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Bidding Information
Lot #    18205
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:43:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Prayer Book for ... Australian Fighting Forces
Title (Hebrew)    קיצור סדר תפלה
Author    [Holocaust - Liturgy - Unrecorded]
City    Sydney
Publisher    Hogbin Coker Pty.
Publication Date    (1943)
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    ix, 84:84, 85-86 pp., 161:100 mm., crisp sheets. A very good copy bound in the original paper wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    High Holiday prayer book for the Jewish soldiers serving in the Australian Armed Forces. At least six Jewish convicts who arrived at Botany Bay, New South Wales, in 1788 were later among the first settlers, including John Harris who, when freed, became the first policeman in Australia. The first minyan, and burial society date from 1817 and the 1828 census records about 100 Jews in New South Wales and 50 in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). In the 1830s Jews arrived in increasing numbers, mainly from England, and by 1841 Jews had also settled in Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia, bringing the total in the continent to 1,183 (0.57% of the whole population). The number of Jews in Australia reached 59,343 by 1961.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austraila
  
Subject
Other:    Holocaust
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica