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Newtown Synagogue 1982

Newtown Synagogue 1982

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Beard, Janet

City of Sydney Archives

Jews

There has been a Jewish community in Sydney since the beginning of European settlement. With the Jewish free settlers who arrived from the 1820s, they built businesses and congregations in Sydney. In the late-nineteenth century, a new group of Jewish immigrants arrived from Eastern Europe, fleeing pogroms and persecution. Jewish Sydneysiders were active in public life and in business, settling in the eastern and inner western suburbs. The community doubled in size after World War II as immigration increased, and the community developed new educational and cultural organisations as well as a broader range of religious congregations.

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Newtown Synagogue

Orthodox synagogue built for the sizeable Jewish population which had called Newtown home since the 1880s. It was the second suburban Jewish congregation to build its own synagogue in Sydney.

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Newtown

Inner-west suburb which developed along the main road south from Sydney. It became a prosperous shopping district in the late 19th century, and later a working-class and migrant suburb, now gentrified.

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