Writing Jewish Carlton
TitleWriting Jewish Carlton
Author
Call numberS994.004924/001
Object number03731waz
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Year of publication
2017
Dimensionspp 477-490
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from 'The Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society' Vol. XXIII, Part 3, 2017, pp 477-490
Description
There were Jews in Carlton from the 1870s when the suburb was peopled by traders, pawnbrokers, tailors, carpenters and hawkers most of whom came from Germany, Eastern Europe and Russia. They comprised a number of Yiddish -speakers, secular Jews and orthodox Jews. Various people who wrote about Carlton are mentioned