The skeleton in Isaac Nathan's cupboard

Journal article

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In Journal Issue

Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 20, 1 (2010)

Author(s) Jeremy Pfeffer AbstractIsaac Nathan arrived in Melbourne from England in 1841. His sole participation in Jewish life in Australia was as the musical director of the ceremonies occasioned by the consecration of the York Street Synagogue in April 1844. His many children from his two wives were all brought up as Anglicans and, following Isaac's death in 1864, he himself was buried in the Anglican cemetery at Camperdown in New South Wales. The article tells the story of how his father Moses Nathan, called Manish Polak of Canterbury and his father's brother R. Issachar Ber of Szobin (both legitimate Jews) conspired to dupe the leading rabbinical authorities of the time and pervert their halachic decisions in the matter of the questionable status as a Jew (possible mamzerut) of Manish's wife, Isaac Nathan's mother
Year2010
Pages5-21