Sydney

Convict-era origins (1788 First Fleet Jews - documented) to the Great Synagogue (1878); Australia's second community.

Modern locality anchor

Sydney

Australia · City · 33.9°S 151.2°E

This anchor orients the sourced locality record. It is not a reconstructed historical position or border; the single map below provides geographic context.

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Where is Sydney?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Sydney?

1788–1828

Convict-era origins (1788; documented)

1878–1945

Great Synagogue era (1878)

This section addresses destruction and loss. It is one chapter, not the whole story — continue to what survives and what was created after

1945–present

Contemporary community

Today

Second Australian community.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Sydney sound like?

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Sydney

Second Australian community.

Great Synagogue
synagogue · historic site
Built 1878.
Sydney Jewish Museum
museum · museum

SOURCES & REVIEW

Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World (2024 country figures)
Jewish Virtual Library · 2024 · open source
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (place entry)
Macmillan Reference USA · 2007

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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