Les Juifs de Sydney

The Jewish community of Sydney is one of the oldest in Australia, its origins going back to the first convoys of the British penal colony, among which Jews figured, as well as to the free immigrants who came afterward. During the nineteenth century, it built institutions and synagogues and participated in the economic and civic life of the colony of New South Wales. Strengthened later by immigration from Eastern Europe, by survivors of the Shoah and by Jews from South Africa and other countries, it presents a diverse composition. Active and well established, it constitutes, along with Melbourne, one of the two great centers of Australian Judaism.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗