  • Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Rabbi of the Yeshiva Centre
  • Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, director of many Chabad operations in Victoria
  • Rabbi Chaim Gutnick, formerly rabbi of Elwood Synagogue for over forty years and life president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria
  • Rabbi John Levi, first Australian-born rabbi, prominent Progressive rabbi & teacher[18][19]
  • Joseph Marcus, a convict who trained as a rabbi and who is reputed to have conducted the first Jewish services in Sydney
  • Rabbi Israel Porush, prominent & long-serving Sydney rabbi[20]
  • Mr Abraham Rabinovitch, philanthropist and founder of Sydney's main Orthodox Jewish educational institutions
  • Rabbi Dr Max Sanger, important Melbourne progressive rabbi, responsible for the spread of progressive Judaism to ther parts of Australia[21][22][23]

Sports figures

Miscelaneous

  • Dunera boys, a group of mainly Jewish British detainees who were deported to Australia in horrific circumstances; many of them later becoming prominent Australian citizens
  • Sir John Monash, World War I general, engineer, first chairman of Victoria's State Electricity Commission
  • John Smith, Sydney's first free police constable
  • Ikey Solomon, First Fleet prisoner, the person on whom Charles Dickens based the character of Fagin

Fiji

French Polynesia

New Zealand

Business figures

Cultural figures

Political figures

Sir Julius Vogel

National figures

Local body politicians

Sports figures

Nathan Cohen

Other figures

See also

References

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  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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  16. ^ Newman Rosenthal, Look Back with Pride: the St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation's first century, 1971, T. Nelson, Melbourne.
  17. ^ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/danglow-jacob-5878
  18. ^ Eliot Baskin, Werner Graff, Malcolm Turnbull, A Time to Keep:The story of Temple Beth Israel 1930 to 2005, 2005, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne.
  19. ^ http://www.tbi.org.au/about/our-rabbis/
  20. ^ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/porush-israel-15194
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