Raisins and Almonds (19 page)

If anyone would like to duplicate my research, here are my sources. I have made one deliberate anachronism: I moved the Society restaurant to Bourke Street four years early.

u/r = unknown reference–I had given the book back before I noted the reference.

Album of Melbourne Views
1925 (author's collection)

Amirah: An Un-Australian Childhood
Amirah Inglis, Heinemann, Melbourne 1983

The Australian Jewish Herald
20 September 1928

A Book of Household Management
Mrs Beeton Ward Lock, London 1901

The Book of Werewolves
Sabine Baring-Gould, Causeway Books, New York 1973

Bridging Two Worlds: The Jews and Italians in Carlton
Arnold Zable et al., catalogue, Museum of Victoria undated

The Castle of Otranto
H. Walpole, Penguin Classics, London 1989

Celebrate Jewish Festivals
Angela Wood, u/r

Dawn of Magic
L. Pauwels and J. Bergier, Panther, London 1964

Dictionary of Alchemy
M. Haeffner, Aquarian Press, London 1991

Education of Hyman Kaplan
L. Rosten, Penguin, New York 1968

Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival
C. Mcintosh, Rider, London 1972

Experimental Magic
J. Brennan, Samuel Weiser, New York 1981

Fortune Telling
B. Rakoczi, Man Myth and Magic, London 1970

From Moses to Qumran
H.H. Rowley, Lutterworth Press, London 1963

The Heir of Udolpho
Mrs Radcliff, Penguin Classics, London 1981

The Holy Bible
, King James edition

The Holy Kabbalah
A.E. Waite, Oracle, London 1996

Jewels and Ashes
Arnold Zable, u/r

The Jewish Problem
Louis Golding, Penguin, London 1938

The Jews in Victoria
Hilary L. Rubenstein, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1986

The Joys of Yiddish
Leo Rosten, Penguin, New York 1959

Living Traditions
I. Becher, Mallard Press, New York 1993

Man, Myth and Magic, an encyclopedia
ed. R. Cavendish, Purnell, London 1972

Melbourne Markets 1841-1879
u/r, State Library

Melmoth the Wanderer
Sebastian Maturin, Penguin Classics, London 1989

Murder Australian Style
Jim Main, Unicorn Books, Melbourne 1980

The Murdered Magicians
Peter Partner, Crucible Press, London 1987

The Mystical Quabbalah
Dion Fortune, Aquarian Press, London 1987

Natural Rubber and the Synthetics
T. Tryon, u/r Bailleu Library, Melbourne University

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
ed. I. Wigoder, W. H. Allen, London 1977

Paracelsus: Magic into Science
H. Pachter, Collier, New York 1961

The Religions of Man
H. Smith, Perennial Library, New York 1958

The Return of Hyman Kaplan
L. Rosten, Penguin, New York 1970

Teyve's Daughters
Sholom Aleichem, trans. Frances Butwin, Crown, New York 1969

Trial and Error: an autobiography
Chaim Weizman, Hamish hamilton, London 1949

The Torah
D. Charing, Mallard, New York 1994

The World's Great Religions
Time Life, New York 1986

Maps and journeys—the City of Melbourne, Carlton

film:
Bitter Almonds: The Jews in Melbourne

alav ha-sholom
(m) or
aleha ha-sholem
(f): may he/she rest in peace

bubelah
: baby

dreck
: rubbish, dirt

feh!:
an exclamation of disgust

gevalt
: (equivalent to) enough!

Goldene Medina
: the Golden Land, Australia

gonif
: a thief

Gottenyu
: God or Lord

Kaddish
: prayer for the dead

kasha
: cooked cereal

kasheh
: questions

mazik:
a clever little devil

megillah
: the whole long tale

meshuggener:
an idiot, a fool

meshumed
: an apostate

mezuzah
: a charm placed on a doorway to sanctify a house

miesse meshina:
an ugly fate or death

mitzvah
: a blessing, a good deed

mispocheh
: family

nu
: a multitude of meanings (sim to eh? in Greek or Ar in Australian)

nudzing:
nagging

schlemiel:
an idiot

schlimazl
: an unlucky idiot

shah
: silence

Shabbes:
the Sabbath

shalom aleichem
: Peace be unto you—a greeting

shemozzl:
a mixed-up mess

shiksa
: a non-Jewish girl

shivah
: a period of mourning

Torah
: the Book of Laws, the bible

zayde
: grandfather