Prologue
Preface Introduction |
Dan Lewis
Michael Paris Stephen Levine |
Part One: Blessings for the Congregation
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Message to the Wellington Hebrew Congregation: Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks Message to the Wellington Jewish Community: Rabbi Raymond Apple A Tremendous Honour: Rabbi Laurence Brown With Greetings of Peace: Rabbi Tobias SilbermanRabbi A Pleasure and Privilege: Rabbi Irvin Broder Words of Blessing: Rabbi Yonadav Tomer Pride in Our Heritage: Rabbi Chaim Dovrat |
Part Two: The Founding of the Wellington Hebrew Congregation
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The Early History of the Wellington Jewish Community (1840-1859): Maurice S Pitt Abraham Hort and his Family: Stephen Levine The First Jewish Cemetary: Colonial Jewry in Wellington |
Part Three: The First Synagogue
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The First Synagogue: Maurice S Pitt The Wellington Hebrew Congregation: Extracts from the Annual Reports (1873-1929) The Van Staveren Ministry: Maurice S Pitt Van Staveren: A Rabbi of the People: Nigel Isaacs Leaders of the Community: Maurice S Pitt Joseph Edward Nathan and Jacob Joseph: Ruth and Tom Ball Six Presidents, One Family: Lawerence D J Nathan Wellington Jews at Gallipoli: Janet Salek The Jewish Flag: From Jerusalem to Wellington to Jerusalem: Stephen Levine |
Part Four: The Second Synagogue
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The Second Synagogue: The New Zealand Jewish Review The Wellington Hebrew Congregation: Extracts from the Annual Reports (1930-1977) The Myers Family Story: Lewis Myers Sir Michael Myers: Cyril Boock David Markham: Ernest Markham Charles and Bessie Weinstein: Reka Solomons The Meltzer/Garshook Family: Joce Lederman Rabbinical Messages to the Community The Katz Years, 1931-1944: Dorothy Moses Rabbi Joseph Wolman: Blanche Weinstein The Wellington Hebrew School: Avigayil Broock Paley The Meisel Family: Kurt Meisel Class of '52: The First Bas Mitzvah: Shirley Payes The Wellington Jewish Social Club Performances and Tableaux: Jewish Social Life in Wellington: Alex Harris Wellington Jewish Retailers, 1940s and 1950s: Michael Clements Jewish Communal Life: Extracts from the Jewish Press Jewish Cultural Life in Wellington: Paul Hochberg Zionist Groups and Activities: Gretel Lewis WIZO: Doris Lewis Wellington's Council of Jewish Women: Shirley Payes Annie and Max Deckston: the Deckston home: Eileen Silestean The Deckston Home and the Deckstons: Arnold Solomons The Wellington Hebrew Philanthropic Society: Dan Lewis HIAS and Jewish Immigration: Alexander Schiff Habonim: Naomi (Levy) Walker Finding a Rabbi: Henry Kerry Valedictory Address on the Last Shabbat at The Terrace Synagogue: Rabbi Abraham Rosenfeld |
Part Five: The Third Synagogue
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The Wellington Community Centre Project: The New Zealand Jewish Chronicle Consecration Service of the Wellington Jewish Community Centre: Rabbi Abraham Rosenfeld The Wellington Hebrew Congregation: Extracts from the Annual Reports (1978-1993) Rabbinical Messages to the Community Fifty-five Years in Wellington: Theo Westheim Forty Years on when Afar and Asunder: Peter Wise Henry Kerry: Michael and Barbara Clements Commitment and Community: The Wellington Hebrew Congregation and Wellington Jewry: Gerald Shapiro Bnei Akiva and Wellington Jewry: Michael Sedley The Wellington Council of Christians and Jews: Jim van Praag B'nai B'rith: George Pressburg The Life and Times of Moriah Kindergarten: Gaila Goldman and Lynda Young |
Part Six: Families of the Wellington Hebrew Congregation
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Into the Sixth Generation: The Levys of Wellington: Hal B Levine The Wellington Families: Green and Spolsky: Bernard Spolsky The Woolf Family: Inge Woolf Charles and Mabel Rosen: Mabel Rosen Joseph and Gretel Lewis: Gretel Lewis The Green Family: David Green Tangled Branches: A history of family connections of the Arndt, Isaacs, Heinemann, Ziman and Manoy families as seen through my eyes: Susan Isaacs A Jew from Scotland: Doris Lewis The Sherr Family in Wellington: Channa Durden A Tale of Three Synagogues: Ellis Greenburg Beth-El: Cradle of My Generation: Ivan Cher The Broock Family: Cyril Broock Sandra and Ian Lawrence: Ian Lawrence The Berman, Maris and de Woolf Families: Adele Hirsh Forty-four Months as Race Relations Conciliator: A Private Perspective on a Public Position: Walter Hirsh From Kenya to New Zealand: A Potpourri of Experiences: Herman Strauss 'Don't Give Me so Much of your Bloody Meat!': John W Schnellenburg A Survivor in Wellington: Hanka Pressburg From Prague to Wellington: George Pressburg Prisoner 2065 -- Auschwitz, 1942-1945: Lotte Weiss Fragments from a Holocaust Survivor: Clare Winter Remembering the Second World War: Roma Herrmann Memories of Suffering and Survival in the Shoah: Joe Chanesman (with Josephine Chanesman) The Winter Family: A Short History: Clare Winter A Farewell to Berlin -- A Welcome to New Zealand: Sigi (Siegbert) Relis The Kuttner Family: Norman Kuttner Returning HomeMichael Kuttner My Life Route: Vijnita -- Berlin -- Shanghai -- Wellington: Mendel Pistiner The Lemchen Family: Hannah Lemchen Templeton In the Land of the Soviets: Rosa Hochburg Small Group -- Big Impact: Bert Schor My Relatives in New Zealand: Zygmunt Frankel Memories of a Wellington Jewish Childhood: Chaim (Harry) Heitner Wellington in the Early '40s: Leslie Bor The First Zionist Youth Camps in New Zealand: Bert Schor The Gray Family: Bella Taylor From Budapest to Wellington to Jerusalem: Steven Sedley Samuel Treister Family: Wellington 1914-1993: Vera Dabscheck and Arnold Treister The Dabscheck Family: Vera Dabscheck The Gotlieb Family: Vera Dabscheck, Gerald Gotlieb and Shirley Payes The Paris Family: Les Paris From Poverty to Paradise: Eda Payes The Ketko Family: Wellington and Jerusalem: Shlomo Ketko The Ketko Family: Joe and Raoul Ketko The Faine Family: Bessie Goldstein and Jean Nathanson The Tossman Family: Michael Clements and Betty van Praag (nee Tossman) The Mishkin and Lust Families: Norm and Beverly Lust Hyman and Kate Phillips: Alex Harris Yiddishkeit and Community: Contributing to Jewish Life in New Zealand: Betty Phillips New Zealand's Early Zionists: A Story of Romanian Jews in Napier: Nellie Charles Becoming Jewish: Doug Eddy Tanne-Time!: David Tanne 'Walk in the Ways of Thine Heart': New Beginnings in Wellington: Eva and Willie Levick From King David School to Moriah College: Ailene Sher The Chereshsky Family: Annette Chereshsky Family From Kiev to Wellington: The Gezentsvey Family: Sarra Gezentsvey The Gezentsvey-Sterental Family: Diseree S Gezentsvey Catskills Memories: Stephen Levine |
Part Seven: Blessings for the Congregation
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Blessings for the Rabbis, Leaders and Members of the Congregation, and the Founders of the SynagogueMemorial Plaques, Synagogue, Webb Street |
Epilogue: Blessings for the Congregation
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Congratulary Messages Outside In: An Ex-Wellingtonian's View of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations: Karyn (Lewis) Cyngler Two Dedication Ceremonies: Dan Lewis |