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ABRAMI, Janka

1921-1993
Melbourne writer (deceased)
'Zat Izz Apples, Sir' (1986)
ABRAMOVICH, Dvir 1971-

Melbourne academic and writer
Post-Holocaust Identity and Unresolved Tension in Modern-day Israel: Savyon Liebrecht's Apples from the Desert

Hebrew Classics: A Journey Through Israel's Timeless Fiction and Poetry (Israel: Society, Culture, and History)
Back to the Future: Israeli Literature of the 1980s and 1990s
ADES, David 1956- Adelaide poet
ADLER, Jacques

Melbourne academic and historian
The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution: Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944 (Studies in Jewish History)

ADLER, Louise 1954- Melbourne publisher and editor
The Politics Of Linking Schools And Social Services
AFTERMAN, Allen 1941-1992 American-born poet and legal academic (deceased)
Lived in Australia 1967-1981
Kabbalah and Consciousness and the Poetry of Allen Afterman (2005)
The maze rose: Poems 1970-73 (The Sun poetry series)
AJZENBUD, Moshe 1920- Melbourne Yiddish writer
Alein in Gezeml, Lonely in a Crowd. Melbourne, 1970.
Gelebt Hinter Kratn, Lived Behind Bars. Buenos Aires (Yidbuch) 1956.
Niesvizher Yidn. Niesvizh's Jews. Short stories, Melbourne, 1965.
Nusach Y. Rapoport. Y. Rapoport's Style. Melbourne, 1967.
Yugneleche Blondzenishn. Dilemmas of Youth. Melbourne, 1973.
The Commissar Took Care.Translated by Leah Ajzenbud. Melbourne (Globe Press), 1986.
Latest book published 2006 (in Yiddish)
Pnina, un andereh dertzeilungen
(Pnina, and other stories)
ALEXANDER,Goldie 1936- Melbourne writer
Body and Soul
An Adult/ Young Adult novel set in 1938

Unjust Desserts - An adult murder/mystery

My Story: Surviving Sydney Cove
A diary telling of the hardships of the First Fleet
Dessi's Romance
ARMSTRONG, Diane 1939- Sydney writer and journalist
The Voyage of their Life (2001)
Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations (2001)
Winter Journey
Empire Day (2012)

ATLAS, Zygfryd

1920- Just One Life (1999)
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BAKER, Mark Raphael 1959- Melbourne writer and academic
The Fiftieth Gate (1997)
History on the Edge (Ed)
 
BAVATI, Robyn more Melbourne writer
Dancing in the Dark (2010)
    Pirouette (2014)
BEARMAN, Margaret 1966- Melbourne writer
Above the Water (2002)
BENNETT, Samuel Melbourne Yiddish writer and columnist
Chronicles of a Life (1999)
BERGNER, Herz

1907-1970

 

Melbourne Yiddish writer (deceased)
Between Sea and Sky (1946)
Light and Shadow (1960)
(Also other titles in Yiddish)
BIDERMAN, Abraham 1924- Melbourne writer
The World of My Past (1994)
Abraham H. Biderman's autobiography was self published in a small print run, and won two major Australian book awards: The Biography Prize and the Banjo Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
BLACK, Ben Breaking Ranks – Turbulent Travels in the Promised Land (2001)
BLAY, Anna Rosner 1947- Melbourne writer
Sister, Sister (1998)
The story of two sisters who survived the concentration camps.
Not Paradise (2004)
BLINT, Wolf By Jeep to Freedom (1994)
BLOCH, Felicity

Melbourne writer and critic
Felicity Bloch's
Review of Mara Moustafine's Secrets and Spies

BOAS, Bernard 1911-2011

Melbourne writer and critic
It's Time to Rewrite the Bible (1994)

The Five Books of Boas
BRASCH, Rabbi Dr R 1912-
2004
Sydney Rabbi and writer (deceased)
Star of David
BRETT, Doris 1950-

Melbourne writer and poet
Annie Stories: A Special Kind of Storytelling (1988)

In the Constellation of the Crab
More Annie Stories: Therapeutic Storytelling Techniques (1992)
Looking for Unicorns (1992)
Eating the Underworld  (2001)
The Twelfth Raven: A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery (2014)
BRETT, Lily 1946- New York-based writer and poet
The Auschwitz Poems (1986)
Poland and Other Poems (1987)
After the War: Poems (1990)
Things Could Be Worse (1990)
What God Wants (1991)
Unintended Consequences (1992)
In Her Strapless Dresses (1994)
Just Like That (1994)
In Full View (1997)
Mud in My Tears: Essays (1997)
Too Many Men: A Novel (2002)
Between Mexico and Poland (2002)
New York (2004)
Uncomfortably Close: A Novel (2007)
You Gotta Have Balls (2007)
Lola Bensky  (2013)
BROOK, Steve 1934- Melbourne writer
But I Digress: A Life in London, Sydney, Melbourne and Warsaw
BROUS, Raphael 1982- I am Max Lamm
BUCKRICH, Judith Raphael 1950- Melbourne writer and journalist
George Turner: A Life
The Montefiore Homes: 150 Years of Care (1998)
Collins Street: The Story of Australia's Premier Street (2005)
BURSTIN, Hinde Ena   Melbourne academic and writer
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COHEN, Bernard 1963- Sydney writer
Tourism (1992)
Paul Needs Specs (1993)
Snowdome (1998)
The Blindman's Hat (1997)
    Hardly Beach Weather (2002)
    The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies (2013)
COLLINS, Alan 1928-2008 Melbourne writer
The Boys from Bondi (1987)
Going Home (1993)
Joshua (1995)
Alva's Boy (2008 posthumous)
COOPER, Leo Melbourne writer
In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle:
The Poles, the Holocaust and beyond (2001)
CURZON, David 1941- New-York based poet and editor
Modern poems on the Bible: An anthology  (1994)
View From Jacobs Ladder: One Hundred Midrashim  (1996)
CYKIERT, Avraham 1926-
2009
Melbourne writer and Yiddish broadcaster
Biographical details

The Emperor of the Ghetto is a one-man play which deals with Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the Jewish Leader of the Ghetto of Lodz and his dilemmas in dealing with the Nazis.

It was first performed at the Caulfield Arts Centre in 1993, followed by seasons at the George Fairfax Studio (Victorian Arts Centre), St Martin's, the Adelaide Fringe and Tasmania as well as performances in over seventy schools in Victoria and South Australia.

LETTER FROM POLAND
Death Camp Less Traveled: Silent Screams of Belzec

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DOWSE, Sara 1938-

Canberra writer
Biographical details

Silver City (1985)

West Block : The Hidden World of Canberra`s Mandarins (1982)
DREYFUS, Kay   Melbourne writer and musicologist
    Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of Australia's All-girl Bands and Orchestras to the End of the Second World War  (1999)
    Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators (2013)
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ELISHA, Ron 1951-

Melbourne Playwright
Choice

In Duty Bound (1983)

Einstein (1986)

Two (1987)
Safe House (1989)
Esterhaz (1990)
The Goldberg Variations (2000)
Pax Americana
The Levine Comedy
ELLIOTT, Marietta 1937- Melbourne poet
ENCEL, Sol 1925-
2010
Sydney Sociologist and writer
Obituary
Biographical information
Articles:
"Public Perceptions of the Public Administrator",
Australian Journal of Public Administration, XL (3),
September: 187-200. Daniel, Ann and Encel, Sol (1981)
Books
Out of the Doll’s House: Women in the Public Sphere.
(with Dorothy Campbell)  (1991)
Outlawing age discrimination: "Foreign lessons, UK choices" (2001)
Continuity, Commitment, and Survival: Jewish Communities in the Diaspora (2003)
ENGELMAN, Matylda 1914- Melbourne writer
Journey Without End
: an autobiography (1977)
The End of the Journey: concluding Journey without end, an autobiography  (1978)
EPSTEIN, Jan more Melbourne film writer and critic
Film writer, reviewer:
"Cinema Papers", "Australian Jewish News", ABC ("filmic representation of history" forum)

Articles
1992. 'Australian Films at Cannes'. Cinema Papers. n. 89 (August).
EPSTEIN, Raphael more Melbourne journalist, broadcaster and writer
Prisoner X (2014)
ERLICH, Rita 1947- Melbourne journalist and food writer
Using Your Noodles (1996)
15 Minute Food (1998)
Colour me Healthy (co-auth with Dr Alice Murkies) (2012)
50 Fabulous Chocolate Cakes (2012)
Colour me Healthy (Yellow) (2012)
Melbourne By Menu
F
FACTOR, June 1936-

Melbourne writer
All Right Vegemite!
Far Out Brussel Sprout (1983)
Roll Over Pavlova
Unreal Banana Peel
Real Keen, Baked Bean!
Ladles and Jellyspoons
A First Australian Poetry Book (ed.)
Australian Childhood: An Anthology (co-ed.)
Big Dipper series (co-ed.)
Cinderella Dressed in Yella (co-ed.)
Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Mickey the Mighty Magpie
Summer
June factor's Jumping Joke Book

Kidspeak: A Dictionary of Australian Children's Words, Expressions and Games (2000)
Lols: Best Jokes for Kids (2012)
FAGENBLAT, Michael Melbourne academic and writer
New Under the Sun : Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics and Culture  (2008)
A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism (Cultural Memory in the Present) (2010)
FALK, Barbara 1910-2008 Melbourne academic and writer
FEIN, Yvonne 1953-

Melbourne writer
The Torn Messiah (2008)

April Fool  (2001)
FENIGER, Saba 1924- Melbourne writer
Short Stories, Long Memories (1999)
FIENBERG, Anna 1956- English-born Sydney writer
Borrowed Light (2013)
Horrendo's Curse (2002)
Joseph (2002)

Tashi (2007)

FINKEL, Elizabeth more Melbourne academic and writer
Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science
The Best Australian Science Writing 2012
The Genome Generation (2012)
FREADMAN, Richard 1951- Melbourne academic and writer
Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will (2001)
Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself (2003)
This Crazy Thing: A Life (2007)
FREIBERG, Freda Film critic and reviewer
'Lost in Oz? Jews in the Australian Cinema'
FREIMAN, Marcelle 1951-

Sydney writer
Marcelle Freiman is a lecturer in creative writing and post-colonial literatures at Macquarie University, Sydney, and has completed her doctorate on the novels of J. M. Coetzee. Her book of poems Monkey’s Wedding (1995) was highly commended for the Mary Gilmore Prize in 1996. Her poetry is published in journals in Australia and England and has been read on radio and in performance.

White Lines (2012)
FRYDMAN, Gloria 1943- What a Life: A Biography of Paul Morawetz (1995)
The Street That Died Young
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GARDNER, Helen 1939-

Melbourne writer
My Mother's Child

GAWENDA, Michael Melbourne journalist and editor
Editor of "The Age" newspaper 1997-2004

American Notebook (2007)
Rocky & Gawenda: The Story of a Man & His Mutt (2010)
GELBACH, Igor 1943- Melbourne writer
Notes from the Esplanade (2003)
Confessions of a Clay Man (2001)
Tsaplin's Testimony (2014)
GETTLER, Leon 1958- Melbourne journalist and writer
An Unpromised Land (1993)
Organisations Behaving Badly: A Greek Tragedy of Corporate Pathology (2011)
GINGOLD, Robert Successful Aging (1992)
GLAS-WIENER, Sheva 1916- Children of the Ghetto (Kinder in Ghetto) 1983
GLASMAN, Eli   Melbourne writer
The Boy's Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew
to be published Sept 2014
GOLD, Alan 1945- Sydney authour
The Jericho Files
The Lost Testament
The Final Candidate
The Gift of Evil
The Marmara Contract
Berlin Song
Minyan
Jezebel (2001)
The Pirate Queen (2003)
GOLDBLOOM, Sandra 1943-

Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo began writing fiction at the age of 50.  Her first novel, The Book of Rachel was published by Allen & Unwin (1998). It was twice in both the Australian Book Review and The Age Top Ten lists.  

Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo's short stories and poetry have been published in magazines and newspapers, including Westerly, Generation and The Age, and in an anthology of modern Australian Jewish writers, Enough Already (Allen & Unwin, 1999). 

The Book of Rachel (1998)
GOLDENBERG, Howard 1946- Melbourne writer
My Father's Compass (2007)
Raft (2009)
Carrots and Jaffas (2014)
GOLDHAR, Pinchas 1901-1947 Stories of Australia (1939) - in Yiddish
DERZEILUNGEN FUN AUSTRALIE
GOLDSMITH, Andrea 1950- Gracious Living (1989)
Modern Interiors (1991)
Facing the Music (1994)
Under the Knife (1998)
The Prosperous Thief (2005)
The Memory Trap (2013)
GOLVAN, Colin 1955- Melbourne writer
Writers and the Law (1986)
Words and Law (1989)
Copyright Law and Practice (2007)
Theatre Daze (1990)
The Distant Exodus (1990)
GOUCH, Gabrielle more Once, Only the Swallows were free (2013)
GOULD, Lucy 1940-

Empty Corners

GRAY, Gary 1926- Melbourne short-story writer
A Spoonful of Soup
Click on the link for Gary's stories online
GRINBLAT, Kathy 1948- Melbourne writer
Biographical details
Kathy was born in Paris, France, to Alexander and Marika Weinberger, young Holocaust survivors who had left their native Czechoslovakia in 1947. The family emigrated to Australia in 1950, and settled in Brisbane.

Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation
(2002)
GROSS, Dick 1954- Melbourne writer
Money For Jam: How To Spread It And Not make A Mess (1990)
  A Godless Gospel 1999
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HALASZ, George more Melbourne writer and psychiatrist
Cries Unheard: A New Look at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(2002)
HARARI, Fiona more Melbourne journalist and writer
Elders (Ed.) (2010)
A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld & Teresa Brennan (2011)
HOFFMANN, Catherine 1948- Crystal (1987)
Forms of Bliss (1988)
HOLKNER, Jean 1926-2004 Taking the Chook (1987)
Aunt Becky's Wedding and Other Traumas (1989)
J
JAWARY, Nita

Melbourne writer
The Perpetual Table V1
The culture and cuisine of Judeo-Babylon and Old Baghdad
with music by Yair Dalal

JUBAL, Benjamin Newman 1902-1961 The smile of Herschale Handle (1947)
K
KAMINSKY, Leah 1959-

Melbourne writer
Books

ABC Guide to Poisons - Houghton Mifflin, 1991

Your Child’s Health - 4th edition (coauthor Prof Frank Oberklaid) Hardie Grant, 2006 (Extensive media reviews) (1st edition 1993)

Spilt Milk - RMIT 1988 ed Judith Rodriguez & Antoni Jach (poetry chapbook)

Poetry
Metamorphosis & Reality’s a Concept in Melbourne Chronicle ed Arnold Zable 1982

(Aus)chwitz to (Aus)tralia in The Tin Wash Dish , ed John Tranter, 1989 (poem short listed in ABC/ABA Literary Awards Competition)

Crabholes in the Sand & Spilled Milk in Fine Line #6 ed Bev Roberts 1989

Counting Sheep in No Overalls Required 1989

Mothers of War in Poetry Australia #129, ed John Millet 1991

Hotel Belle, Hayarkon Street, Tel Aviv in Poetry Australia #132 ed John Millet 1991

Mothers of War shortlisted in The International Shin Shalom Peace Poem Competition, Israel 1992

A Poem for Alon on His Eighth Birthday & Eucalyptus Dreaming in Divan #4 2001 ed Earl Livings #4 2001

Eucalyptus Dreaming in Anthology ‘Forever Eve’, NCJW. 2002

For the full list click on to Leah Kaminsky's page

Stitching Things Together (2010)
The Pen and the Stethoscope (Ed.) (2010)
Writer, M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors (2012)
KARIMI, Kooshyar 1968- Melbourne doctor and writer
I Confess: Revelations in Exile (2012)
KARPIN, Matthew 1959- In Our Own Day (1995)
The Thesis (forthcoming)
KATZ, Danny

Melbourne writer and columnist

Little Lunch series

Spit the Dummy (1999)
Dork Geek Jew 2002
Bites: Big, Bad Bunnies: So cute, they're scary! (2007)
KATZ, Lally 1978- Melbourne playright
Three Plays: The Eisteddfod / The Black Swan of Trespass / Smashed (2008)
Neighbourhood Watch (2011)
Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd / Return to Earth (2012)
KOHN, Peter 1955- Melbourne writer
Rachel's Chance (1987)
View from a Sandcastle (1998)
KOHN, Rachael Sydney writer and broadcaster
The New Believers: Re-imagining God (2005)
Curious Obsessions : The History of Science and Spirituality (2007)
KOVAL, Ramona 1954- Melbourne broadcaster and writer
Samovar (1996)
Jewish Cooking, Jewish Cooks (2009)
Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers (2011)
The Best Australian Essays 2011
The Best Australian Essays 2012
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life (2013 reprint)
KRAMER, Tom From Emancipation to Catastrophe: The Rise and Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry (2000)

Contributor "Children of the Shadows"
KROUK, Nora 1920- Sydney poet
Skin for Comfort
I am writing in English about Russian China: Poems and memoirs (2013)
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LEVI, Dr. John 1934- Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers 1788-1850 (1974)
The Forefathers (1976)
Rabbi Jacob Danglow: The Uncrowned Monarch of Australia's Jews (1995)
Season of Renewal: A Family Haggadah (2002)
These Are the Names (2006)
My Dear Friends: The Life of Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger (2009)
LEW, Dr Henry (Harry) R.

Melbourne doctor and author

Horace Brodzky (1988)

In Search of Derwent Lees  (1996)
The Five Walking Sticks (2000)
The Stories our Parents found too painful to tell
LEWITT, Maria 1924- Come Spring (1980)
No Snow in December (1985)
LIBERMAN, Cassie   Inspirational Australian Women
Wildflower: The Life and Art of Ellis Rowan
Fighting for Freedom: Nancy Wake
LIBERMAN, Serge 1942- Melbourne doctor and author
On Firmer Shores (1981)
A Universe of Clowns (1983)
The Life That I Have Led (1986)
The Battered and the Redeemed (1990)
Voices from the Corner (2000)

Where I Stand

A Bibliography of Australian Judaica
LICHTENSTEIN, Bronwen 1947- The Mazel Tov (1987)
(Published under pseudonym 'Sarah Ebenor')
LICHTER, Ida  

Sydney writer and psychiatrist
Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression (2009)

LIPSKI, Sam Melbourne journalist, broadcaster and editor
LURIE, Morris 1938- Melbourne writer
Many titles including:
Inside the Wardrobe (1975) - stories
Flying Home (1978)
A Whole Life (1988)
Rappaport
Outrageous Behaviour
Snow Jobs
The twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race
The Story of Imelda, Who was small
To Light Attained
M
MARIN, Bernard 1950-

Melbourne writer
My Father, My Father (2002)

MARGO, Jill Frank Lowy - Pushing the Limits
Man Maintenance
Man Maintenance 2
MARKS, Harry 1923-1977 The Heart Is Where the Hurt Is (1966)
Unicorn among the Wattles (1979)
MARKS, Stan 1929- Melbourne writer
God Gave You One Face (1964)
The Holocaust and 21st Century
MARTIN, David 1915-1997 Many books, including:

The Young Wife (1962)
Where a Man Belongs (1969)
MAX, Helen

Melbourne writer
Searching For Yesterday

MILLER, Deborah Masel 1957-2011 Melbourne writer (deceased)
The Maisonettes (2004)
In the Cleft of the Rock: Writings on the Five Books of Moses (2009)
Soul to Soul: Writings from Dark Places (2011)
MYER, Rod 1955- Melbourne writer
The Story of Victor Smorgon: Living the Dream (2000)
N
NASEBY, Eileen 1943- Ursula: A Voyage of Love and Drama (2006)
NAYMAN, Michele 1956- What You Love You Are (1977)
Faces You Can't Find Again (1980) - stories
Somewhere Else (1989)
Jetlag (1994)
P
PERLMAN, Elliot 1964- Melbourne author

Three Dollars (1998)
The Reasons I Won't Be Coming (1999)
Seven Types of Ambiguity (2005)
The Street Sweeper (2012)
Good Morning, Again
PIZER, Marjorie 1920- Sydney poet
A Poet’s Life 1963-2005

Seasons of Love (1975)

Selected Poems 1963-1983 (1984)
Equinox (1987)
Journeys (1992)
To You the Living, Poems for Comfort and Healing (1992)
Below the Surface; Reflections on Life and Living with Anne Spencer Parry. (1994)
Await the Spring (1998)
A Fortunate Star (2001)
POLACK, Gillian 1961- Canberra academic and writer
Illuminations (2002)
PRESSER, BRAM    
R
RAVER, Miki Listen to Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible (1998)
She Is Wisdom: A Celebration Of The Feminine Divine (2004)
REICH, Joe 1940- I Know Precious Little (2011)
    Book of the Weak (2013)
RIEMER, Andrew 1936- The Habsburg Café (1993)
Inside Outside: Life Between Two Worlds (1995)
Between the Fish and the Mudcake
A Family History of Smoking
REITER, David 1947- Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems
Triangles
Letters we never sent
The Gallery
Kiss and Tell
Sharpened Knife
ROSENBERG, Jacob 1922-2008 Lives and Embers
East Of Time
"The Great Survivor" - article in The Age Books
Interview with Ramona Koval on "Books & Writing"
ROSENTHAL, Lesley Sharon 1953- Milkshakes, Men and Melodies (1994)
Schmattes : Stories of Fabulous Frocks, Funky Fashion and Flinders Lane
RUTLAND, Suzanne Articles:
Postwar anti-Jewish refugee hysteria: a case of racial or religious bigotry?: An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
Postwar anti-Jewish refugee hysteria: a case of racial or religious bigotry?: An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
Three "rich uncles in America": the Australian Immigration Project and American Jewry.: An article from: American Jewish History
Books:
Pages of history: A century of the Australian Jewish Press (1995)
With one voice: A history of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (1998)
Edge of the Diaspora:
Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia
(2001)
If You Will It, It Is No Dream: The Moriah Story 1943-2003
The Jews in Australia (2006)
Triumph of the Jewish spirit: 40 years of the Jewish Communal Appeal 1967 - 2007
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SHAIAK, Gedaliah 1905-1983 Born in Poland; arrived in Australia 1949
Force and Defiance - Der opgot in fayer (Yiddish) (1982)
SKOVRON, Alex 1948- Melbourne poet
The Rearrangement (1988)
Sleeve Notes (1992)
Infinite City (1999)
Reviews of Alex Skovron's books
SINGER, Ivan 1922-2008 My Father's Blessing, My Salvation (2002)

The Colour of Liberty (2006)
a sequel of the first book. It deals with 20 years of life after the war.
SINGER, Peter 1946-

Philosopher and writer
Full list of publications

Writings on an Ethical Life
Practical Ethics
Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
SINGER, Renata 1947- The Front of the Family
STONE, Deborah Melbourne journalist, editor, speaker
STONE, Nina (ed) 1935- Silent no more: Melbourne child survivors of the Holocaust : anthology
T
TORSH, Daniela   Sydney writer
“School’s Out” published by Penguin in 1975 with co author Ken Newcombe. A book about what Australian kids would like their school to be.
  A Women’s Education Catalogue (1976)
 
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UNGLIK, Ari

Melbourne writer
Henderson's: The First 100 Years (1993)

Between a rock and a hard place: The story of the development of the EPA (1996)
Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses : A Recipe For Success : Four Generations Of Baking Excellence (1997)
(2001) Building A Life: Ted Lustig's Story
 
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VALENT, Paul 1938- Child Survivors: Adults living with childhood trauma
Review
From Survival to Fulfilment: A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic (Series in Trauma and Loss) (1998)
Child Survivors of the Holocaust (2002)
In Two Minds: Tales of a Psychotherapist (2009)
VARGA, Susan 1943- Sydney writer
Heddy and Me (1994)
Happy Families (1999)
Headlong (2009)
VEROLME, Hetty 1930-

Perth-based writer
The Childrens House of Belsen  2000
Now published in Australia, England, Holland, Germany, Italy and France.

A film is in the works: stay tuned to this page for details as they come to hand.

    Hetty: A True Story (2010)
VERSTANDIG, Mark 1912-2002 I Rest My Case (1995)
 
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WATEN, Judah
1911-1985 Alien Son (1952)
Unbending (1954)
Distant Land (1965)
So Far No Further (1971)
WELDON, Andrew 1971- The Kid with the Amazing Head (1998)
Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions (1999)
I'm so sorry little man, I thought you were a hand-puppet (2002)
WOLSKI, Nathan New Under the Sun : Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics and Culture (2006)
A Journey into the Zohar: An Introduction to the Book of Radiance (2010)
WYNHAUSEN, Elisabeth 1946-2013 Manly Girls (1989)
Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market (2005)
On Resilience (Little Books on Big Themes) (2010)
The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust (2011)
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ZABLE, Arnold

1947-

Melbourne writer
Glenn's Story (film script, 1979)

Clown Boy (children's book, 1982)
The River Man (children's book, 1982)
Jewels and Ashes (Scribe, 1991)
Wanderers and Dreamers: Tales of Yiddish Theatre in Australia
Café Scheherazade (Text Publishing, 2001)
The Fig Tree (Text Publishing, 2002)
Scraps of Heaven (Text Publishing, 2004)
Violin Lessons (2011)
ZAWATZKY, Joan Melbourne writer
Scent of Oranges (2008)
There's a Light at the End of the Tunnel
A compassionate guide to dealing with depression.
The Third Generation (2012)
ZWI, Rose 1928-

Biographical notes
Born in Mexico between 1926 and 1930. Zwi moved with her parents to South Africa in 1930. They were originally from Lithuania. In 1949, she made Aliyah to Israel in an effort to move away from Apartheid, spent some time in London, and then moved back to South Africa in 1953. Zwi graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) in 1967 with an Honours degree in English Literature. Rose worked as book editor at Ravan Press between 1979 and 1981, and began visiting black townships to take part in illegal poetry readings. In 1988, Rose moved to Australia, where she continued publishing her books. Rose has also written short stories, including "Stones", which won the Thomas Pringle award for best short story.

Another Year in Africa Bateleur (Johannesburg, 1980)
The Inverted Pyramid Ravan Press (Johannesburg, 1981)
Exiles Ad Donker (Craighall, South Africa, 1984)
The Umbrella Tree (New York, 1990)
Safe Houses (1994), for which she won the Australian Human Rights Award for Literature
Last Walk in Naryshkin Park (Spinifex 1998)
Speak the Truth, Laughing (2002)
ZWICKY, Fay 1933-

Melbourne writer
Biographical notes

Fay was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1933. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with an MA, and began publishing poems and short stories in the 1950's. She had a career as a concernt pianist for several years, and then took up a position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia in their English department from 1972 to 1987. Zwicky was a member of the Literature Board. In 1982, Zwicky was writer-in-residence at Macquarie University (Sydney). In 1984, she was writer-in-residence at Rollins College in Florida (USA), and in 1985, moved to LaTrobe University (Melbourne).

Zwicky has worked overseas in Indonesia, Europe and America. She received the New South Wales Premier's Award in 1982, and the Western Australian Premier's Award in 1991 for poetry. She has published approximately 259 works, including reviews, criticisms, poetry,
and short stories. Some of her most recognised works include:
Isaac Babel's Fiddle (Poetry, 1975)
Kaddish and Other Poems (Poetry, 1982)
Journeys: Poetry of Judith Wright, Rosemary Hobson, Gwen Harwood and Dorothy Hewitt   (Editor, 1982)
The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on Literature and Survival 1974-1984 (Critical Essays, 1986)
Fay Zwicky: Poems 1970-1992 (1993)
The Gatekeeper's Wife (1998)
Picnic (2006)
   
Write Your Story
The program of the Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne
Authors include:
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

 

 

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