Jews in New Zealand Jewish businessmen since 1829 - gold rushes
- immigration restrictions - newspapers - Herzl Zionism
Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971: New Zealand, vol. 12, col. 1129,
synagogue at Hokitika (1867), the first synagogue in New Zealand
from: Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971, vol. 12 presented by Michael
Palomino (2008) <NEW ZEALAND, member of the Commonwealth of
Nations in the S. Pacific. [Jewish businessmen in New Zealand:
Kororareka, Auckland] In 1829, some 60 years after the
rediscovery of New Zealand, the Sydney firm of Cooper and Levy
established itself in the South Island at Port Cooper
(Lyttleton) and Port Levy, a little to the north. Solomon Levy,
the Jewish partner, later became a benefactor of both Jewish and
Christian educational and charitable institutions. During the
next decade, other Jewish traders (col. 1127) began to arrive.
In 1830 Joseph Barrow Montefiore (a member of the English
*Montefiore family) from Sydney established Montefiore Brothers,
dealing largely in flax and whale oil. In 1