This file includes correspondence between Marcelle Marks and Richard Pratt, and articles published a …

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ProvenanceMARKS, Marcelle (MARKSM)
SeriesJews on the Land in Australia
Series Number001
Item DescriptionThis file includes correspondence between Marcelle Marks and Richard Pratt, and articles published about Richard and his wife Jeanne in the Australian Jewish News and Sydney Morning Herald (2005-2009). A rough draft article on the Shepparton Jewish Settlement by Marcelle Marks, dated 1983. A colour photograph of Shepparton Synagogue (1982). Notes from the Victorian Land Settlement Royal Commission (1930). Handwritten notes from Marcelle listing land purchases, settlements, population information for Shepparton and notes on sources (1980-1986). 1941 edition of the Shepparton Advertiser's Irrigators' Directory. Biographies, notes and black and white photograph reproductions on the Wolk Family, Max and Chaya Bloumis, the Moritz family, Raphael Beresinsky, Nehemia Rosenbaum, William Edward Hanau, Mark Goldstein, Gregor and Ida Goldberg-Rudkowski, Henry Grunstein, Judah Alpherstein, Gerald de Vahl Davis, and the Miller family. Article about the Closer Settlement Scheme (1949). Excerpts from the Zionist (1950-51). Black and white photocopies of photographes of Hachshara farm, Springvale (1946-50). Newspaper article 'Chalutzin in country Victoria' in the Australian Jewish News (1998).
Item Number073
Item Box Number9
Dates(s)1946 to 2009
Box Barcode Number:NB03837777
Current LocationLRCA - Louise Rosenberg Communal Archive