Loss, trials, and compassion: the music of Australia's Jewish refugees - The Conversation AU

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Loss, trials, and compassion: the music of Australia's Jewish refugees The Conversation AU After the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, Jewish refugee applications to Australia soared to over 10,000. Australia's immigration policy at the time was clear: in 1937 Prime Minister Joe Lyons wrote that “our population is 99.1% of British ...

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