People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

16 July, 1907
Jerusalem, Israel

Death

22 May, 1991 (aged 83)
Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

cancer (bowel)

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Israeli

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Jewish

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• historian (general)
• Rabbi
• Semitic scholar
• Zionist

Awards

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• B'nai B'rith award

Key Organisations

• Association of Sephardim
• Canberra Jewish Centre
• New South Wales Board of Jewish Education
• Sydney Beth Din
• New South Wales Council of Christians and Jews
• Australian Jewish Historical Society
• Association of Orthodox Rabbis of Australia and New Zealand
• Jewish War Memorial (NSW)

Political Activism

• Mizrachi movement

Workplaces

• University of Sydney (classical Hebrew)
• Great Synagogue (Sydney)