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Lionel Sharpe on Jewish schooling

Lionel Sharpe.

Lionel Sharpe discusses the experience of Jewish schooling

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Date Added:

15 February 2009

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mov (Quicktime);

File size:

2.8MB

Length:

01min09sec

Transcript

Sharpe:

00:09

The first big Jewish day school was established in 1948, this was the first time there was a community school, it wasn’t just a Yiddish school or a Hebrew school, this was a community school which a man by the name of Ben Siempatkin (sp?) he was advocating from before the war to the establishment of a Jewish school. 1948, there was Mount Scopus Memorial College and of course, it started in an old mansion house on St Kilda Road and it grew to over 2000 students. And that was really a melting pot for the Jewish community. Children of people who had been born in Australia, new immigrants, brought them together, the school had a policy not to refuse anybody on the grounds of financial ground and it became a melting pot in which the newcomers and the earlier arrivals could merge together.

01:08

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