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| NAME | DETAILS | PUBLICATIONS |
|---|---|---|
| NAME | DETAILS | PUBLICATIONS |
| RUBINSTEIN, Dr Hilary L. |
1946- Historian, author + editor |
Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George (2020) British Naval History The Durham Papers (compiler and editor) (2019) Selections from the Papers of Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham G.C.B. (1763-1845) British Naval HIstory The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (co-author) (2011) Anglo-Jewish History A Time to Keep. The Story of Temple Beth Israel: 1930 to 2005 (co-editor) (2005) Australian Jewish History Trafalgar Captain: Durham of the Defiance (2005) British Naval History The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750 (co-author) (2002) General Jewish History Philosemitism: Admiration and Support in the English-Speaking World for Jews, 1840-1939 (co-author) (1999) Anglo-Jewish History Menders of the Mind: a history of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 1946-96 (co-author), (1996) Australian history The Jews in Australia: A Thematic History Volume One: 1788-1945 (1990) Australian Jewish History Chosen: The Jews in Australia (1987) Australian Jewish History The Jews in Victoria, 1835-1985 (1986) Australian Jewish History The Jews in Victoria, 1835-1985 (1985) (boxed hardback edition) Australian Jewish History Captain Luckless: James, first Duke of Hamilton (1606-49) (1975) British History |
Write Your Story
The program of the Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne.
Both the Lamm Library and Jewish Holocaust Centre Library assist local Jewish writers seeking to publish their memoirs.
The Holocaust Centre helps to publish memoirs written by Holocaust survivors who are directly engaged with the Holocaust Centres as current or past volunteers.
The Lamm Library, through their continuing Makor Write Your Story program, fosters the publication of Jewish non-fiction stories of a vast array of Jewish topics by the Melbourne Jewish community.
| Authors include: |
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| Ajzen, Chaim | Chaim Ajzen Remembers |
| Ajzner, Hania | Hania’s War |
| Altman, Kitia | Memories Of Ordinary People |
| Arnstein, Lenke | Recurring Dreams |
| Barnett,Mel | Arnaff Good f'r a Dalston Boy: An East London Childhood |
| Beckwith, Doreen | Full Circle: The Story of a Chained Woman |
| Benjamin, Sydney A.B. | A Full House |
| Boas, Bernard A. | The Five Books Of Boas |
| Buckner, Ille | Starts and Pauses |
| Censor, Maria | Letters To My Mother |
| Cherny, Sylvia | Who is Sylvia? |
| Cooper, Leo | The Long Road to the Lucky Country |
| Eidelson, Meyer | Books, Tanks and Radios |
| Eisfelder, Horst ‘Peter’ | Chinese Exile: My Years in Shanghai and Nanking |
| Erlanger, Arnold | Choose Life |
| Fabian, Garry | A Look Back Over My Shoulder |
| Fisher, Myra | Cossacks, Cockneys And Colonials |
| Friedmann, Jakob | Reluctant soldier : a Jewish Partisan’s Story |
| Gardner, Helen | My Mother’s Child |
| Ginzburg, George | A Will to Live: Autobiography |
| Goldberg, Paulette | Just Think It Never Happened |
| Goldrei, Naomi | The Champions Of My Childhood |
| Goldstein, Guta | There Will Be Tomorrow |
| Gould, Lucy | Empty Corners |
| Gray, Gary | A Spoonful of Soup: and Other Stories |
| Grinblat, Ian | Nachum Zalman Gurewicz : a life |
| Gust, Itzhak | Such Was Life |
| Haberfeld, Lusia | Lauferin : The Runner Of Birkenau |
| Harari, Mayer | Second Exodus |
| Jawary, Sabiha | Baghdad I Remember |
| Kay, David as told to Ian Grinblat | Tough Kid : Surviving Siberia in Style |
| Korda, Teri | My Dear Andrea And Andris |
| Korn, Henri | Saviours, the Story of a Jewish Altar Boy |
| Kozminsky-Meyerowitz, Mena | Keeping the Promise: Memories of a War Bride from Israel |
| Leperere, Helen | Memoirs And Reflections |
| Mandelbaum, Rae | Echoes From The Past: The Rifka Norman Story T |
| Marks, Eva | A Patchwork Life |
| Max, Helen | Searching For Yesterday: a Photographic Essay about My Mother, a Holocaust Sorvivor |
| Philips, Hartog (Harry) | Just Call Me Harry: Growing Up in A Dutch Village |
| Randles, Shirley | No Locked Doors |
| Reisman, Kathy | More Than Nine Lives |
| Robin, Moshe and Stefa | Stepping Into Life |
| Rosenberg, Elfie | Serry And Me: Kindertransport and Beyond |
| Rosner, Maurie | The Bell Tolls For Thee and Other Short Stories |
| Roth, Marianne | An Intricate Collage |
| Rubin, Wolf | Wolf: Surviving By Art |
| Schimmel, Marilyn | Pola’s Story |
| Schreiber, Vera | The Porcelain Doll |
| Schwartz, Schmul | Under Red Skies |
| Schwarz, Tess | The First Forty Families: Bringing My Family Tree and Forest to Life |
| Searle, Freda | Memory’s Wings And Apron Strings |
| Skall, Lily | My Story |
| Stern, Max | My Stamp on Life |
| van Rijsdijk, Mink | The Shoes of a Foundling |
| Wroby, Godel | My Battle for Survival |
| Zylberman, Halina | Swimming Under Water |
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Thank you to those readers who contributed suggestions, corrected links and love this database!Special special thanks go to David Ades, author of "Mapping the World" and a great friend of this project.
