List of Oceanian Jews

The vast majority of Jews in Oceania (estimation 120,000) live in Australia, with a population of about 7,000 in New Zealand (6867,[1] according to the 2013 NZ Census). Most are Ashkenazi Jews, with many being survivors of the Holocaust arriving during and after World War II. More recently, a significant number of Jews have arrived from South Africa, Israel, the United Kingdom and Russia. The official number of people who practised Judaism in the 2001 census was only 121,459 but this number is expected to be much higher, as it did not count those overseas (i.e. dual Australian-Israeli nationals) or many non-practicing Jews who prefer not to disclose religion in the census are more common. Ironically, ever since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Australia's Jewish population has hovered around 0.5% of the total counted.

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The vast majority of Australia's Jews live in inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney with smaller populations, in numerical order, in Perth, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Adelaide. Currently, there are also recognised communities in Ballarat, Bendigo/Castlemaine, Canberra, Geelong, Gosford, Hobart, Launceston and Newcastle.

In Melbourne, the Jewish population centre is Caulfield where there are streets with nearly a 100% Jewish population; the main areas of settlement spread out from Caulfield in two arcs: south through St Kilda, Elwood, Elsternwick, Brighton, Moorabbin and right down to Frankston; east through Toorak, Malvern, Hawthorn, Kew, Balwyn to Doncaster. In Sydney the major areas of Jewish settlement are in the east and on the North Shore, in particular the suburbs of Bondi, Dover Heights, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, St Ives and Hunters Hill.

In New Zealand, most Jews live in Auckland and Wellington with smaller populations in Dunedin and Christchurch. Dunedin synagogue has possibly the world's southernmost Jewish congregation.[2]

The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Australia

Academic figures

Business figures
Helena Rubenstein

Cultural figures
Jack Levi
Olivia Newton-John
Simon Tedeschi

Political figures
Sir Isaac Isaacs
Nicola Roxon

National figures

Local body politicians

Religious figures
Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple
  • Rabbi Dr Joseph Abrahams, prominent Melbourne rabbi of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in 1911 did not take up the call as Chief Rabbi on account of ill health[20]
  • Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple, Senior Rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Sydney, Senior Rabbi to the Australian Defence Force, Registrar of the Sydney Beth Din, author of OzTorah.com, and the leading spokesperson for Jews and Judaism in Australia from 1972 to 2005
  • Rabbi Elias Blaubaum, rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation for 40 years, newspaper editor[21]
  • Rabbi Abraham Tobias Boas, rabbi in Adelaide for about 40 years[22]
  • Rabbi Rudolph (Rudie) Brasch, senior reform rabbi in Sydney for over 30 years, a well-known author and broadcaster
  • Gen. Paul Cullen, founder of Emanuel Synagogue, Sydney, Army General
  • Rabbi Francis Cohen, prominent Sydney rabbi in the early 20th century[23]
  • Rabbi Jacob Danglow, rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation 1905–1962, one of the most prominent rabbis in both the Jewish and the general communities[24][25][26]
  • Rev Alexander Davis, over 30 years as minister of the York Street and Great synagogues[27]
  • Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Rabbi of the Yeshiva Centre
  • Rabbi David Freedman, rabbi in Perth for over 40 years[28]
  • Rabbi Harry Freedman, rabbi in Sydney and translator for Soncino Press
  • Rabbi David Freilich, rabbi in Perth 1988–2012[29]
  • Rabbi Ralph Genende, rabbi at Caulfield, and prominent in interfaith dialogue[30]
  • Rabbi Lazarus Goldman, rabbi at Toorak Road synagogue, author and historian, died on the bimah in 1960 whilst conducting a Kol Nidre service in Adelaide[31]
  • Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, director of many Chabad operations in Victoria
  • Rabbi J. L. Guerewitz, long serving rabbi at Carlton United synagogue
  • Rabbi Chaim Gutnick, formerly rabbi of Elwood Synagogue for over forty years and life president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria
  • Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick, rabbi at Elwood and member of the Beth Din
  • Rabbi Sholom Gutnick, rabbi at Caulfield for about 40 years, and Av Beth Din
  • Rabbi Philip Heilbrunn, Rabbi Emeritus and long-serving rabbi at St Kilda[32]
  • Rabbi John Levi, first Australian-born rabbi, prominent Progressive rabbi, teacher and historian[33][34]
  • Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky, rabbi at St Kilda for over 30 years[35]
  • Joseph Marcus, a convict who trained as a rabbi and who is reputed to have conducted the first Jewish services in Sydney
  • Rabbi Jerome Mark, the first Progressive rabbi in Australia[33][36]
  • Rev Joseph Myers, minister in Brisbane for 43 years[37]
  • Mrs Ada Phillips, founder of Australia's first permanent Progressive congregation in Melbourne[33][38]
  • Rabbi Israel Porush, prominent and long-serving Sydney rabbi[39]
  • Mr Abraham Rabinovitch, philanthropist and founder of Sydney's main Orthodox Jewish educational institutions
  • Rev Moses Rintel, first minister of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, and later of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation
  • Rabbi Louis Rubin-Zacks, rabbi in Perth for 25 years
  • Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger, important Melbourne progressive rabbi, responsible for the spread of progressive Judaism to other parts of Australia[40][33][41]
  • Rabbi Max Schenk, first Progressive rabbi in Sydney, early Zionist[42]

Sports figures
Michael Klinger
Steven Solomon

Other figures

Fiji
  • Alexander Schmerrill Bowman, businessman, early settler
  • Sir Henry Marks, businessman, politician

French Polynesia

Guam

New Zealand
Bendix Hallenstein
Taika Waititi
Sir Julius Vogel
Jo Aleh
Nathan Cohen

Business figures

Cultural figures

National figures

Local body politicians

Religious figures
  • Rabbi Herman van Staveren (1849–1930), rabbi of the Wellington Hebrew Congregation and senior NZ rabbi, 1877–1930[76]
  • Rabbi Samuel Goldstein (1852–1935), rabbi of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation for 54 years, 1880–1934[77]
  • Rabbi Alexander Astor (1900–1988), rabbi of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation, 1934–71[78]

Sports figures

Other figures

Palau

Samoa

See also

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