'A Need in the Community’: The Victorian Association of British Jews

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Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 26, 3 (2023)

Author(s) Hilary Rubinstein AbstractA sliver of post-war Melburnian Jewish history that has been hitherto overlooked was the existence during the late 1960s and all of the 1970s of a social and cultural organisation consisting of Jewish migrants from the United Kingdom. The Victorian Association of British Jews drew its member­ship mainly from people who had come to Australia from the British Isles between 1947 and 1960, helping them to establish and consolidate social and presumably business networks. Its demise was probably due to several factors.
Year2023
Pages390-416
Keyword(s)Australian Jews of British origin;British-born Jews in Melbourne;Jewish migrants from Britain in Australia;Post-war Melbourne Jewry;Landsmanshaften;Victorian Association of British Jews