Tongue ties: the emergence of the Anglophone Jewish diaspora in the mid-nineteenth century *.

From: American Jewish History | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Mendelsohn, Adam | Copyright information

Neither Rebecca Gratz nor Isaac Leeser ever traveled to the dusty town of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. But their ideas did. (1) Geelong was certainly no center of Australian Jewish life: the community mushroomed from 11 Jews in 1848 to 128 Jews in 1861 before beginning a steady decline. (2) Although a congregation began meeting for worship in 1849, and built a temporary synagogue in 1854, there was only intermittent service from a hazan and no regular supply of kosher meat. A to...

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