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Haurongo: Astor, Alexander

Jewish religious leaders

Jewish religious leaders

This photograph, probably taken in the 1930s, brings together several generations of New Zealand rabbis, including Alexander Astor (back row, right), Herman van Staveren (front row, left), and Samuel Aaron Goldstein (front row, right).

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-0339-1/2; G

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.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ann J. Gluckman. 'Astor, Alexander', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/211/jewish-religious-leaders-0 (accessed 4 June 2026).