The Greek Jews of Australia, a friendship with Hellenic roots that carried on in the Antipodes
When I drove over to 91-year-old Elayne Hoffman’s Caulfield house in June 2021, she had heard that I was seeking to interview Jewish Australians with Greek heritage. Alert, hospitable and very thoughtful, Hoffmann was generous with her time and was happy to tell me about her family history. “My parents were both born in Salonika in Greece,” she said, “but they left Greece and took me with as a 6-month-old baby to Paris in search of better opportunities in 1927.” When the Hoffmann family immigrated from Greece, they left behind a country that had been the ancestral home for hundreds ...
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