Biographies
People
Only what can be sourced. Nothing is inferred into a life.
- Raye FreedmanA life that became a legacy.Philanthropy · Business · Community role · Refugee / Immigration
- David NathanMerchant. His shop loft was Auckland's first place of Jewish prayer.Business · Community role
- Rosetta NathanMarried in the first recorded Jewish wedding in New Zealand; crossed the Tasman so her sons could enter the covenant.Community role
- Joel Samuel PolackTrader and author who lived at Kororāreka in the 1830s.Business · Arts
- Abraham HortConvened Wellington's first organised Jewish prayer service, days after arriving from London.Community role · Religion
- Julius VogelJewish immigrant, journalist, and twice Premier of New Zealand in the 1870s.Public life · Business
- Marti FriedlanderShe arrived as an outsider, and helped New Zealand see itself.Arts · Refugee / Immigration · Philanthropy
- Gerrard FriedlanderBerlin → British Mandate Palestine → New Zealand. Dentist, and later a cultural philanthropist.Refugee / Immigration · Philanthropy
- Henry KulkaEuropean modernist, refugee, and the architect of more than fifty New Zealand houses.Arts · Refugee / Immigration
- Gisèle SchenirerAlexandria to Auckland — a reminder that Jewish New Zealand was never only European.Refugee / Immigration · Community role
- Robert FallekNamed in the 1964 photograph. Everything else is research in progress.Refugee / Immigration