Isaac Leo Lyon: the first free Jewish migrant to Australia?

Journal article
In Journal Issue

Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 12, 1 (1993)

Author Naomi Cream AbstractThis article contradicts the notion that Esther Isaacs, arr. 1816, and Barnett Levy, arr. 1821, were the first free Jewish emigrants to Australia, and argues that Isaac Leo Lyon, schoolmaster, who arrived 1809, but concealed his Jewish background, deserves this title.
Year1993
Pages3-16
Isaac Leo Lyon: the first free Jewish migrant to Australia?
Isaac Leo Lyon: the first free Jewish migrant to Australia?
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