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Biography
Suzanne Dorothy Rutland OAM (born 1946 in Sydney) is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. She specializes in the history of Australian Jews. Her work The Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia was first published in 1988. Her work The Jews in Australia was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. She has held numerous leadership positions, including president of the Australian Jewish Historical Society . The 19th annual conference of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies was convened and held in February 2007 by her. Dr. Rutland has also published a number of articles in the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies.
Academic career
Dr Rutland received her BA (Hons), MA (Hons), and PhD from University of Sydney. She also received a Diploma in Education from Sydney Teachers College.
Dr. Rutland is a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to Jewish education and history through a range of higher education development roles and as an author and academic, and to the promotion of interfaith relations".
Research
- Australian Jewry
- The Holocaust and Dutch Jewry
- Jewish Education in Australia
- Modern Israel
Lessons
- Jewish civilization, thought and culture
- The Australian Jewish Experience
- The evolution of Judaism in the New World
- Jerusalem: From Rome to Islam
Publications (selection)
- Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia , American edition :, New York: Holmes & Meier, 2001, i - xv, 479th
- With One Voice: the History of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies Sydney, Australian Jewish Historical Society, 1998, Ix, 405 (with co-author)
- If you will it, it is no dream: The Moriah Story , Sydney: Play Right Publishing., 2003
- Jewish Life Down Under: The Flowering of Australian Jewry, Jerusalem, Institute of the World Jewish Congress, Policy Study No. 21, 2001, the 39th
Australian Journal of Jewish Studies
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "Book review: Gabrielle Gouch's Once, Only the Swallows were Free." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume XXVII (p. 157). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 2013.
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "Whitlam's Shifts in Foreign Policy 1972-1975: Israel and Soviet Jewry." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume XXVI (p. 36). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 2012
- Rutland, Suzanne D. and Sol Encel. "Major Issues Facing the Jewish Community: Women's Perceptions." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume XX (p. 169). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 2006.
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "1948 and the Creation of the State of Israel: A Watershed Period for Australian Zionism." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume XVIII (p. 97). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 2004
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "Postwar Jewish 'Boat People' and Parallels with the Tampa Incident." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume XVI (p. 159). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 2002.
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "The State of Jewish Education in Australia's Jewish Day Schools." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume XIV (p. 78). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 2000.
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "'Our Children Will Be Our Guarantors': Child Survivors in Australia." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume VIII, Number 1 (p. 74). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 1994.
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "'Are You Jewish?' Postwar Jewish Immigration to Australia, 1945-1954." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume V, Number 2, (p. 35). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. 1991
- Rubinstein, W. D., Paul Bartrop and Suzanne D. Rutland. "The Future of Australian Jewish Historiography: A Panel Discussion." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 0 No. 0 Volume 3, No. 1, Issue 4 (p. 29). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. July 1989
- Rutland, Suzanne D. "Australia and Refugee Migration, 1933-1945: Consensus or Conflict." Australian Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 2, No. 2, Issue 3 (p. 77). Australian Association for Jewish Studies. December, 1988.