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Among the thousands of men and women transported to Van Diemen's Land was a small though significant contingent of Jews. In a colony where Christianity was assumed as the norm. the religious and cultural heritage of Jewish convicts complicated their lives. This chapter looks at a distinctive group within this religious minority, the Sephardi convicts, and though biographies of a male and female convict considers the pressures of their heritage upon their construction of colonial identity.
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Publication title
A Few from Afar: Jewish Lives in Tasmania from 1804Pagination
73-82ISBN
646422073Publisher
Hobart Hebrew CongregationPublication status
- Published
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