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- Title
The German Rabbinate Abroad - Australia.
- Authors
Apple, Raymond
- Abstract
For a long period Australia was a British colonial offshoot and its Jewish community followed the dictates of the Chief Rabbi of Britain, Nathan Marcus Adler, who, with his son and successor Hermann Adler, brought the German rabbinic outlook to his religious leadership. Over the decades many Australian ministers (not all were fully qualified rabbis) were German or trained in the German rabbinic style, though there was often an anti-German reaction on the part of Eastern European rabbis and laymen. Though many of the ministers were quintessentially British, they were mostly trained under German Jewish scholars at Jews' College in London and displayed the German synthesis of Jewish and Western culture. Since the Second World War Australian Jewry has changed radically both as a result of post-Holocaust immigration and because of the growing diversity of the community. There is a strong Eastern European flavour and the British chief rabbinate is no longer the community's automatic authority.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; RABBIS; GERMAN refugees; IMPERIALISM; ANTI-German boycotts; EMIGRATION &; immigration; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945
- Publication
European Judaism, 2012, Vol 45, Issue 2, p21
- ISSN
0014-3006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ej.2012.45.02.04