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Address:
Rare Books, University of Sydney Library, University of Sydney NSW 2006
Opening Hours:
Open from Monday through to Wednesday from 9 am till 5 pm .
Contact:
Marianne Dacy
m.dacy@library.usyd.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9351 4162
Fax: +61 2 9351 2890
Additional information:
Location: Level 2, Fisher Library FO3.
Links:
Archive of Australian Judaica
University of Sydney
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Description:
The Archive is a collection of source materials relating to Jewish Life in Australia from the origin of the Jewish community up to the present day. The material housed in the Archive consists of a variety of types including anything of an archival or ephemeral nature, which reflects the multifaceted nature of Jewish life in Australia, and its social interactions with the broader Australian community. Reference and research collection of Australian Jewry; most comprehensive in Australia (75 individual collections; established 1983; 0.6 staff).
National significance: photographs of Australian Jewry; archives of Max Joseph's Jewish immigration 1939 - 1960; Ruby Rich-Schallit, Racial Hygiene Society founder 1920s; Nancy Keesing; Boaz Bischofswerder, refugee musician; Cyril Pearl collection containing watercolours of the Dunera, Hay and Tatura internment Camps; George Gregory of the Hungarian Red Cross.
International significance: 360 tapes of Holocaust survivors
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