A Networked Community
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
052287634X
ISBN 13
9780522876345
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Melbourne University Press, Australia
Pages
xi, 244 pages : ill
Subject
Australian ; Jewish Diaspora ; Jews -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History ; Melbourne (Vic) -- History -- 1834-1900
Description
In 1835 a renegade group of Tasmanians wishing to expand their landholdings disembarked in what was to become Melbourne. This colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish convict Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at the foundation of colonisation. Unlike many other settlers, these Jews predominantly came from urban backgrounds. Although principally from London, some of them had experienced other forms of Jewish urbanism--in central and eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Caribbean--and applied their experience to the formation of a new emancipated conceptualisation of urban Judaism.
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