A History Month event.

Join author, Dr Sue Silberberg in conversation with Dr Andrew Lemon about Sue’s book, A Networked Community (Melbourne University Publishing).

Melbourne’s first colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish emancipist Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at the foundation of colonisation. In Victoria, as in the other new Australian colonies, there were no civil or political restrictions on the Jewish community. As with other Jewish communities in the large centres of the world, they responded to the freedoms of an emancipated society, while the political and social environment of a new city such as Melbourne provided a unique set of opportunities.

Unlike in other cities where Jewish property ownership was restricted, here Jews could live and work where they chose, becoming, from the first land sales, investors in property. Subsequently as the city expanded, as developers and builders they influenced the formation of the urban fabric, while their intellectual and economic connections brought new political and intellectual ideas and networks to the colonial experience.

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