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Did Jews come to Australia

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12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Yes. The first Jews in Australia were convicts. There were between 8 and 14 Jews on the First Fleet. Free Jewish settlers began arriving from 1816 onwards because Australia offered religious freedom not available to them in their homelands.

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