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Judaism - 2006

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Who's Who in the Time of Jesus   Read Transcript

21/05/2006
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? Why was James the Brother of Jesus airbrushed out of history? Geza Vermes, described as 'the greatest Jesus scholar of his generation', has compiled a handy guide.

Sidney Myer: For the Common Good   Read Transcript

26/02/2006
Sidney Myer, founder of the Myer Emporium in Melbourne in 1911, never forgot the opportunities that Australia gave him as a penniless migrant.

Ikey Solomon, Another Australian Icon?   Read Transcript

29/01/2006
Charles Dickens' Fagin in Oliver Twist is one of the most disagreeable Jewish characters in English literature. The man on whom Dickens partly based him was Ikey Solomon.

The Kimberley Plan   Read Transcript

15/01/2006
Melbourne journalist Leon Gettler takes us to the 1930s when the Kimberley region in Western Australia was proposed as a place of refuge for Europe's Jews.