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ABRAMI, Janka |
1921-1993 Melbourne writer, Holocaust survivor Photo |
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ABRAMOVICH, Dvir |
1971- Melbourne academic + writer |
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ADES, David |
1956- Sydney-based poet |
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ADLER, Jacques |
1927- |
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ADLER, Louise |
1954- |
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AFTERMAN, Allen |
1941-1992 American-born poet + legal academic. Lived in Australia 1967-1981 |
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AJZENBUD, Moshe |
1920-2020 |
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ALEXANDER, Goldie |
1936-2020 Melbourne author |
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Ali BERG |
Melbourne Co-authour with Michelle Kalus |
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AMSTERDAM, Steven |
1966- |
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APPLE, Rabbi Raymond |
1935-2024 |
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ARKWRIGHT, Ken |
1929- Perth author |
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ARMSTRONG, Diane |
1939- |
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ATKINSON, Meera |
Sydney writer Read more |
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ATLAS, Zygfryd |
1920- |
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BAKER, Mark Raphael |
1959-2023 |
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BAVATI, Robyn |
Melbourne writer |
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BEARMAN, Margaret |
1966- Melbourne writer |
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BELLAMY, Ros |
Writer, editor and researcher |
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BENJAMIN, Elana |
Sydney author |
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BEN-MOSHE, Danny |
Melbourne academic, writer + filmmaker |
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BEN-MOSHE, Ros |
Melbourne lecturer + writer |
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BENNETT, Samuel (Shmuel |
1919- Melbourne Yiddish writer + columnist |
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BENTEL, Erica |
Perth writer |
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BERGNER, Herz |
1907-1970 |
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BESSER, Nathan |
1981- Sydney writer |
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BIDERMAN, Abraham |
1924- Melbourne writer |
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BIRMAN, Lisa |
Melbourne poet + novelist, lives in Colorado + Australia |
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BLACK, Ben |
Pseudonym |
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BLAY, Anna Rosner |
1947- Melbourne writer |
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BLAY, Danny Rosner |
1968- Melbourne author |
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BLINT, Woolf |
1914- |
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BLOCH, Felicity |
Melbourne writer |
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BLOOM, Norma |
1924- Born in Melbourne, since 1960 in Hobart. |
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BOAS, Bernard |
1911-2011 Melbourne writer + critic |
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BRASCH, Rabbi Dr R |
1912-2004 |
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BRETT, Doris |
1950- Melbourne writer + poet |
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BRETT, Lily |
1946- New York-based writer + poet (Melbourne originally) |
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BROOK, Steve |
1934-2014 |
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BROUS, Raphael |
1982- |
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BROWNE, Ashley |
1965- Melbourne writer + editor |
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BUCKRICH, Judith Raphael |
1950- Melbourne writer + journalist |
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BURSTIN, Hinde Ena |
Melbourne academic + writer |
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CASTAN, Melissa |
Melbourne academic + writer |
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CELERMAJER, Danielle |
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CIDDOR, Anna |
1957- Melbourne children's author |
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COHEN, Anna |
Sydney author, psychologist |
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COHEN, Bernard |
1963- Sydney writer |
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COHEN, David Phillip |
1967- Brisbane author |
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COHEN, Trevor |
1938- Melbourne author Mary MacKillop’s Jewish connection |
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COLLINS, Alan |
1928-2008 Melbourne writer |
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COLLINS, Ros |
1930- Melbourne writer |
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CONWAY, Deborah |
1959- Singer, songwriter, author |
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COOKE, Steven |
Melbourne author |
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COOPER, Leo |
1922- Melbourne writer |
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COWEN, Shimon David |
1951 Melbourne author |
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CURZON, David |
1941- New-York based poet + editor |
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CYKIERT, Avraham |
1926-2009 Melbourne writer + Yiddish broadcaster |
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DANNON, Joanne |
Melbourne writer |
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DAPIN, Mark |
1963- Sydney author |
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DAVIS, Peter |
1954-2008 Melbourne writer |
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DOWSE, Sara |
1938- Canberra writer |
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DREYFUS, Kay |
1942- Melbourne writer + musicologist |
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DUBAND, Julian |
1963- Melbourne musician, composer, teacher + writer |
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ELISHA, Ron |
1951- Melbourne Playwright |
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ELLIOTT-KLEERKOPER, Marietta |
1937-2019 Melbourne poet |
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EMANUEL, Lisa |
Sydney writer |
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ENCEL, Diana |
1928-2013 Sydney author |
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ENCEL, Sol |
1925- 2010 Sydney Sociologist + writer |
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ENGELMAN, Matylda |
1914- Melbourne writer |
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EPSTEIN, Anna |
1947 |
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EPSTEIN, Jan |
Melbourne film writer + critic |
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EPSTEIN, Raphael |
Melbourne journalist, broadcaster + writer |
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ERLICH, Rita |
1947- Melbourne journalist + food writer |
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FACTOR, June |
1936- Melbourne writer |
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FAGENBLAT, Michael |
Melbourne academic now based in Israel |
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FALK, Barbara |
1910-2008 Melbourne academic & writer |
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FEIN, Yvonne |
1953- Melbourne writer |
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FELDSTEIN, Jack |
Scriptwriter originally Adelaide currently New York |
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FENIGER, Saba |
1924-2017 Melbourne writer |
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FIENBERG, Anna |
1956- English-born Sydney writer |
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FIENBERG, Barbara | |||
FINCHLEY (FREILICH), David |
1946- |
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FINKEL, Alan |
1953- Australia's Chief Scientist |
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FINKEL, Elizabeth |
1957- |
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FREADMAN, Richard |
1951- Melbourne academic + writer |
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FREEMAN, Howard (ed) |
1940-2022 Melbourne president, Australian Jewish Historical Society |
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FREIBERG, Freda |
1933-2024 Independent film scholar |
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FREIMAN, Marcelle |
1951- Sydney writer |
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FRIEZE, Donna-Lee |
Melbourne author |
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FRYBORT, Evelyn |
1947- Sydney - Editor |
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FRYDENBERG, Erica |
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FRYDMAN, Gloria |
1943- |
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GARDNER, Helen |
1939- Melbourne writer |
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GARDNER, Paul |
Faculty of Education, Monash University for 36 years Bequest to Monash University About his book |
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GAUDRON, Alfred W. |
1947- Sydney poet |
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GAWENDA, Michael |
Melbourne Journalist + author |
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GELBACH, Igor |
1943- Melbourne writer |
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GENZIUK, Simi |
Melbourne based children’s author |
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GETTLER, Leon |
1958- Melbourne journalist & writer |
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GINGOLD, Robert |
1949- |
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GLASMAN, Eli |
Melbourne writer |
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GLAS-WIENER, Sheva |
1916- |
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GOLD, Alan |
1945- Sydney author |
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GOLDBERG, Ashley |
Melbourne based fiction writer Read more |
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GOLDBLOOM, Goldie |
1964- Writer, editor, teacher Born in Perth |
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GOLDBLOOM, Sandra |
1943- |
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GOLDENBERG, Howard |
1946- Melbourne writer |
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GOLDHAR, Pinchas |
1901-1947 Melbourne Yiddish writer |
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GOLDSCHLAGER, Ron |
Melbourne author |
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GOLDSMITH, Andrea |
1950- Melbourne author |
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GOLVAN, Colin |
1955- Melbourne writer |
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GONSKI, David |
1953- Sydney business leader + writer |
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GOUCH, Gabrielle |
Sydney writer |
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GOULD, Dita |
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GOULD, Lucy |
1940- |
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GRAY, Gary |
1926- Melbourne short-story writer |
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GREEN, John M |
1953 - |
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GREENBERG, Nicki |
1974- Melbourne comic artist + Illustrator |
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GREY-SMITH, Naama (Amram) |
Perth writer |
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GRINBLAT, Kathy |
1948- Melbourne writer born in Paris |
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GROSS, Dick |
1954- Melbourne writer |
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GUNZBURG, Daniel Isaac |
1968- Perth Poet + songwriter Member of the band The Halcyon Days |
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HALASZ, George |
1949- Melbourne writer + psychiatrist |
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HARARI, Fiona |
Sydney journalist & writer (originally Melbourne) |
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HELFGOTT, Louise |
1959- Mandurah, Western Australian writer, playwright and poet |
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HOFFMANN, Catherine |
1948- |
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HOLKNER, Jean |
1926-2004 |
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HUPPERT, Michele |
1939 Melbourne Writer |
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INDYK, Ivor |
1949- Sydney literary academic, editor + publisher |
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JACOB, Angelica |
1958- Sydney writer |
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JACOBSON, Anna |
1987- Brisbane artist & poet |
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JAFFE, Meredith | |||
JAWARY, Nita |
Melbourne artist + author |
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JOEL, Alexandra |
1953- Sydney authour and editor |
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JUBAL, Benjamin Newman |
1902-1961 |
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JUCHAU, Mireille |
1969- Sydney writer |
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KAMINSKY, Leah |
1959- Melbourne doctor + writer |
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KAMLER, Barbara |
Melbourne-based poet + academic |
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KAPLAN, Dalit |
Melbourne-based writer + storyteller Read more |
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KARIMI, Kooshyar |
1968- Melbourne doctor + writer |
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KARPIN, Matthew |
1959- |
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KATZ, Danny |
Melbourne writer + columnist |
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KATZ, Lally |
1978- Melbourne playright |
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KEESING, Nancy |
1923-1993 Sydney author |
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KHAZAM, Sandra |
1968- Melbourne author |
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KIPPEN, Chilli |
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KIRSTEN, Karen |
US based Australian writer (Melbourne) Read more |
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KOFMAN, Lee |
1973- Melbourne author |
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KOHN, Peter |
1955- Melbourne writer |
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KOHN, Rachael |
1953- Sydney writer & broadcaster |
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KOMESAROFF, Michael |
1945- Melbourne author |
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KORN, Neer |
1966- Sydney based social researcher and writer |
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KOVAL, Ramona |
1954- |
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KRAMER, Tom |
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KRANZ, Jaye |
Melbourne based short story + non-fiction writer |
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KRASNOSTEIN, Sarah |
Non-fiction writer Read more Read more |
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KRAUS, Paul |
1944- Sydney poet |
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KROUK, Nora |
1920- Sydney poet |
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KUNA, Miriam |
Died 2017 Melbourne author |
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LANDSMAN, Lexi |
Sydney writer Listen |
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LAVI, Tali |
Melbourne based writer, critic + interviewer |
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LAZAR, Joel | |||
LAZAR, John |
1801-1879 Sydney + Adelaide |
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LEIGHTON, Harry |
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LESER, David |
1956- Byron Bay journalist + author |
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LEVI, Dr. John |
1934- |
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LEVY, Barry |
Brisbane author (originally Johannesburg) |
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LEW, Dr Henry (Harry) R. |
1948- Melbourne author |
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LEWIN, Zwi |
1934- Melbourne author |
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LEWITT, Maria |
1924-2020 |
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LIBERMAN, Cassie | |||
LIBERMAN, Karen |
Melbourne authour + photographer |
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LIBERMAN, Serge |
1942-2017 Melbourne doctor & author |
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LICHTENSTEIN, Bronwen |
1947- Alt. name Sarah Ebenor |
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LICHTER, Ida |
1947- |
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LIPSKI, Sam |
Melbourne based Journalist + Editor Speaker profile |
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LURIE, Morris |
1938- 2014 Melbourne writer |
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MANE, Gilbert |
Sydney writer |
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MANN, Leon |
1937- Melbourne academic & author |
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MARCUSON, Steven |
1959- Perth author |
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MARGO, Jill |
1954- |
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MARGOLIN ROYAL, Linda |
1962- Sydney author, historical Fiction |
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MARIN, Bernard |
1950- Melbourne writer Click here to buy Bernard Marin books |
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MARKS, Harry |
1923-1977 |
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MARKS, Stan |
1929- Melbourne writer |
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MARKUS, Andrew |
Melbourne academic + writer |
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MARLOW, David |
1962- Melbourne author |
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MARTIN, David |
1915-1997 |
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MAX, Helen |
Melbourne writer |
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MEHLMAN, Chaim |
Melbourne Writer + Video Producer |
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MELTZER, Gloria |
Nimbin, NSW writer |
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Michelle KALUS |
Melbourne Co-authour with Ali Berg |
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MILLER, Deborah Masel |
1957-2011 |
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MILLINGEN, Dalia |
1922-2014 Melbourne author (dec.) |
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MOSHINSKY, Romy |
1970- Melbourne-based writer, editor + publisher. Co-founder of Real Publishing. |
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MOSHINSKY, Sam |
1934- Melbourne writer |
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MOUSTAFINE, Mara |
1952- Sydney writer |
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MYER, Rod |
1955- Melbourne writer |
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NASEBY, Eileen |
1943- |
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NAYMAN, Michele | |||
OLIVER, Isabel Esther |
1965 - Works in remote Aboriginal Lands Schools in NT + WA |
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PALTI, Uri |
1939- Melbourne author |
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PEARLMAN, Jonathan |
Sydney based writer + editor |
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PERLMAN, Elliot |
1964- Melbourne author |
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PERLSTONE, Phyllis |
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PILA, Ron |
1965 Melbourne writer |
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PIZER, Marjorie |
1920-2016 Sydney poet |
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POLACK, Gillian |
1961- Canberra academic & writer |
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POLLAK, Cynthia |
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PRESSER, BRAM |
1976- Melbourne author |
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PRICE, Margaret |
Broken Hill author |
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PRINCE, Frances |
1958- Writer - Melbourne + Jerusalem |
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RAFAEL, Rivqa |
Sydney Editor & Writer |
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RAVER, Miki |
1945- |
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REICH, Joe |
1940- |
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REITER, David |
1947- Brisbane award-winning writer + publisher |
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RICHTER, Anne |
Asian arts expert |
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RIEMER, Andrew |
1936- |
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ROSENBERG, Jacob |
1922-2008 Melbourne author |
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ROSENTHAL, Lesley Sharon |
1953- Melbourne writer, originally from England |
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ROSS, Dina |
Melbourne playwright |
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RUBENSTEIN, Kim |
1965- Academic + writer |
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RUBIN, Halina |
1939- Melbourne author |
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RUBINSTEIN, Dr Hilary L. |
1946- Historian, author + editor |
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RUTLAND, Suzanne |
1946- Academic + writer |
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SACKVILLE, Kerri |
Sydney writer & columnist |
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SAFRAN, John |
1972- |
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SAFRANSKY, Rosa |
1948- |
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SCHWARTZ, Baba |
1927-2017 Melbourne writer |
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SCHWARZ, Michelle |
1966- Melbourne writer |
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SEBBAN, Shira |
1963- Sydney writer + migration agent for refugees |
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SEMEL, Nava |
1954-2017 Israeli author (d) |
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SHAIAK, Gedaliah |
1905-1983 Born in Poland, arrived in Australia 1949 |
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SHARAFSKI, Ben |
Israel-Australian writer based in Sydney |
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SHAVITSKY, Ziva |
Melbourne Academic + writer |
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SHEFTALOVICH, Zoya |
Sydney journalist |
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SHOLL, Natasha |
Melbourne freelance writer + author |
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SINGER, Ivan |
1922-2008 |
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SINGER, Peter |
1946- Philosopher + writer |
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SINGER, Renata |
1947- |
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SKOVRON, Alex |
1948- Melbourne poet |
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SLONIM, Eva |
1931- Melbourne writer |
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SPRING, Joseph |
1927- |
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SPUT-STERN, Anya |
1921- Melbourne author |
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STEIN, Darren |
1973- Sydney artist, writer + poet |
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STONE, Deborah |
Melbourne journalist + editor |
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STONE, Nina (ed) |
1935- |
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STRUM, Andrew |
Melbourne editor |
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SUGARMAN, Nancy |
Melbourne based ESL teacher + writer |
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SUTTNER, Immanuel |
Sydney poet |
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SVED, Miriam |
Melbourne-based writer |
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SWAN, Norman |
1953- |
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SZEGO, Julie |
Melbourne writer |
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TAFT, Margaret |
1953 - Melbourne writer |
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TAKAC, Esther |
Melbourne psychologist + writer |
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TEDESCHI, Mark |
1952- Sydney barrister, photographer + authour |
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TEDESCHI, Simon |
1981- Sydney classical pianist + writer |
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TORSH, Daniela |
1946- Sydney writer |
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TRAJSTMAN, Albert |
1946- Melbourne author |
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TROPE, Nicole |
Sydney author |
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TUMARKIN, Maria |
1974- Melbourne writer |
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ULMAN, VIvienne |
1948- Melbourne writer |
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UNGLIK, Ari |
Melbourne writer |
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VAJDA, Frank |
1935- Melbourne neurologist & writer |
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VALENT, Dani |
Melbourne cooking writer |
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VALENT, Paul |
1938- Melbourne psychiatrist & writer |
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VARGA, Susan |
1943- Sydney writer |
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VEROLME, Hetty |
1930- Perth-based writer |
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VERSTANDIG, Mark |
1912-2002 |
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VIDAL, Sara |
1945 Melbourne author |
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WATEN, Judah |
1911-1985 Melbourne writer |
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WELDON, Andrew |
1998- Melbourne cartoonist |
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WEYLAND, Marcel |
1927- Sydney writer Read more |
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WOLSKI, Nathan |
Read more Melbourne academic + writer |
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WRIGHT, Clare |
1969- Melbourne Historian |
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WYNHAUSEN, Elisabeth |
1946-2013 Melbourne writer |
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ZABLE, Arnold |
1947- Melbourne writer |
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ZAIL, Suzy |
1966- Melbourne author |
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ZASLAVSKY, Alice |
Melbourne food writer Read more Read more |
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ZAWATZKY, Joan |
Melbourne writer |
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ZOHAR, Seree |
Australian born poet based in Israel |
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ZUCKERMAN, Ghil'ad |
1971- Adelaide based academic & writer |
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ZWI, Rose |
1928-2018 |
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ZWICKY, Fay |
1933- |
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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 |
THANK YOU
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.
