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Australian genesis : Jewish convicts and settlers, 1788-1850 / J. S. Levi, G. F. J. Bergman.
LIBRA DS135.A88 L4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levi, John S., 1934-
- Bergman, G. F. J. (George F. J.), 1900- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Australia--History.
- Jews.
- Prisoners--Australia.
- Prisoners.
- Exiles--Australia.
- Exiles.
- History.
- Australia.
- Jewish criminals.
- Levi, John S., 1934- (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Bergman, G. F. J. (George F. J.), 1900- (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Caplan, Leslie (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Caplan, Sophie (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Local Subjects:
- Levi, John S., 1934- (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Bergman, G. F. J. (George F. J.), 1900- (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Caplan, Leslie (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Caplan, Sophie (autograph) (Potok Collection copy).
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (inscription) (Potok Collection copy
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Adelaide] : Rigby [Limited], [1974]
- Contents:
- Book One. The Early Years: The outcasts; The first fleet; The first lady; A policeman's lot; The honest Jew of Parramatta; The man they couldn't hang; "Izzi, The Noted Trap Man"; The promised land
- Book Two. Colonial Jewish Portraits: The redemption of Sydney Sam; "Enter Barney!"; Fagin in Australia; The "Jewboy Bushranger" and family; The lost sheep; Judah's voice; Judah's face
- Book Three. The Creation of the Communities: Emigration, or a trip to the Antipodes; The birth of the synagogue; Jews of the outback; Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania); The Samsons of Swan River; South Australia; The Jews of Melbourne; The feared outpost prisons; Ophir.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- "Published with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australian Council for the Arts."
- "First published 1974."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autographs of J. S. Levi and G. F. J. Bergman.
- Potok Collection copy inscribed "For Dr. Chaim Potok, as a momento of your visit to the North Shore Synagogue and to Sydney. With gratitude for spending an evening with us. Leslie and Sophie Caplan on behalf of the North Shore Synagogue. Sydney, 11th March 1978".
- Potok Collection copy has ms correction on p. 344.
- Potok Collection copy has label of The House of Books, 23 Wandella Ave., Roseville.
- ISBN:
- 0851798101
- OCLC:
- 1257660
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