Kōrero: Jews

Early Jewish businesses

Early Jewish businesses

Jewish people were among the earliest traders, merchants and businessmen in New Zealand’s towns and cities. When gold was discovered on the West Coast in 1864, storekeepers and small business owners as well as gold seekers flocked to the area’s shanty towns. Jewish people who set up businesses in Hokitika advertised in the local newspapers. This photograph was taken in Reefton, Westland, in the late nineteenth century.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-025247; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Stephen Levine, 'Jews - 19th-century immigration', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/1232/early-jewish-businesses (accessed 20 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Stephen Levine, i tāngia i te 8 Feb 2005