List of Oceanian Jews
Encyclopedia
The vast majority of Jews in Oceania
(c. 120,000) live in Australia
, with a small population (c. 5,000) in New Zealand
. Most are Ashkenazi Jews
of Eastern European background, 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
and Russia
. The official number of people who practiced Judaism in the 2001 census was only 83,459 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. The vast majority of Australia's Jews
live in inner suburbs of Melbourne
(particularly St Kilda
, Elwood
, Elsternwick
, Caulfield
and Toorak
) and Sydney
(Bondi
, Dover Heights
, Rose Bay
, Vaucluse
, St Ives
and Hunters Hill
) with smaller populations in Perth
and the Gold Coast
. 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.
The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Other city mayors include:
Oceania
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
(c. 120,000) live in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, with a small population (c. 5,000) in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. Most are Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north. Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for this region and thus for Germany...
of Eastern European background, with many being survivors of the Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
arriving during and after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. More recently, a significant number of Jews have arrived from South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
and Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. The official number of people who practiced Judaism in the 2001 census was only 83,459 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. The vast majority of Australia's Jews
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
live in inner suburbs of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
(particularly St Kilda
St Kilda, Victoria
St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...
, Elwood
Elwood, Victoria
Elwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...
, Elsternwick
Elsternwick, Victoria
Elsternwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira...
, Caulfield
Caulfield, Victoria
Caulfield is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira...
and Toorak
Toorak, Victoria
Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...
) and Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
(Bondi
Bondi, New South Wales
Bondi is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bondi is located seven kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council. The postcode is 2026.-Location:...
, Dover Heights
Dover Heights, New South Wales
Dover Heights is a coastal, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Dover Heights is located 9 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council...
, Rose Bay
Rose Bay, New South Wales
Rose Bay is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Rose Bay is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Municipal Council and Woollahra Council .Rose Bay has views of both the Sydney...
, Vaucluse
Vaucluse, New South Wales
Vaucluse is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Vaucluse is located north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and the Municipality of Woollahra....
, St Ives
St Ives, New South Wales
St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. St Ives is located 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council...
and Hunters Hill
Hunters Hill, New South Wales
Hunters Hill is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hunters Hill is located 9 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Hunter's Hill.Hunters Hill is situated on a...
) with smaller populations in Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
and the Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
. In New Zealand, most Jews live in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
and Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
with smaller populations in Dunedin
Dunedin
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
and Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
. Dunedin Synagogue has possibly the world's southernmost Jewish congregation.
The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Academic figures
- Roy Clive AbrahamRoy Clive AbrahamRoy Clive Abraham was a key figure in African language scholarship during the twentieth century...
, linguist - Samuel AlexanderSamuel AlexanderSamuel Alexander OM was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.-Early life:...
, philosopher - Sir Otto FrankelOtto FrankelSir Otto Herzberg Frankel was an Austrian-born Australian geneticist.- Early life and family :...
, geneticist - Bryan GaenslerBryan GaenslerBryan Malcolm Gaensler is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year, currently based at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on magnetars, supernova remnants and magnetic fields.- Education :...
, astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year - Joseph JacobsJoseph JacobsJoseph Jacobs was a folklorist, literary critic and historian. His works included contributions to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, translations of European works, and critical editions of early English literature...
, historian & folklorist - Kurt MahlerKurt MahlerKurt Mahler was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and Göttingen, graduating with a Ph.D...
, mathematician - Robert ManneRobert ManneRobert Manne is a professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.Born in Melbourne, Manne's earliest political consciousness was formed by the fact that his parents were Jewish refugees from Europe and his grandparents were victims of the Holocaust...
, academic & social critic - Bernhard NeumannBernhard NeumannBernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject....
, mathematician - Gustav NossalGustav NossalSir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA is an Australian research biologist.-Life and career:Gustav Nossal's family was from Vienna, Austria. He was born four weeks prematurely in Bad Ischl while his mother was on holiday...
, immunologist (Jewish father) - Luke Mettner, Academic & Mental Health Professional, co-founder of WAPPAFA
- Peter SingerPeter SingerPeter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
, philosopher - Victor SoloAcademic & Electrical Engineer
Business figures
- Sir Peter AbelesPeter AbelesSir Peter Emil Herbert Abeles, AC was an Australian transportation magnate. A refugee from Hungary, he became one of the most powerful businessmen in Australia, and was knighted in 1972.-Life:...
, former chairman of Ansett - Rodney AdlerRodney AdlerRodney Stephens Adler is an Australian businessman and former director of telecommunications company One.Tel and insurance company HIH, both of which collapsed in 2001. He was jailed in 2005 for his conduct related to the collapse of HIH....
, CEO of HIH InsuranceHIH InsuranceHIH Insurance was Australia's second largest insurance company. It was placed into provisional liquidation on 15 March 2001. The demise of HIH is considered to be the largest corporate collapse in Australia's history, with liquidators estimating that HIH's losses totalled up to $5.3 billion... - Albert BensimonAlbert BensimonAlbert Bensimon is a prominent businessman from Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia. He is mostly known to the public as the owner of Shiels Jewellers. As the owner, he has had high advertisement profiles involving the slogan of "No Hoo-Haa".Bensimon Born in Cairo, Egypt...
, AdelaideAdelaideAdelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
jeweller and businessman - Noel BidermanNoel BidermanNoel Biderman is the CEO of Avid Life Media, who owns a dating web site geared toward married individuals looking for an affair. Ashley Madison company was founded in 2001...
, CEO of Avid Entertainment and owner of Ashley MadisonAshley MadisonAshley Madison is an online dating service and social network service marketed primarily to people who are already in a relationship. The website was launched in 2001.... - Dr Alan Finkel, MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
pioneer in biotechnical instrumentation, founder of Axon Instruments, now Chancellor of Monash UniversityMonash UniversityMonash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL.... - John GandelJohn GandelJohn Gandel is an Australian businessman who made his fortune in the real estate industry. Gandel is ranked at #647 in Forbes's "The World's Richest People" list as of 2009. He ranked #6 on the BRW Rich 200 list in 2010...
& Marc Besen, founder/owners of Chadstone Shopping CentreChadstone Shopping CentreChadstone Shopping Centre is a super regional shopping centre located in the inner south-eastern suburb of Malvern East in the city of Melbourne, Australia...
and Sussan fashion chain - Joseph GutnickJoseph GutnickJoseph Isaac Gutnick is an Australian businessman and mining industry entrepreneur. He is also an ordained rabbi and is well known for his philanthropy in the Jewish world.-Business holdings:Among Gutnick's business holdings:...
, mining magnate & ex-President of Melbourne F.C.Melbourne Football ClubThe Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria.... - Poppy KingPoppy KingPoppy Cybele King is an Australian entrepreneur. She is best known for her company Poppy Industries and the range of cosmetics available at Poppy Stores in Australia, during the 1990s.-Early life:...
, cosmetist - Frank LowyFrank LowyFrank Lowy, AC is an Australian-Israeli businessman. He is a co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain...
, founder of The Westfield GroupThe Westfield GroupThe Westfield Group is an Australian shopping centre group undertaking ownership, development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property management, leasing and marketing activities... - Sidney MyerSidney MyerSidney Baevski Myer was a Russian Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for creating Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.-Early life:...
, founder of MyerMyerMyer is Australia's largest department store chain, retailing a broad range of merchandise including women's, men's and children's clothing, footwear and accessories; cosmetics and fragrance; homewares; electrical; furniture and bedding; toys; books and stationery; food and confectionery; and...
department store & philanthropist - Leon & Richard PrattRichard Pratt (Australian businessman)Richard J. Pratt was a prominent Australian businessman, chairman of the privately-owned company Visy Industries, and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death Pratt was Australia's fourth-richest person, with a personal fortune valued at billion...
, founder/owners of Visy IndustriesVisy IndustriesVisy Industries was established in Melbourne, Australia in 1948 and is headquartered at Level 11, 2 Southbank Boulevard,Melbourne, Australia. It has grown to become one of the world’s largest privately-owned paper recycling and packaging companies. In 2003, Visy employed more than 8000 people... - Rene RivkinRene RivkinRene Rivkin was an Australian entrepreneur, investor, investment adviser, and stockbroker. He was a well-known stockbroker in Australia for many years until his death in 2005.-Early life:...
, stockbroker - Paul Stein-Dunville, Co-Founder of the WA Professional Jewish Poker Association for Amateurs.
- Abe SaffronAbe SaffronAbraham Gilbert "Abe" Saffron was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century....
, nightclub owner - Joe SaragossiJoe SaragossiJoseph "Joe" Saragossi, AO was an Australian businessman and former chairman of G.James Glass & Aluminium.-Business career:...
founder G James Australia leading glass and window manufacturers with over 2500 employees. - John SaundersJohn SaundersJohn Saunders is a Canadian–American sports journalist from Toronto, Ontario. He is currently working for ESPN and ABC.-Early life and career:...
, co-founder of The Westfield GroupThe Westfield GroupThe Westfield Group is an Australian shopping centre group undertaking ownership, development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property management, leasing and marketing activities... - Sidney SinclairSidney SinclairSidney Sinclair was an English born, Australian businessman, philanthropist, trade advisor to the Federal Government and prominent member of the Australian Jewish community....
, AM, OBE, Men's Fashion (including Anthony Squires, Sax Altman, Parini, Martin Wells, Ermenegildo Zegna), Export Development Council, Australia-Japan Business Cooperation Committee, federal advisory panel on East European countries, founder president of the Men’s Fashion Council of Australia, honorary life member of the Australian Superfine Woolgrowers’ Association, Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow, A founder president and life member of the Parramatta Synagogue, President and life member The Great SynagogueGreat Synagogue (Sydney)The Great Synagogue is a large synagogue in Sydney, Australia. It is located in Elizabeth Street opposite Hyde Park and extends back to Castlereagh Street.-Description and history:...
Sydney, president of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society in NSW, president of the Federation of Australian Jewish Community Services, councillor of the NSW Jewish War Memorial, member Executive Council of Australian Jewry, trustee of the Goulburn Jewish cemetery, - Smorgon familySmorgon familyThe Smorgon family may refer to:*Graham Smorgon*David SmorgonThe family is famous for its establishment of Smorgon Steel....
, founder/owners of Smorgon SteelSmorgon SteelSmorgon Steel was an Australian steel manufacturing business established in the 1980s by the Smorgon family of Melbourne. The chairman of the company board was Graham Smorgon....
and other businesses - Harry TriguboffHarry TriguboffHarry Oscar Triguboff AO is an Australian property developer and strong proponent of population growth in Australia to a hundred million. Also known as "High-Rise Harry" -Early life:...
, millionaire, Meriton Apartments
Cultural figures
- Claudia BlackClaudia BlackClaudia Lee Black is an Australian actress and voice actor, known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in the science fiction television series Farscape, Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, Chloe Frazer in the Uncharted series, the witch Morrigan in Dragon Age: Origins and...
, actress - Steve BedwellSteve BedwellSteve Bedwell is a comedian and comedy writer from Melbourne, Australia. He has appeared on Triple M, Russell Gilbert Live and Tonight Live With Steve Vizard. He is also a fill in host on Melbourne radio station 3AW....
, comedian/broadcaster - Danny Ben-MosheDanny Ben-MosheDanny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an Associate Professor at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He coproduced and codirected the documentary "The Buchenwald Ball" and recently completed the documentary "The End of the Rainbow" about a week in the life of the iconic live...
, writer - Rachel BergerRachel BergerRachel Berger is an Australian comedian, actor, and writer. Berger was born in Israel to Polish Jewish parents and emigrated to Melbourne at the age of five....
, comedian - Lily BrettLily BrettLily Brett is an award-winning Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. Much of her writing deals with her Jewish family semi-biographically and with her feelings about the Holocaust....
, writer - Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning writer
- Saskia BurmeisterSaskia BurmeisterSaskia Burmeister is anAustralian actress. She is most known for her roles in Hating Alison Ashley and Sea Patrol....
, actress - Judy CassabJudy CassabJudy Cassab CBE AO is an Australian painter. She has twice won the Archibald Prize.Judy Cassab was born Judit Kaszab in Vienna, Austria in 1920 to Hungarian parents...
, painter - Deborah ConwayDeborah ConwayDeborah Ann Conway, is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and had a career as a model and actor. She was a founding member of the 1980s rock band Do-Ré-Mi with their surprise top 5 hit "Man Overboard"....
, singer/songwriter - Ed DoolanEd DoolanEdwin Myer Doolan is an Australian born naturalised British radio presenter who is a twenty-eight year veteran of the BBC and was awarded the MBE in 1998...
, Australian-born British broadcaster - Isla FisherIsla FisherIsla Lang Fisher is an actress and author. She began acting on Australian television, on the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away...
(1976 - ) model, actress - Luke FordLuke FordLuke Ford is an American writer, blogger, and former pornography gossip columnist known for his disclosures and traditionalist Jewish religious views.-Personal:Ford moved to California in 1977...
, Los Angeles gossip columnist, journalist, moral leader (converted) - FourPlay Electric String QuartetFourPlay Electric String QuartetFourPlay String Quartet is a four-piece rock band from Sydney, Australia, formed in 1995. It should not be confused with a smooth jazz group in the United States also known as Fourplay....
(3/4 Jewish) - Amelia FridAmelia FridAmelia Frid is an Australian actress who played Cody Willis in Neighbours. She retired from acting to concentrate on studies and her current profession is forensic psychology. Frid's final appearance in Neighbours as Cody Willis was 30 July 1991 which was her 16th birthday...
, former child actress - Anthony Frosh, comedic hoax perpetrator, and champion matkotMatkotMatkot is a popular paddle ball game in Israel similar to beach tennis, often referred to as the country's national sport.Matkot is a non-competitive beach game in which two or more players hit a small ball back and forth using paddles...
player - Renée GeyerRenée GeyerRenée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...
, soul singer - Alan GoldAlan Gold (author)Alan David Gold, is an Australian novelist, literary critic and human rights activist.Gold was born in Leicester, UK and began his working life on British provincial newspapers such as the Leicester Mercury before becoming a freelance correspondent in the United Kingdom and Europe.He has written...
, author - Libby Gorr, comedian
- David HelfgottDavid HelfgottDavid Helfgott is an Australian concert pianist. He is as well known for having schizoaffective disorder as he is for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film Shine, in which he was played by Geoffrey Rush....
, pianist - David HirschfelderDavid HirschfelderDavid Hirschfelder is an Australian film score composer and performer.Hirschfelder was born and raised in Ballarat, Victoria....
, film composer - Elena Kats-CherninElena Kats-CherninElena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer.Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent , and migrated to Australia in 1975.-Europe:...
, composer - Danny Katz, writer/comedian
- Barrie KoskyBarrie KoskyBarrie KoskyBarrie Kosky's name is sometimes misspelled as Barry Kosky, Barrie Koski, Barrie Koskie. is an Australian theatre and opera director.Kosky also plays the piano, as he did in his production of Monteverdi's Poppea...
, creative director - Tony Krawitz, film maker
- Ben LeeBen LeeBenjamin Michael "Ben" Lee is an ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake...
, singer/songwriter - Frederick Lee, model/actor
- Jack Levi, aka Elliot GobletElliot GobletElliot Goblet is a character created by the Australian comedian Jack Levi.The character is renowned for his deadpan delivery of quirky one-liners - his style can draw comparisons with that of the American comic Steven Wright...
- LiorLiorLior is a male, independent Australian singer-songwriter based in Melbourne.-Career:In early 2005, Lior independently self-released his debut album Autumn Flow, certified gold by ARIA...
, singer/songwriter - Ben MendelsohnBen MendelsohnPaul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohn is an Australian actor.-Early life:Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Carole Ann and Frederick Mendelsohn. He attended Heidelberg Primary School and Banyule High School. His father is a prominent medical researcher who heads the Howard Florey...
, actor - David MaloufDavid MaloufDavid George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
, writer (Jewish mother) - Bill MeyerBill Meyer (artist)-Life:Bill Meyer Born in Australia, Bill Meyer graduated from Melbourne University in art history and languages and then from the National Gallery Art School, , completing his formal art training at the Royal College of Art in London...
artist - Keren Minshell, lead singer of 90's band EuphoriaEuphoria (Australian band)Euphoria was a popular Australian Pop/Dance music trio from the early 1990s based in Sydney, NSW. The group was founded by producer Andrew Klippel and featured the vocals of Keren Minshull and Holly Garnett...
- Isaac NathanIsaac NathanIsaac Nathan was an Anglo-Australian composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist, who ended an eventful career by becoming the "father of Australian music".-Early success:...
Australia's first composer - Helmut NewtonHelmut NewtonHelmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."-Early life:Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara...
, photographer - Elliot PerlmanElliot PerlmanElliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...
, writer - John SafranJohn SafranJohn Safran is an Australian documentary maker and radio broadcaster, known for combining humour with explorations into religion and other issues...
, comedian/documentarian - Harry SeidlerHarry SeidlerHarry Seidler, AC OBE was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.Harry Seidler designed more than 180 buildings and he...
, architect - Austen TayshusAusten TayshusAusten Tayshus is the stage name of Jewish Australian comedian Alexander Jacob Gutman. He is best known for the comedy single "Australiana", a spoken word piece filled with Australian puns.-Biography:...
, comedian - Simon TedeschiSimon TedeschiSimon Tedeschi is a Boston-based classical pianist from Australia.-Life and career:Simon Tedeschi was born in Sydney to Mark Tedeschi QC, the New South Wales Crown Prosecutor and a prominent photographer and Vivienne Tedeschi, who is the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin,...
, pianist - Roy van der Schluss, aka Roy ReneRoy ReneRoy Rene , born Harry van der Sluys, was an Australian comedian and vaudevillian. As the bawdy character Mo McCackie, Rene was one of the most well-known and successful Australian comedians of the 20th century. Roy Rene was born in Adelaide in the 15 of February 1892 with the name Harry van der...
& Mo Macackie, music hall, theatrical and radio comedian - YidcoreYidcoreYidcore is a Jewish punk rock band from Australia, known for playing punk covers of Jewish and Israeli songs. Though most of their material is covers, the band started writing more of its own material in later albums....
's Members (Bram, Myki, Tim and Rory), Jewish Punk Band, from Melbourne, Australia - Daniel Zaidel, picture researcher
- Jack FeldsteinJack FeldsteinJack Feldstein is a Jewish animator and scriptwriter from Sydney, Australia, now living in New York. He is the pioneer of Neon Films.His trademark style is the "neonizing" of a combination of live action video recording and public domain material, particularly cartoons...
, scriptwriter/neon animator
Political figures
- Peter BaumePeter BaumePeter Erne Baume, AC is a former Australian politician.Baume was born in Sydney, New South Wales and was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney Grammar School. He married Jennifer Tucson 1958 and they have one son and one daughter...
, Liberal cabinet minister, chancellor of the Australian National UniversityAustralian National UniversityThe Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students... - Moss CassMoss CassMoses Henry Cass is a former member of the Australian House of Representatives. Born in Narrogin, Western Australia, Cass was educated in state schools before graduating in Medicine from the University of Sydney and worked as a Research Fellow at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and as...
, former LaborAustralian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
cabinet minister - Barry CohenBarry CohenBarry Cohen AM is a former Australian Labor politician. He was a minister in the government of Bob Hawke.-Biography:He was born in Griffith, New South Wales and educated at Griffith High School, Sydney Grammar School and North Sydney Technical High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the...
, Labor government minister in the Federal Parliament (1983-1987) - Ian CohenIan CohenIan Cohen is an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1995 to 2011, for The Greens...
, Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative CouncilNew South Wales Legislative CouncilThe New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...
(1995-2011) - Sir Zelman CowenZelman CowenSir Zelman Cowen, was the 19th Governor-General of Australia. He is currently the oldest living former Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...
, Governor GeneralGovernor-General of AustraliaThe Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...
(1977–1982) - Michael DanbyMichael DanbyMichael David Danby is an Australian politician and has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Melbourne Ports, Victoria...
, Labor member of the Australian House of RepresentativesAustralian House of RepresentativesThe House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years.... - Mark DreyfusMark DreyfusMark Alfred Dreyfus QC , Australian lawyer and politician, is the Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Isaacs, Victoria. He was elected in the 2007 federal election.- Early life :...
QC, Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives - Marcus EinfeldMarcus EinfeldMarcus Richard Einfeld is a retired Australian justice of the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory; a former President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; a UNICEF Ambassador for Children; a...
, human rights activist and former Federal Court judge - Sydney Einfeld, New South Wales Minister for Consumer Affairs (1976–1981)
- Josh Frydenberg, LiberalLiberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
member of the Australian House of Representatives - Jennifer HuppertJennifer HuppertJennifer Huppert is an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, she was a solicitor before entering politics. On 3 February 2009, she was appointed to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Labor member for Southern Metropolitan Region to replace Evan Thornley, who retired.Huppert was...
, Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council (2009-2010) - Martin IndykMartin IndykMartin Sean Indyk is Vice President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Indyk served as United States ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration. He is known as the framer of the U.S...
, United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
ambassador to IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
(1995-1997 and 2000-2001) - Sir Isaac IsaacsIsaac IsaacsSir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG KC was an Australian judge and politician, was the third Chief Justice of Australia, ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post. He is the only person ever to have held both positions of Chief Justice of Australia and...
, Governor General (1931–1936) - Dr John Kaye, Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
- Sir John MonashJohn MonashGeneral Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the War and then became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt shortly after the outbreak of the War with whom he took part...
, World War I general and engineer. - Martin PakulaMartin PakulaMartin Philip Pakula is an Australian politician, and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. He was Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Public Transport in the Labor Government of Premier John Brumby.-Early life:...
, Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council - Eric RoozendaalEric RoozendaalEric Roozendaal is an Australian politician, serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2004. He is a former General Secretary of the Australian Labor Party....
, NSW Labor cabinet minister (2008-2011). Current member of the New South Wales Legislative Council - Elias SolomonElias SolomonElias Solomon was an Australian politician. Born in London, England, he migrated to Australia as a child. He had no formal education, but in 1868 became a clerk and auctioneer in Fremantle in Western Australia. In 1877 he was elected to the Fremantle City Council...
, former member of Federal Parliament - David SouthwickDavid SouthwickDavid James Southwick is an Australian politician, and has been the member for Caulfield in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2010.-References:...
, Liberal Member of the Victorian Legislative AssemblyVictorian Legislative AssemblyThe Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:... - James WolfensohnJames WolfensohnSir James David Wolfensohn AO KBE FKC was the ninth president of the World Bank Group.-Early life:James Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, on 1 December 1933...
, World Bank president - Joe BerinsonJoe BerinsonJoseph Max "Joe" Berinson is a former Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from the 1969 election until his defeat by Ross McLean at the 1975 election, representing the division of Perth, Western Australia...
, Member of Federal Parliament, Minister in Whitlam's third Cabinet, State Upper house member, State Labor cabinet minister and Attorney General of Western Australia - Leo Port, Lord Mayor of Sydney (1975–1978)
- Sir Albert WolffAlbert Wolff (Australian judge)Sir Albert Asher Wolff KCMG was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia...
, Chief Justice of Western Australia.
Religious figures
- RabbiRabbiIn Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
Dr Joseph Abrahams, senior minister Melbourne Hebrew Congregation throughout the latter third of the 19th Century and first third of the 20th Century. - Rabbi Dr. Raymond Apple, emeritus senior rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Senior Rabbi to the Australian Defence Force, Registrar of the Sydney Beth DinBeth dinA beth din, bet din, beit din or beis din is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Biblical Land of Israel...
, author of OzTorah.com, and the leading spokesperson for Jews and Judaism in Australia from 1972-2005. - Rev. Elias Blaubaum, minister of Melbourne's St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation for nearly 40 years.
- Rev. A. T. Boas, long-standing minister of the Adelaide Hebrew Congregation in the latter part of the 19th Century and early part of the 20th Century.
- Rabbi Rudolph (Ruddy) BraschRudolph BraschRudolph Brasch AM OBE was an Australian rabbi and author.He was born in Berlin, Germany and moved to London when Hitler gained power in 1933...
, senior reform rabbi in Sydney for over 30 years, a well known author and broadcaster. - Rabbi Frances Cohen, long standing senior minister at Sydney's Great Synagogue throughout the first third of the 20th Century.
- Rabbi Jacob Danglow, senior minister at Melbourne's St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation for over 50 years, Chaplian to the Australian Defence Force during WWI and WWII, etc.
- Rev. Alexander Davis, senior minister at Sydney's Great Synagogue for over 40 years in the latter part of the 19th Century.
- Rabbi Pinchus FeldmanPinchus FeldmanRabbi Pinchus Feldman OAM is the and first Chabad shaliach of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in New South Wales, Australia....
, Rabbi of the Yeshiva Centre. - Rabbi David Freedman (Rabbi), formerly the rabbi of Belmont Synagogue (London) from 1973–1988 and Kehillat Masada (Sydney) 1988-2007.
- Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid GronerYitzchok Dovid GronerRabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner , was the most senior Chabad rabbi in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and the director of the Yeshivah Centre, which includes the Yeshiva Shul, the Kollel Menachem Lubavitch, a boys' school known as Yeshivah College, a girls' school known as Beth Rivkah Ladies College, a...
, director of many Chabad operations in Victoria. - Rabbi Chaim GutnickChaim GutnickShneur Chaim Gutnick , was a prominent Orthodox Jewish Chabad rabbi in Australia....
, formerly rabbi of Elwood Synagogue for over forty years and life president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria. - Rabbi John Levi, senior reform rabbi in Melbourne throughout the latter third of the 20th Century and early 21st Century, Chaiplain to the Australian Defence Force.
- Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky, senior minister at Melbourne's St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation for nearly 40 years.
- Rabbi Fred MorganFred MorganFrederick "Fred" Henry Morgan was a South African sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics....
, senior minister at Melbourne's Temple Beth Israel. - Rabbi Israel Porush, senior minister at Sydney's Great Synagogue for nearly 40 years.
- Mr Abraham RabinovitchAbraham RabinovitchAbraham Rabinovitch was a well-respected pioneer of the Sydney Jewish community, in particular as a founder and philanthropist of Sydney's full-time Jewish educational institutions. Rabinovitch was born in Russia in 1889, and died July 1964 in Sydney.-Accomplishments:Rabinovitch founded two large...
, philanthropist and founder of Sydney's main Orthodox Jewish educational institutions. - Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger, senior reform rabbi in Melbourne for over 40 years.
Sports figures
- Michael KlingerMichael KlingerMichael Klinger is a first-class cricketer with the South Australia Redbacks. His nickname is "Maxy", after the M*A*S*H character Maxwell Klinger....
, cricketer. Also an ex collegian at Mount Scopus Memorial CollegeMount Scopus Memorial CollegeMount Scopus Memorial College is a Jewish private school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.- History :Mount Scopus Memorial College opened on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1949, taking its name from Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, which remained under Israeli control after the 1948...
. - Albert RosenfeldAlbert RosenfeldAlbert Aaron Rosenfeld was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer, a national representative whose club career was played in Sydney and in England...
, rugby league player - Brent HarveyBrent HarveyBrent "Boomer" Harvey is an Australian rules footballer and the current captain of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
, champion AFL footballer - Lionel Van PraagLionel Van PraagLionel Maurice Van Praag, GM was an Australian motorcycle speedway champion, who won the inaugural Speedway World Championship in London on 10 September 1936.-1932 UK National League Champion:...
, speedway champion - Riley Toms, racketball champion of NSW
- Peter FuzesPeter FuzesPeter Fuzes is an Australian former association footballer. Fuzes played as a goalkeeper.-Club career:Fuzes began his senior club career for Hakoah in the New South Wales State League in 1965. He played for Hakoah until 1971. In 1972 he transferred to APIA Leichhardt. He stayed at APIA for two...
, soccer goalkeeper for Hakoah and Australia, Maccabi Hall of Fame 2003. Played 1st grade 1964 till 1976; International career From 1966 to 1972, against Scotland 1967, Greece 1969, Israel 1969 & 1972. Played against various European club sides including AS ROMA 1966, Manchester United at the time of Bobby Charlton & Dennis Law. - David ZalcbergDavid ZalcbergDavid Zalcberg is a left-handed Australian table tennis player. He is Jewish.- Table tennis career :...
Australian Jewish Olympic Table Tennis Player. Also an ex collegian at Mount Scopus Memorial CollegeMount Scopus Memorial CollegeMount Scopus Memorial College is a Jewish private school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.- History :Mount Scopus Memorial College opened on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1949, taking its name from Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, which remained under Israeli control after the 1948...
. - John Stark, Butterfly 200 metres swimmer. Tokyo Olympics 1964, National 200 m. champion, Maccabian gold medallist 1965. Maccabi Hall of fame inducted 1999.
Business figures
- Bendix HallensteinBendix HallensteinBendix Hallenstein was a merchant, statesman, and manufacturer from Dunedin, New Zealand. He was born in Brunswick, Germany. A clothing retailer, Hallensteins, still bears his name. He also founded the D.I.C...
, clothing manufacturer and merchant - Michael HirschfeldMichael HirschfeldMichael Avigdor Hirschfeld was a Wellington, New Zealand multi-millionaire businessman, and was President of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1995 to 1999....
, businessman, activist & Labour PartyNew Zealand Labour PartyThe New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. It describes itself as centre-left and socially progressive and has been one of the two primary parties of New Zealand politics since 1935....
president - William LevinWilliam LevinWilliam Hort Levin was a 19th century New Zealand politician and businessman in Wellington, New Zealand.He represented two Wellington electorates, first the Wellington electorate from 1879 to 1881, and then the Thorndon electorate from 1881 to 1884, when he resigned due to ill-health.He ran the...
, businessman, benefactor - Joseph Nathan, founder of GlaxoSmithKlineGlaxoSmithKlineGlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...
Cultural figures
- Esmond de Beer, historian, collector, philanthropist
- Gina BellmanGina BellmanGina Bellman is a New Zealand-born British actress currently starring in the series Leverage as Sophie Devereaux for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in Television.-Personal life:...
, actress - Charles BraschCharles BraschCharles Orwell Brasch was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal Landfall....
, poet, literature patron - Taika Cohen, film director, writer, painter, comedian and actor
- Angela D'Audney, television anchor
- Benjamin FarjeonBenjamin FarjeonBenjamin Leopold Farjeon was a British novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. As an author, he was known for his huge output....
, writer - Willi Fels, philanthropist and collector
- Richard FuchsRichard FuchsRichard Fuchs, composer and architect, was born in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, on 26 April 1887 and died in Wellington, New Zealand, on 22 September 1947. The football player Gottfried Fuchs was his younger brother....
, composer and architect - Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonJeffrey Moussaieff MassonDr. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is an American author, residing in New Zealand. Masson is best known for his conclusions about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis...
, author
Political figures
- Frederick BaumeFrederick BaumeFrederick Ehrenfried Baume was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party.From 1902 to 1905 he was one of the three Members of Parliament representing the multi-member City of Auckland electorate....
, Member of Parliament - Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, Prime Minister (1925) (Jewish mother)
- Mark BlumskyMark BlumskyMark Herbert Blumsky QSO is a New Zealand politician. He was Mayor of Wellington from 1995 to 2001, and Member of Parliament for the National Party from 2005 to 2008...
, Mayor of WellingtonWellingtonWellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
(1995–2001) - Sir Tom Eichelbaum, Chief Justice (1989–1999)
- Dame Barbara GoodmanBarbara GoodmanDame Barbara Goodman, DBE, QSO, JP is an Auckland, New Zealand politician.She was Mayoress of Auckland City as well as a former Auckland City Councillor for 12 years...
, Auckland local body politician - John KeyJohn KeyJohn Phillip Key is the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand, in office since 2008. He has led the New Zealand National Party since 2006....
(1961 - ), current New Zealand Prime Minister (Jewish mother) - Sir Arthur MyersArthur MyersSir Arthur Mielziner Myers was a New Zealand politician. He was Mayor of Auckland City from 1905 to 1909, Member of the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1921, and a Cabinet Minister...
, politician, businessman - Sir Michael Myers, chief justice (1929–1946)
- Philip Phillips, first mayor of AucklandAucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
(1871–1874) - Sir Dove-Myer RobinsonDove-Myer RobinsonSir Dove-Myer Robinson was Mayor of Auckland City from 1959 to 1965 and from 1968 to 1980, the longest tenure of any holder of the office....
, long-time mayor of Auckland (1959–1965, 1968–1980) - Sir Julius VogelJulius VogelSir Julius Vogel, KCMG was the eighth Premier of New Zealand. His administration is best remembered for the issuing of bonds to fund railway construction and other public works...
, Prime Minister (1873–1875, 1876), newspaper founder, & science-fiction writer
Other city mayors include:
- Auckland: Henry Isaacs (1874), Sir Ernest DavisErnest Hyam DavisSir Ernest Hyam Davies was a New Zealand businessman, and was Mayor of Auckland City, New Zealand from 1935 to 1941. He was also on other Auckland local bodies and on various philanthropic and sporting organisations...
(1935–1941) and Colin KayColin KayColin Kay CBE was a New Zealand sportsman and politician. He was the 34th Mayor of Auckland City, elected for one term serving from 1980 to 1983, and chairman of the Auckland Regional Council from 1986 to 1992...
(1980–1983) - Christchurch: Charles LouissonCharles LouissonCharles Melville Louisson , known as Charles Louisson or Chas Louisson, was a New Zealand politician. Born in London, and relocated to Australia as a teenager, he worked in farming and on the gold fields...
(1888–1889, 1898–1899) - Invercargill: Eve Poole
- Wellington: Ian LawrenceIan LawrenceIan Lawrence is a Wellington lawyer, and was the Mayor of Wellington from 1983 to 1986. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and University of Sydney. He was previously Chairman of the National Housing Commission....
(1986–1989)
Other figures
- Lev AptekarLev AptekarLev Isaakovich Aptekar is a Jewish Soviet–New Zealand chess master, coach and writer.He took 15th in the Kiev championship of 1963. In the middle of 1970s, he left the Soviet Union for New Zealand. In 1975/76, he shared first with Murray Chandler and Ortvin Sarapu in the 83rd New Zealand...
, chess master - Sir Louis BarnettLouis BarnettSir Louis Edward Barnett, CMG was a professor of surgery and founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.His work at the Otago Medical School, where he was one of the schools earliest students, and with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons led to the recognition of hydatid disease...
, surgeon - Ethel BenjaminEthel BenjaminEthel Rebecca Benjamin was New Zealand’s first female lawyer. On 17 September 1897, she became the first woman in the British Empire to appear as counsel in court, representing a client for the recovery of a debt...
, first woman lawyer in the British Empire - Sir Peter GluckmanPeter GluckmanSir Peter David Gluckman, KNZM, FRS, FMedSc, FRSNZ is a New Zealand scientist who is the first Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. -Life:...
, science adviser - Wally Hirsch, former Race Relations Conciliator
- Pei Te Hurinui Jones, Ngati Maniapoto leader & scholar (Jewish father)
- Josh KronfeldJosh KronfeldJoshua Adrian Kronfeld is a former rugby union footballer who represented New Zealand at international level and Otago, the Highlanders and Leicester at first-class level...
, rugby player - Louis Potaka, Doctor and Maori Antarctic explorer on Byrd's 1934 -35 Expedition
- Joel Samuel PolackJoel Samuel PolackJoel Samuel Polack was one of the first Jewish settlers in New Zealand, arriving in 1831. He is regarded as an authority on pre-colonial New Zealand and his two books are often cited.-Early life:...
, pioneer settler - Julius StoneJulius StoneJulius Stone was Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972, and thereafter a visiting Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and concurrently Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the Hastings...
, distinguished legal theorist, professor of jurisprudence and international law