Subject	Australia–Emigration and immigration—History
	Emigration and immigration
	Voyages and travels
	Yiddish language
	Diaries
	Melbourne (Vic.)
Category	1. Settlement
	2. National boundaries
	3. World War I
	4. World War II
	5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Author	Saks, Israel
Current Holder	Jewish Museum of Australia
Date	1881
Item Number	4802.1
Access Rights	Digitised
Country Of Origin	Germany
	Turkey
	Palestine
	Australia
Place	Melbourne
Language	Yiddish
	English
Description From Source	225 x 175 mm, ink on paper Diary of Israel Saks (b.25/8/1881, Romanovska – d. 11/2/1955, Melbourne), titled ‘Memories’, written in Yiddish with partial translation to English. Diary is accompanied by an additional typescript translation with annotations by Israel Saks’s daughter, Rose. Content is biographical with references to family and to his Russian origins in the German colony of Romanovska , pogroms and persecution, his migration journey from Turkey, then on to Palestine and ultimately arriving in Australia in 1927. Israel Saks was a distinguished communal worker – he took leading roles in many Jewish organisations: Keren Ytayesod, JNF, the first Zionist movements in Melbourne Wefare Society, Bialik School and later Mount Scopus College where three of his grandchildren were amongst the first lot of students. Partial annotated translation is attached under Multimedia tab.
Physical Format	Diaries
	Typescripts
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/9QUF7HC8/