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This is in a new history of Aus, written by an academic.
There were Jewish quotas. There were interviews so that immigration officers could make sure that no Jews were included in the 170,000 DPs. "The Holocaust" was not yet a thing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Sue Silberg, PHA (Vic and Tas), shares some research about the cosmopolitan life of Jewish traders, and later politicians, in the tropics. The Australian colonial project is clear here with discussion about the Polynesian Company, a poor colony's Dutch East India Company.

#history #traders
October 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Weida Chen shared some findings from his thesis about Greeks in NT, with particular concentration on military men.

#history #immigration #research
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM