Australian Jewish Historical Society : Series : Correspondence and papers of the Jewish Board of Deputies, which do not appear to be restricted to any one subject [2484]

Correspondence and papers of the Jewish Board of Deputies, which do not appear to be restricted to any one subject

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Series DescriptionContains incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports including but not limited to varied subject matters such as congratulatory letters to Parliamentarians, various Jewish communities; messages; advice of retirement; appointments/nominations, invitations from schools, synagogues, universities, communities such as the Chinese, Vietnamese Communities and Turkish Association; Ethnic Community Council NSW; Indigenous Communities of Australia; Gay and Lesbian Memorial Project; Office of the Premier of the NSW; Jewish Centre of Aging; Council of Christians and Jews; State Parliament; Anti-Discrimination Board NSW; NSW Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Servicewomen; United Nations; State Zionist Council of NSW, Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, to lectures, programmes, projects, luncheons, publications, Kristallnacht Commemoration Concert, nominations for awards to the Order of Australia for people including but not limited to Rabbi Ernst Wolff, Herald Goldstein, Herbert Stricker, Gerry Levy etc. and nominations for the Jewish Community Services Achievement Awards. Also includes invitations to the AGM from the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants to the President JBoD; the launch of the Holocaust (Shoah) Educational Website; Scroll of Honours awards; and the amended constitution of the JBoD; representations to events e.g. Mackillop/Papal visit; Peter Wertheim's speech for the Yitzhak Rabin anniversary memorial; fact sheet by Professor Colin Tatz re Kristallnacht; letter to Quang Lou; JBoD letters to media; JBoD press releases; guest speakers such as Reverend Cantor Deutsch to 50th Anniversary of the Final Solution; Aboriginal leader for board meeting; "Blood for Zion's Unleavened Bread" translation and letter of complaint; list of Righteous of Nations in Australia; Letter from Andrew Wiedler re reparations for Hungarian Jews; Shabbat Zachor commemoration; Jewish hostages in Lebanon; rally for Soviet Jewry, Refuseniks; submission to the Institute of Holocaust Studies on recording of Holocaust Survivors; letter to Gorbachev; press releases such as Holocaust historian, Professor Yaffa Eliach; letters of complaints to news & radio media; transcripts of radio interviews; draft memorandum of the Institute for Holocaust Studies; financial statements; letter of condemnation for example of anti-Semitic video game; publication "Your Rights"; letter addressed to Premier Barry Unsworth re a racial slur against Asher Joel; Constitution of Institute of Holocaust Studies; pamphlet re a torchlight vigil on opening night of Bolshoi Ballet; press release from Sam Lipski, Sakharov on Human Rights; letter from the members of JEWAR Jewish Women Against Refuseniks; media releases re Sheikh Tajeddin al Hilaly (Imam of the Lakemba Mosque) speech & translation; translation from the "Al -Bayan" Arabic newspaper; report to the Institute for Holocaust Studies from the Holocaust Testimony Oral History Project; Kristallnacht 50th anniversary correspondence such as draft by Daryl Hodes; Twelve Hour Project List in conjunction with the Institute for Holocaust Studies; reports and notes to the Plenum and Executive of the JBoD; Bicentennial Committee Memorial Fountain donation; plight of Soviet and Syrian Jewry; Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism; Group Libel Organisation; Discrimination Legislation; Norman Rothfield's transcript to the Public Relations Committee; Memorial Tribute to the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin; etc. The correspondence of the JBoD was dispersed and there was no original order or arrangement to the papers. Order and arrangement have been imposed by the Archivist to provide context to reflect its functions as the representative body of Australian Jewry and for future research. Please note: that this series of records was dispersed throughout the consignment. The papers have been arranged chronologically within each x File and correspondence have been included in this series during the appraisal process in order to retain order and context for future use. There might be missing correspondence in some Files with no continuity with the subject matters but Files were not culled and correspondence within each File was retained. Includes item nos. 33 and 108 relating to pre, during World War Two and immediate post-World War Two period
Series Number003
Dates(s)1936 to 2015
ProvenanceB1 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, The - NSWJBoD
Related RecordsSee Administrative History
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