Suzanne Dorothy Rutland

Suzanne Dorothy Rutland (* 1946 in Sydney ) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney . Her specialty is the history of the Australian Jews. Her accompanying work: The Edge of Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia was first published in 1988. Her work The Jews in Australia was published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press . She has held numerous leadership positions, including President of the Australian Jewish Historical Society . The Australian Association of Jewish Studies convened and held the 19th annual conference in February 2007.

Research areas

• Australian Judaism
• The Holocaust and Dutch Judaism
• Jewish education in Australia
• Modern Israel

classes

• Jewish civilization, ideas and cultures
• The Australian Jewish Experience
• The Evolution of Judaism in the New World

Publications (selection)

• Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia , American edition :, New York: Holmes & Meier, 2001, i - xv, 479.
• With One Voice: the History of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Sydney, Australian Jewish Historical Society, 1998, Ix, 405. (co-authored)
• If you will it, it is no dream: The Moriah Story , Sydney: Playright Publishing, 2003.
• Jewish Life Down Under: The Flowering of Australian Jewry , Jerusalem, Institute of the World Jewish Congress, Policy Study No 21, 2001, 39.

Web links

• Associate Professor Suzanne Rutland on usyd.edu.au