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Last updated: 26.09.20
17B Robe Street
St Kilda,Victoria
Australia 3182
St Kilda,Victoria
Australia 3182
Orwell (Demolished) 19 Robe Street
- History: 1945 The house was used for the RAN (Royal Australian Navy for rehabilitating soldiers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C199747 In the 1940s and 1950s the Bialystocker, Warsawer and Radomer Landsmanshaftn maintained separate refugee hostels in Robe Street St Kilda, Punt Road South Yarra. the Robe Street site was 19 Robe Street - the site of Orwell.The Landsmanshaftn were societies of immigrants who came from the same town or region. They were named for the members’ birthplace in Europe. In Melbourne they emerged with the arrival of Yiddish-speaking refugees. The earliest was the Bialystocker Centre, founded with the first wave of Yiddish immigrants in 1928, but they were given stronger impetus when Holocaust survivors settled in Australia. The Landsmanshaftn were integral to the new immigrants’ adjustment in their Australian home since they provided emotional, cultural, social and even financial support. At the same time, these organisations were important fund raising bodies for the Jewish Welfare Organisation and later for the United Israel Fund. In 1955 there were known to be scores of Landmanshaftn in Melbourne. Meetings were held in private homes, at the Kadimah and in a designated “home” such as the Bialystocker Centre.A journal, Der Landsman, published by the Federation of Polish Jews and the Federation of Landsmanshaftn in Australia, appeared regularly from December 1964 until September 1970 and occasionally after that until 1991. As the immigrant generation diminishes, the Landsmanshaftn have declined and dwindled. In 2010 the Bialystocker, Krakower, the Warsaw Centre, the Lodzer Centre, Zaglembier, Chelmer, Lomzer, Kalisher and Radomer Landsmanshaftn still exist in Melbourne. https://www.monash.edu/arts/acjc/yiddish-melbourne/organisations/landsmanshaftn
- Date Built: Approx 1892
- Demolished: Approx 1960
- First European Land Owner: 1845 1855 onwards Crown Land allotment 32 ownership M W Cantlon https://stkildahistory.org.au/our-collection/resources/parish 1873 J Vardy WW Sheet 8 Allotment 27 and 28 owner Yorke. House with verandahs to front and western side.
- Architects: Crouch & Wilson; Charles D'Ebro
- Owners and occupiers: Information from Melbourne Mansions Database Frederick Michaelis; Vic Rep Men, pg? 76-7. | 1892 S&M (1st entry) Michaelis, Frederick (Michaelis, Hallenstein & Co), Robe St (near se cnr Acland St) 1895,1900 S&M Michaelis, Frederick, 19 Robe St (ss bet Grey St & Acland St) | Argus, 1 July 1899, p3. Charles D'Ebro. Tenders wanted for 2 storey additions and alterations to 'Orwell', Robe St, St Kilda for F D Michaelis. | TS Note: Probable tender notice is BEMJ , 27 Dec 1890, sp 3. Crouch & Wilson. Tender accepted for large 2 storey residence in Robe St, St Kilda. Crouch & Wilson are the architects for other works for Mauritz Michaelis and Isaac Hallenstein but William Salway is also calling tenders for additions to a warehouse for Michaelis Hallenstein & Co in 1889. S&M 1905 TT, 19 Robe St (ss bet Grey St & Acland St) Thomas Tait query HH? confirmed Vic Rep Men at Home
- Description: To come
- Sources: Obituaries Australia Entry: http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/michaelis-frederick-david-14071 Melbourne Mansions Database: Miles Lewis.item 29
- Compiled by: To come