Caroline Chisholm and Jewish migration

Journal article

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In Journal Issue

Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 2, 2 (1944)

Author(s) Marise Cohen AbstractI am dealing to-night; for it was certainly this spirit of practical benevolence which led to the formation in London of a Jewish "Emigration Committee" about the middle of the last century. The aims of the Emigration Committee were to foster and implement Jewish (particularly female) emigration to this colony of Australia, as it was then. Why, we might well ask, was it desired to foster female emigration ? Was it planned as a practical venture ? And if so, what were the plans that must of necessity have been formulated ? Broadly speaking, what was the story behind a scheme of immigration to Australia at that particular time ?
Year1944
Pages67-77