Solomon Joseph

http://www.jhse.org/book/export/article/17991

Henry Joseph and Solomon Joseph, decided to settle in Australia. They arrived in Victoria in the 1850s with the goldrush in full spate, joining many other immigrants, both Jewish and non- Jewish, attracted by the same prospects. However, the two brothers were not typical of the Jewish arrivals of this period. Mostly the Jews did not perform the actual gold- digging or even handle the metal directly. In the main they were involved in the provision of entertainment, hotel accommodation, and supply services to the diggers.

Solomon Joseph took up journalism shortly after his arrival in Australia and at first he devoted himself specifically to Jewish journal- ism. He edited a paper in Melbourne called The Australian Israelite, which was warmly welcomed by the then Chief Rabbi, Hermann Adler. However, this paper failed for lack of financial support and ceased publication after interminable parochial political wranglings. After this, Solomon Joseph, with the help of his wife's family, bought a paper in Tam- worth, New South Wales, where he then settled for the rest of his life. He had married Caroline Cohen, who came from an enterprising and vigorous Jewish family of some interest. Her grandfather, Emanuel Hyman Cohen, was the founder of the Brighton Jewish community and her uncle was Levy Emanuel Cohen, a Brighton journalist of considerable ability. Among her brothers were Nathan Cohen (1842-1910) and Judge Henry Emanuel Cohen (1840-1912), the former a Mayor of Tamworth and the latter one of the most prominent legal personalities in New South Wales. It may be of some interest to students of longevity to note that Nathan Cohen's daughter, Ida Cohen, only died earlier this year [1970] at the age of 102. Solomon Joseph's newspaper in Tamworth is run today by his great-nephew, Harold Joseph (son of Albert Joseph), and there are no likely successors to him from the family.

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Solomon and Caroline Joseph had a large family, of whom Hannah Joseph (1872-1940) married Octave Levy (1870-1949), the eighth son of the Hon. L. W. Levy, M.L.C. (1815- 1885). This Levy family is very much inter- twined with the history of Australian Jewry and has also made large contributions to general Australian development. Among its 30 members are the brothers Barnet and Solomon Levey already mentioned and its genealogy is linked in innumerable different ways with that of the family of Burnett and Sierlah Cohen, who may be regarded as the arch- ancestors of Australian Jewry even as Levi Barent Cohen is of Anglo-Jewry. Octave and Hannah Levy's son is Benn Levy*, the play- wright, and one of their grandsons, Stephen Gentilli, is married to a further descendant of Burnett and Sierlah Cohen. Hannah Levy's nephew is Mr. Bill Jessop, of New Jersey, U.S.A., to whom I am much indebted for many of the genealogies I have studied and for much helpful advice in disentangling so many of the complicated ramifications. An- other member of the Levy family in England is Mr. E. J. B. Rose, the Director of the Institute of Race Relations.

http://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/joseph-solomon-20448

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