Life and death of a revolution Sydney Festival Theatre Alexandra Kollontai
THIS ABSORBING and always intensely interesting, sometimes deeply moving one-perB son show, devised and…
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Obituaries & funerals, 1993
16 stories in Sydney's papers
Death of prolific writer Nancy Keesing
NANCY KEESING, one of Australia’s most well-known writers and literary critics, died this week at the age of 69. Ms Keesing, who wrote Lily on the Dustbin: Slang of Australian women and families and co-authored Australian Bush Ballads,…
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FORMER Sydney-based Zionist Federation of Australia and New Zealand (ZFA) president Bernard Ferster died on Saturday. He was 83…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Individualistic style OBITUARY Nathan Milstein 1904-1993
THE VIOLIN has always been regarded as a “Jewish” instrument and it’s not hard to see why. From the 19th century…
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Rabbi Apple said through his lifetime Mr Falk seemed to treat his business as his hobby and the community as his work. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wife of communal pioneer dies at 98 OBITUARY
SASHA Cypora Freilich — wife of late communal pioneer Max Freilich —…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →bereavements Death of film pioneer
AUSTRALIAN film and hotel pioneer and former Blue Mountains City mayor Leslie Come died last week. He was 72…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Popular composer dies Obituary
COMPOSER and playwright Albert Arlen, best known for setting the colourful vernacular of CJ. Dennis’ A Sentimental Bloke…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →bereavements Famed “artist of the suburbs” dies at 95 OBITUARY
SWISS-born Jewish painter and artist Sail Herman, best known for his depiction of Inner Sydney, died last weekend at the age of 95…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →bereavements Famed Jewish scholar dies at 90 OBITUARY
New York: THOUSANDS of students and disciples gathered in Boston on Sunday to pay respect to Rabbi Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →How a school copes with tragedy The tragic death of Rebecca Hayne has shown how well Masada College coped with trauma. Lani Zelazne put this report together
WHEN the hearse carrying Rebecca Hayne’s coffin slid silently into the entrance of Masada College High School last week, virtually every…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Back to the future The crisis that erupted earlier this year over the conflicting claims to represent Australian Jewry made by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia has roots going back well over a decade. The two items reproduced on this page appeared in the Australian Jewish News over 12 years ago, in March and April 1981, and they clearly illustrate the “battle lines” that were laid down then and remain in place to this day. The first (right) is a report on the “action plan” tabled at a ZFA Executive meeting in Melbourne by the then president of the State Zionist Council of Victoria, Mr Mark Leibler. The second (below) is a letter in response to that plan, signed by the late Mr Arnold Bloch and Mr Nathan Jacobson. Both men had served as executive officers of both the ECAJ and the ZFA
AT A TIME when Israel and Zionism are under attack... one hesitates long before taking public issue with the State Zionist Council…
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CANBERRA community benefactor Harold Pearlman died recently. With his late wife Ette, he was a major benefactor of the National…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →news Death of community founding father
QUEENSLAND Jewish community leader David Solomon, OAM, died in Brisbane on July 21. He was 80 years old…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →bereavements Hong Kong’s Jewish taipan dies at 94 OBITUARY
LORD Kadoorie, who died in Hong Kong recently, aged 94, was a leading taipan, or top businessman, and the first Hong Kong-born person to be created a life peer…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Death of A Neapolitan Mathematician Italy 1992; dir: Mario Martone: dist: AFI Distribution; rt: 108 mins
For his first film, stage director Mario Martone has taken a difficult subject and paid his audience tee compliment of assuming they can handle it. Even the drily factual title avoids any suggestion…
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