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Jewish Immigration Australia
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| The Jewish people have been part of Australian history since 1788 when at least eight Jewish convicts came on the First Fleet. These were followed by more than a thousand more convicts during the next 60 years.
Jewish free settlers started arriving in Australia as early as the 1820s. By 2001 it is estimated there just under 85,000 Jews in living Australia. The Australian Government’s National Archives contains a wealth of information on Jewish Immigration to Australia in a paper entitled Safe Haven: Records of the Jewish Experience in Australia Today, 80 percent of Jews live in Melbourne and Sydney. Melbourne is still considered the more religious of the two cities, with about 80 percent of its Jews declaring themselves traditional. Nonetheless, Sydney boasts numerous synagogues and Jewish organisations. Overall, there are 81 synagogues and 18 day schools in Australia, and several Jewish newspapers and periodicals. More than 50 percent of Jewish students are enrolled in Jewish schools, which is the highest rate anywhere in the world. In Melbourne, the Jewish community is centred in St Kilda. Sydney has a large Jewish communities in Bondi and the North Shore. Sydney has the The recently built Museum of Australian Jewish History and the Holocaust which is located in Darlinghurst. The Museum includes exhibits on the Jewish immigration to Australia by convicts who founded Sydney’s Jewish community, and a recreation of George Street in central Sydney where a number of Jewish businesses were located in the mid-1800s. Australia Immigration can be a complicated process so we recommend you get professional advice. We are not migration agents. Information on this site is only of a general nature, and if you need help with Visas or Immigration we suggest you speak to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship
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