Judaism in Australia

See also: Australian Jews

Australian Jews
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Total population
91,022[1] 0.4% of Australia's population
Languages
Australian English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, French, Persian, Arabic, Spanish, Afrikaans, Bukhori, Polish, German, Chinese.

People affiliated with Judaism as a percentage of the total population in Australia at the 2011 census, divided geographically by statistical local area

Judaism is a minority religion in Australia. 91,022 Australians identified as Jewish in the 2016 census, which accounts for about 0.4% of the population.^[2] This is a 6% drop in numbers from the 2011 census, although the drop could have been because of the poor running of the census leaving many Jews uncomfortable with revealing their religion.^[3]

There are many estimates of how many Jews are in Australia, with some estimates going as high as 250,000.

Contents

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  1 History
  
  
  
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    1.1 Affiliations
    
  
  
  
  


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  2 Demographics
  


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  3 People
  


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  4 See also
  


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  5 References
  

History

Main article: History of the Jews in Australia

In 1830 the first Jewish wedding in Australia was celebrated, the contracting parties being Moses Joseph and Rosetta Nathan.^[4]

Jewish immigration came at a time of antisemitism and the Returned Services League and other groups publicized cartoons to encourage the government and the immigration Minister Arthur A. Calwell to stem the flow of Jewish immigrants.^[5]

Affiliations

The Great Synagogue of Sydney.

Until the 1930s, all synagogues in Australia were affiliated with Orthodox, acknowledging leadership of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom. To this day, about 70% of synagogues in Australia are Orthodox.

There had been at least two short-lived efforts to establish Reform congregations, the first as early as the 1890s. However, in 1930, under the leadership of Ada Phillips, a Liberal or Progressive congregation, Temple Beth Israel (Melbourne, Australia), was permanently established in Melbourne. In 1938 the long-serving Senior Rabbi, Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger, was instrumental in establishing another synagogue, Temple Emanuel in Sydney. He also played a part in founding a number of other Liberal synagogues in other cities in both Australia and New Zealand. The first Australian-born rabbi, Rabbi Dr John Levi, served the Australian Liberal movement.^[6]

Demographics

People affiliated with Judaism as a percentage of the total population in Sydney at the 2011 census, divided geographically by postal area

A poster of Menachem Mendel Schneerson at the entrance of a Chabad house in Bondi Beach in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.

About 90 percent of the Australian Jewish community live in Sydney and Melbourne.^[7]Melbourne Ports has the largest Jewish community of any electorate in Australia.^[8]

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has estimated that 60,000 Australian Jews live in Victoria.^[9] In Frankston, the Jewish community has nearly doubled since 2007.^[10]

In Adelaide Australian Jews have been present throughout the history of the city, with many successful civic leaders and people in the arts.^[11]

According to the 2016 census, the Jewish population numbered 91,020 individuals, of whom 46% lived in Greater Melbourne, 39% in Greater Sydney, and 6% in Greater Perth. The states and territories with the highest proportion of Jews are Victoria (0.71%) and New South Wales (0.49%), whereas those with the lowest are the Northern Territory and Tasmania (both 0.05%).^[12]

The same social and cultural characteristics of Australia that facilitated the extraordinary economic, political, and social success of the Australian Jewish community have also been attributed to contributing to widespread assimilation.^[13]

Community success can also be measured by the vibrancy of Australian Jewish Media. While traditional Jewish print media is in decline,^[14] new media forms such as podcasts,^[15] online magazines,^[16] and blogs^[17] have stepped into the breach.^[18][19]

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People

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  Roy Clive Abraham, linguist


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  Raymond Apple, Senior Rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Sydney
  


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  Lior Attar, singer, musician


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  Hajnal Ban Black, Israeli born author, politician


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  Danny Ben-Moshe, writer


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  John Bluthal, actor


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  Ashley Brown, soccer player


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  Jordan Brown, soccer player


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  Saskia Burmeister, actress


• Sir Zelman Cowen, politician, Governor-General of Australia


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  Mark Dreyfus, former attorney general


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  James Edelman, High Court Justice


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  Alex Fein, activist and entrepreneur


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  Gavin Fingleson, Olympic silver medalist baseball player


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  Alan Finkel, Australia's Chief Scientist
  


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  Amelia Frid, Russian-born actress


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  Josh Frydenberg politician and deputy leader of the Liberal party


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  John Gandel, businessman, philanthropist


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  Renee Geyer, soul singer


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  Todd Goldstein, AFL Player for the North Melbourne Kangaroos
  


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  David Gonski, businessman, philanthropist


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  Todd Greenberg, NRL executive


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  David Helfgott, pianist (inspired Academy Award-winning film Shine)


• Sir Isaac Isaacs, Judge and politician, Chief Justice of Australia, and Governor-General of Australia


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  Barrie Kosky, opera director


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  Ben Lee, singer, songwriter and actor


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  John Levi, Rabbi


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  Solomon Lew, businessman


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  Frank Lowy, Slovak-born Israeli Australian businessman


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  David Malouf, writer


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  Miriam Margolyes, British-Australian actress


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  John Monash, Australian General


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  Jonathan Moss, former first-class cricketer for the Victoria cricket team (2000 - 2007). Played for Australia at the Maccabiah Games in Israel


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  Phil Moss, manager of the Central Coast Mariners in the A-League, and former soccer player in the National Soccer League


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  Bernhard Neumann, German-born British-Australian mathematician


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  Henry Ninio, Egyptian-born Lord Mayor of Adelaide


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  Martin Pakula, politician


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  Leon Pole, artist


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  Anthony Pratt, Australian businessman


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  Richard Pratt, businessman


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  Ohad Rain, Australian-born Israeli singer-songwriter


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  Mark Regev, Australian-born Israeli diplomat and civil servant


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  Louis Rubin-Zacks, rabbi


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  Sheree Rubinstein, entrepreneur, women's business leader and advocate


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  John Safran, comedian


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  Sidney Sinclair, businessman


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  Peter Singer, philosopher


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  Troye Sivan, South African-born Australian singer, actor and YouTuber


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  Victor Smorgon, businessman


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  Ikey Solomon, convict, first fleet prisoner


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  Steven Solomon, sprinter


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  David Southwick, politician


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  Elana Stone, musician


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  Yael Stone, actress


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  Harry Triguboff, Chinese-born Australian businessman


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  Lionel Van Praag, speedway champion


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  Alex Waislitz, businessman


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  Julien Wiener, cricketer


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  Felix Werder, German born


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  Yitzhak Yedid, Israeli born composer


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  David Zalcberg, table tennis player


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  Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist and revivalist

See also

• History of the Jews in Australia


• List of Oceanian Jews


• Religion in Australia

References

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