EPISODE · Aug 13, 2021
EP 40: Jewish Convicts in Australia
from Podcast Jüdische Geschichte · host Julia Schneidawind
This is the first of two episodes on Jews in Australia. Part one sheds light on the fate of Jewish convicts transported to the country in the 18th and 19th centuries. In her interview with Dr. Sue Silberberg (University of Melbourne), Julia Schneidawind (LMU) asks about the circumstances leading to banishment, what obstacles and difficulties the prisoners had to deal with, and what life was like for Jewish prisoners in the penal colony of Australia.
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This is the first of two episodes on Jews in Australia. Part one sheds light on the fate of Jewish convicts transported to the country in the 18th and 19th centuries. In her interview with Dr. Sue Silberberg (University of Melbourne), Julia Schneidawind (LMU) asks about the circumstances leading to banishment, what obstacles and difficulties the prisoners had to deal with, and what life was like for Jewish prisoners in the penal colony of Australia.
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