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The vast majority of Jews in Oceania (estimation 120,000) live in Australia, with a population of about 7,000 in New Zealand (6867,{{cite web|url=http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/profile-and-summary-reports/quickstats-culture-identity/tables.aspx|title=Religious Affiliation (total response)|year=2013|work=2013 Census Data – QuickStats About Culture and Identity – Tables|page=Table 31|no-pp=y|access-date=12 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909005226/http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/profile-and-summary-reports/quickstats-culture-identity/tables.aspx|archive-date=9 September 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} according to the 2013 NZ Census). Most are Ashkenazi Jews, with many being survivors of the Holocaust arriving during and after World War II. More recently, a significant number of Jews have arrived from South Africa, Israel, the United Kingdom and Russia. The official number of people who practised Judaism in the 2001 census was only 121,459 but this number is expected to be much higher, as it did not count those overseas (i.e. dual Australian-Israeli nationals) or many non-practicing Jews who prefer not to disclose religion in the census are more common. Since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Australia's Jewish population has hovered around 0.5% of the total counted.

The vast majority of Australia's Jews live in inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney with smaller populations, in numerical order, in Perth, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Adelaide. Currently, there are also recognised communities in Ballarat, Bendigo/Castlemaine, Canberra, Geelong, Gosford, Hobart, Launceston and Newcastle.

In Melbourne, the Jewish population centre is Caulfield where there are streets with nearly a 100% Jewish population; the main areas of settlement spread out from Caulfield in two arcs: south through St Kilda, Elwood, Elsternwick, Brighton, Moorabbin and right down to Frankston; east through Toorak, Malvern, Hawthorn, Kew, Balwyn to Doncaster. In Sydney the major areas of Jewish settlement are in the east and on the North Shore, in particular the suburbs of Bondi, Dover Heights, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, St Ives and Hunters Hill.

In New Zealand, most Jews live in Auckland and Wellington with smaller populations in Dunedin and Christchurch. Dunedin synagogue has possibly the world's southernmost Jewish congregation.[http://vital.org.nz/nzjews.html Jews in New Zealand]

The following is a list of prominent Oceanian Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Australia

=Academic figures=

  • Roy Clive Abraham, linguistOxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • Samuel Alexander, philosopher
  • Neal Ashkanasy, psychologist and emotional intelligence academic
  • Phillip Blashki, successful businessman, magistrate, JP
  • Bernard Boas, marriage guidance counsellor, broadcaster, author of biblical treatises{{cite web |title=Bernard Boas |publisher=AustLit |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A80311}}{{subscription required}}
  • Ron Castan, barrister and rights advocate
  • Sir Zelman Cowen, Governor-General (1977–1982), lawyer, university lecturer (including past appointments as Provost, Dean and Vice-Chancellor)
  • Linda Dessau, 29th Governor of Victoria, and former Family Court Judge
  • Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge
  • Alan Finkel, Australia's Chief Scientist
  • Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist[http://www.science.org.au/scientists/of.htm Interviews with Australian scientists] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061002110639/http://www.science.org.au/scientists/of.htm |date=2 October 2006 }}
  • Bryan Gaensler, astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year
  • Fred Hilmer, academic, lawyer and businessman
  • David Isaacs, architect and structural engineer, musician and composer{{cite web |title=The structural sufficiency of domestic buildings / by David V. Isaacs |publisher=National Library of Australia |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18012969}}
  • Phillip Isaacs, architect and structural engineer{{cite web |title=Phillip Isaacs OAM |publisher=LinkedIn |url=https://au.linkedin.com/in/phillip-isaacs-oam-ba16b028 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Joseph Jacobs, historian and folklorist[http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm "Joseph Jacobs"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070420120118/http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm |date=20 April 2007 }} Northern State University, Aberdeen, S.D.
  • Justice Stephen Kaye, judge of the Court of Appeal
  • William Kaye, judge of the Supreme Court 1972–1991{{cite web |title=The Hon. William Kaye AO QC - obituary |publisher=Chaim Freedman |url=http://chfreedman.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-hon-william-kaye-ao-qc-obituary.html}}
  • Kurt Mahler, mathematician
  • Robert Manne, academic and social critic
  • Sir Matthew Nathan, British soldier and judge, Governor of Queensland 1920–1925, after also serving as Governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong and Natal; the Brisbane suburbs of Nathan and Nathan Heights are named after him, as is Nathan Street, in the Canberra suburb of Deakin
  • Bernhard Neumann, mathematician
  • Gustav Nossal, immunologist (Jewish father)
  • Robert Richter, barrister and human rights advocate
  • Hilary L. Rubinstein, historian
  • William D. Rubinstein, historian
  • Suzanne Rutland, historian
  • Peter Singer, philosopher
  • Julius Stone, distinguished legal theorist, professor of jurisprudence and international law{{cite web |title=About Professor Julius Stone |url=http://sydney.edu.au/law/jurisprudence/juliusstone.shtml |publisher=University of Sydney}}
  • Louis Waller, public teacher of law and law reformer
  • James Wolfensohn, World Bank president
  • Sir Albert Wolff, Chief Justice of Western Australia
  • Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist and language revivalist

=Business figures=

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=Cultural figures=

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=Political figures=

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==National figures==

==Local body politicians==

=Religious figures=

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  • Rabbi Dr Joseph Abrahams, prominent Melbourne rabbi of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was unsuccessful as a candidate in 1911 for the position of Chief Rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth{{cite book |title=The doctor & his brothers: The Abrahams family |author=Raymond Apple |publisher=Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal Vol. 26, Part 2 (2023)|url=https://oztorah.com/2025/01/the-doctor-his-brothers-the-abrahams-family/}}
  • Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple, Senior Rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Sydney, Senior Rabbi to the Australian Defence Force, Registrar of the Sydney Beth Din, author of OzTorah.com, and the leading spokesperson for Jews and Judaism in Australia from 1972 to 2005
  • Rabbi Elias Blaubaum, rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation for 40 years, newspaper editor{{cite book |title=Blaubaum, Elias (1847–1904) |author=Hilary L. Rubinstein |chapter=Elias Blaubaum (1847–1904) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blaubaum-elias-12802}}
  • Rabbi Abraham Tobias Boas, rabbi in Adelaide for about 40 years{{cite book |title=Boas, Abraham Tobias (1842–1923) |author=Louise Rosenberg |chapter=Abraham Tobias Boas (1842–1923) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boas-abraham-tobias-5277}}
  • Rabbi Rudolph (Rudie) Brasch, senior reform rabbi in Sydney for over 30 years, a well-known author and broadcaster
  • Gen. Paul Cullen, founder of Emanuel Synagogue, Sydney, Army General
  • Rabbi Francis Cohen, prominent Sydney rabbi in the early 20th century{{cite book |title=Cohen, Francis Lyon (1862–1934) |author=Suzanne D. Rutland |chapter=Francis Lyon Cohen (1862–1934) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-francis-lyon-5710}}
  • Rabbi Jacob Danglow, rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation 1905–1962, one of the most prominent rabbis in both the Jewish and the general communitiesJohn Levi, Rabbi Jacob Danglow: The Uncrowned Monarch of Australia's Jews, 1995, Melbourne University Publishing.Newman Rosenthal, Look Back with Pride: the St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation's first century, 1971, T. Nelson, Melbourne.{{cite book |title=Danglow, Jacob (1880–1962) |author=J. S. Levi |chapter=Jacob Danglow (1880–1962) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/danglow-jacob-5878}}
  • Rev Alexander Davis, over 30 years as minister of the York Street and Great synagogues{{cite book |title=Davis, Alexander Barnard (1828–1913) |author=G. F. J. Bergman |chapter=Alexander Barnard Davis (1828–1913) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/davis-alexander-barnard-3379}}
  • Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Rabbi of the Yeshiva Centre
  • Rabbi David Freedman, rabbi in Perth for over 40 years{{cite book |title=Freedman, David Isaac (1874–1939) |author=O. B. Tofler |chapter=David Isaac Freedman (1874–1939) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/freedman-david-isaac-6242}}
  • Rabbi Harry Freedman, rabbi in Sydney and translator for Soncino Press
  • Rabbi David Freilich, rabbi in Perth 1988–2012{{cite web |title=Rabbi Freilich OAM |publisher=Perth Hebrew Congregation |url=https://www.theperthshule.asn.au/rabbi-freilich |access-date=19 June 2017 |archive-date=24 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024130006/http://www.theperthshule.asn.au/rabbi-freilich |url-status=dead }}
  • Rabbi Ralph Genende, rabbi at Caulfield, and prominent in interfaith dialogue{{cite web |title=Rabbi Genende |publisher=Caulfield Hebrew Congregation |url=http://www.caulfieldshule.com.au/rabbi-genende.html |access-date=29 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171221003157/http://www.caulfieldshule.com.au/rabbi-genende.html |archive-date=21 December 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
  • Rabbi Lazarus Goldman, rabbi at Toorak Road synagogue, author and historian, died on the bimah in 1960 whilst conducting a Kol Nidre service in Adelaide{{cite web |title=Rabbi LM Goldman – a profile |publisher=OzTorah|url=http://www.oztorah.com/2011/03/rabbi-lm-goldman-a-profile/}}
  • Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, director of many Chabad operations in Victoria
  • Rabbi J. L. Guerewitz, long serving rabbi at Carlton United synagogue
  • Rabbi Chaim Gutnick, formerly rabbi of Elwood Synagogue for over forty years and life president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria
  • Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick, rabbi at Elwood and member of the Beth Din
  • Rabbi Sholom Gutnick, rabbi at Caulfield for about 40 years, and Av Beth Din
  • Rabbi Philip Heilbrunn, Rabbi Emeritus and long-serving rabbi at St Kilda{{cite web |title=Past Rabbis |publisher=St Kilda Hebrew Congregation |url=http://stkildashule.org.au/past-rabbis}}
  • Rabbi John Levi, first Australian-born rabbi, prominent Progressive rabbi, teacher and historianEliot Baskin, Werner Graff, Malcolm Turnbull, A Time to Keep:The story of Temple Beth Israel 1930 to 2005, 2005, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne.{{cite web |title=Our Rabbis |publisher=Temple Beth Israel, Victoria |url=http://www.tbi.org.au/about/our-rabbis/ |access-date=1 July 2015 |archive-date=2 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702132033/http://www.tbi.org.au/about/our-rabbis/ |url-status=dead }}
  • Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky, rabbi at St Kilda for over 30 years{{cite web |title=Obituary – Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky AM |publisher= Oz Torah |url=http://www.oztorah.com/2010/08/obituary-rabbi-ronald-lubofsky-am/}}
  • Joseph Marcus, convict who trained as a rabbi and is reputed to have conducted the first Jewish services in Sydney
  • Rabbi Jerome Mark, the first Progressive rabbi in Australia{{cite news |title=Australian Jewry Excited at Rabbi Mark's Plans to Form Liberal Jewish Organization |date=29 September 1930 |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |url=http://www.jta.org/1930/09/29/archive/australian-jewry-excited-at-rabbi-marks-plans-to-form-liberal-jewish-organization}}
  • Rev Joseph Myers, minister in Brisbane for 43 years{{cite web |title=Queensland Jewish History |author=Morris S. Ochert OAM |publisher=Jewish QLD |url=http://jewishqld.com/about-the-jewish-community/queensland-jewish-history/}}
  • Mrs Ada Phillips, founder of Australia's first permanent Progressive congregation in Melbourne{{cite web |title=Our History |publisher=Temple Beth Israel, Victoria |url=http://www.tbi.org.au/about/our-history/ |access-date=2 July 2015 |archive-date=2 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702210335/http://www.tbi.org.au/about/our-history/ |url-status=dead }}
  • Rabbi Israel Porush, prominent and long-serving Sydney rabbi{{cite book |title=Porush, Israel (1907–1991) |author=Suzanne D. Rutland |chapter=Israel Porush (1907–1991) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/porush-israel-15194}}
  • Mr Abraham Rabinovitch, philanthropist and founder of Sydney's main Orthodox Jewish educational institutions
  • Rev Moses Rintel, first minister of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, and later of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation
  • Rabbi Louis Rubin-Zacks, rabbi in Perth for 25 years
  • Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger, important Melbourne progressive rabbi, responsible for the spread of progressive Judaism to other parts of AustraliaJohn Levi, My Dear Friends, 2009, Australian Jewish Historical Society, Melbourne.{{cite book |title=Sanger, Herman Max (1909–1980) |author=by J. S. Levi |chapter=Herman Max Sanger (1909–1980) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sanger-herman-max-11613}}
  • Rabbi Max Schenk, first Progressive rabbi in Sydney, early Zionist{{cite web |title=Our History |publisher=Emanuel Synagogue, Woollahra, NSW |url=https://emanuel.org.au/about/history-emanuel-synagogue |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703001740/https://emanuel.org.au/about/history-emanuel-synagogue |archive-date=3 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }}

=Sports figures=

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=Other figures=

Fiji

French Polynesia

Guam

New Zealand

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=Business figures=

  • Sir Woolf Fisher, industrialist[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/new-zealand New Zealand], Jewish Virtual Library.
  • Bendix Hallenstein, clothing manufacturer and merchant, and MP{{cite web |title=Hallenstein, Bendix |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2h6/hallenstein-bendix}}
  • Michael Hirschfeld, businessman, activist and Labour Party president[http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/1999/11/14/26180.html "Michael Hirschfeld Gallery Honours Staunch Friend of the Arts"], City Gallery, Wellington.
  • Maurice Joel, brewer and philanthropist (father of Grace Joel, qv)
  • Nathaniel William Levin, businessman, father of:
  • William Levin, businessman, benefactor{{cite web |title=Levin, William Hort |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2l9/levin-william-hort}}
  • John Israel Montefiore, trader, merchant, later involved in civic affairs{{cite web |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1m50/montefiore-john-israel |title=Montefiore, John Israel |publisher=Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=10 September 2016}}
  • David Nathan, retailer{{cite news |title=Jews |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/jews/page-1}}
  • Joseph Nathan, founder of GlaxoSmithKline
  • Sara Tetro, entrepreneur, television personality, and modelStone, A., "[https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10789408 New Zealand's Jewish achievers]," New Zealand Herald 3 March 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

=Cultural figures=

  • Esmond de Beer, historian, collector, philanthropist{{cite web |title=de Beer, Esmond Samuel |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4d9/de-beer-esmond-samuel}}
  • Gina Bellman, actress[http://www.tv.com/people/gina-bellman/ Gina Bellman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107195253/http://www.tv.com/people/gina-bellman/ |date=7 November 2013 }}, tv.com.
  • Charles Brasch, poet, literature patron[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5b40/brasch-charles-orwell Brasch, Charles Orwell] The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
  • Angela D'Audney, television anchor{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=888678 | work=The New Zealand Herald | first=Louisa | last=Cleave | title=Obituary: Angela D'Audney | date=7 February 2002}}
  • Benjamin Farjeon, writer
  • Willi Fels, philanthropist and collector{{cite web |title=Fels, Willi |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3f2/fels-willi}}
  • Deb Filler,[http://www.fillerup.ca Deb Filler] writer, comic actor
  • Marti Friedlander, photographer
  • Richard Fuchs, composer and architect{{Cite web |url=http://www.richardfuchs.org.nz/archive_who.php |title=The Richard Fuchs archive |access-date=16 March 2012 |archive-date=23 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223231511/http://www.richardfuchs.org.nz/archive_who.php |url-status=dead }}
  • Joseph Herscher, YouTube personality{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/73969462|publisher=Stuff.co.nz|title=Meet the Kiwi making the world's best Rube Goldberg machines|date=2015-11-18|last=Black|first=Eleanor|quote=In it Herscher plays Jiwi (for Jewish Kiwi), an inventor who lives with his sister June (Olivia Tennet) in an inherited house, creating gentle mayhem with his fantastical machines.}}
  • Grace Joel, artist{{cite web |title=Joel, Grace Jane |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2j3/joel-grace-jane}}
  • Emma Lahana, actress{{cite tweet |author=Emma Lahaha |user=emmaklahana |number=1379160172208132096 |title=another jewish vegan here 🙋🏻 and I concur... delete this and stop this comparison for good ffs |date=5 April 2021 |access-date=7 April 2021}}
  • Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050407184509/http://www.mindpowernews.com/MindsOfAnimals.htm "Inside the minds of animals"]}}, Mindpowernews.com.
  • Taika Waititi, film director, writer, painter, comedian and actorRosen, S., "[http://jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/fyi-taika-waititi-totes-jewish FYI: Taika Waititi is totes Jewish]," jewcy.com, 24 October 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2018.

=Political figures=

==National figures==

  • Frederick Baume, Member of Parliament{{cite web |title=Baume, Frederick Ehrenfried |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b11/baume-frederick-ehrenfried}}
  • Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, Prime Minister (1925) (Jewish mother)Levine, S. (1999) [https://books.google.com/books?id=bAvq5YxwcfkC New Zealand Jewish community]. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books (Google books), p. 22.
  • Sir Tom Eichelbaum, Chief Justice (1989–1999)[http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/about/judges/former-chiefs "Former Chief Justices"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316150424/http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/about/judges/former-chiefs |date=16 March 2012 }}, Courts of New Zealand.
  • Eddie Isbey, (1917-1995), New Zealand Labour Party MP from 1969 to 1987
  • Sir John Key (born 1961), Prime Minister (2008–2016) (Jewish mother){{cite news|url=http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10412332|title=Will the real John Key step forward|last=Berry|first=Ruth|date=25 November 2006|access-date=27 November 2006|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121228001500/http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10412332|archive-date=28 December 2012|url-status=dead|publisher=The New Zealand Herald|quote=My mother was Jewish which technically makes me Jewish.}}
  • Sir Michael Myers, chief justice (1929–1946)
  • Frederick Pirani, politician
  • Samuel Shrimski, Member of Parliament
  • Sir Julius Vogel, Prime Minister (1873–1875, 1876), newspaper founder, and science-fiction writer

==Local body politicians==

  • Mayors
  • Ashburton: Hugo Friedlander (1879–1881, 1890–1892, 1898–1901)
  • Auckland: Philip Philips (Auckland's first mayor, 1871–1874), Henry Isaacs (1874), Sir Arthur Myers (1905–08), Sir Ernest Davis (1935–1941),{{cite web |title=Davis, Ernest Hyam |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4d7/davis-ernest-hyam}} Sir Dove-Myer Robinson (1959–1965, 1968–1980),{{cite web |title=Robinson, Dove-Myer |publisher=Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5r19/robinson-dove-myer}} and Colin Kay (1980–1983)
  • Christchurch: Charles Louisson (1888–1889, 1898–1899)Goldman, L. M. (1958). "Chapter XX – Jews in Industry and Commerce". The History of the Jews in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. p. 147.
  • Invercargill: Abraham Wachner (1942–1950), Eve Poole (1983–1992)[http://www.sinai.org.nz/community/archives.html Temple Sinai] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220065128/http://www.sinai.org.nz/community/archives.html |date=20 February 2012 }}, NZ Jewish archives.
  • Palmerston North: Solomon Abrahams (1887–1889){{cite web|url=https://digitalnz.org/records/1811870|access-date=22 September 2018|title=Mr and Mrs Solomon Abrahams}}{{cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19320427.2.170|access-date=22 September 2018|title=Obituary|date=27 April 1932|publisher=The New Zealand Herald - archived by PapersPast}}
  • Wellington: Ian Lawrence (1986–1989), Mark Blumsky (1995–2001)
  • Other
  • Dame Barbara Goodman, Auckland local body politician
  • Saul Goldsmith, merchant and local body politician

=Religious figures=

  • Rabbi Herman van Staveren (1849–1930), rabbi of the Wellington Hebrew Congregation and senior NZ rabbi, 1877–1930{{cite web |url=https://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2s40/staveren-herman-van |title=Staveren, Herman van: Biography |publisher=Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand|access-date=9 September 2017}}
  • Rabbi Samuel Goldstein (1852–1935), rabbi of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation for 54 years, 1880–1934{{cite web |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3g15/goldstein-samuel-aaron |title=Goldstein, Samuel Aaron: Biography |publisher=Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=15 April 2017}}
  • Rabbi Alexander Astor (1900–1988), rabbi of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation, 1934–71{{cite web |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5a23/astor-alexander|title=Astor, Alexander: Biography |publisher=Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=15 April 2017}}

=Sports figures=

  • Jo Aleh (born 1986), sailor, national champion, world champion, and Olympic champion[http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/07/3103161/medals-and-mettle-for-olympics-jewish-athletes1 "Raisman, Down Under athletes soar among Jewish Olympians"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106200150/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/07/3103161/medals-and-mettle-for-olympics-jewish-athletes1 |date=6 November 2012 }}, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  • Nathan Cohen, Olympic champion and world champion rower{{cite news |title=New Zealand Jewish rower Nathan Cohen wins Olympic gold |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=August 3, 2012 |newspaper=Jewish Journal |url=https://jewishjournal.com/news/world/106836/}}
  • Josh Kronfeld, rugby player{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC|author= Bob Wechsler |isbn=978-1-60280-013-7|title=Day by day in Jewish Sports History |publisher=KTAV Publishing House|year= 2008|access-date=2 February 2013}}

=Other figures=

Palau

Samoa

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080420101738/http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/Jews/en Jews in New Zealand in Te Ara online encyclopaedia]
  • [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/J/Jews/Jews/en Jews in New Zealand in 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand]
  • [http://www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/Publications/research_guides/guides/haven/chapter6.htm Prominent Australian Jews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080721090603/http://www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/Publications/research_guides/guides/haven/chapter6.htm |date=21 July 2008 }}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120308070145/http://www.nzjewisharchives.org/history.htm New Zealand Jewish archives: Notes on Jewish Participation in New Zealand History]

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