Greetings from the Jews of Australia were brought here by Melech Ravitch, well known poet, who passed through here on his return journey to Warsaw after spending some months in the Antipodes.
There are about 27,000 Jews in Australia, of whom 5,000 are recent immigrants. A Yiddish weekly is now being published. Melbourne has a Jewish Community of nearly 10,000 persons. The economic position of Australian Jewry is quite sound, he said in an interview.
Ravitch’s plan to open the vast stretches of northern Australia for Jewish colonization received much comment in the Jewish press all over the world. But the government of Australia found it necessary to declare that the time is not ripe for such a colonization project.
The visitor who is the secretary of the Association of Jewish Journalists in Warsaw, spent many months in the South Sea Dominions in the interests of the “Tzischa” Schools in Poland.
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