Hilary L. Rubinstein

Hilary L. Rubinstein (born 1946) is an Australian historian and author. She researches and writes on British naval history and modern Jewish history.[1][2]

Biography

She graduated with a BA(Hons) in economics, history and politics at Keele University in England, having spent a year on an exchange scholarship at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and subsequently gained a master's degree in librarianship from Simmons College, Massachusetts and a PhD in history for her thesis titled 'King Campbell: The public career of the Marquess of Argyll (1607?-1661)' from the Australian National University.[3]

A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she spent two years (1991–93) as a research fellow in history at the University of Melbourne and from 2013-15 was an adjunct research fellow at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University. She is an editor of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal.[4] She appeared in Bitter Herbs and Honey, directed by Monique Schwarz, a nostalgic look at Jewish settlement in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton.[5] She was Australian correspondent for the American Jewish Committee's American Jewish Year Book from 1992 to 1996 inclusive.[6] In 2018 she took over from Suzanne Rutland as Australian representative on the editorial board of the Jewish Women's Archive's Shalvi/HymanEncyclopedia of Jewish Women project.[7]

She has contributed entries to both the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) and the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB). From 2007-2010 she served on the Council of the Navy Records Society,[8] for which she more recently edited the papers of Admiral Sir Philip Durham. Her latest book, a study of the sinking of HMS Royal George in 1782, has been described as "surely the definitive account of the sinking of the Royal George".[9] An aspect of it was featured on the popular History Hit website.[10]

On 26 January 2021, Rubinstein was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for 'service to community history through a range of roles'.[11]

Selected works

British history
  • Captain Luckless: James, first Duke of Hamilton (1606-49) Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1975.
  • 'Jewish Emancipation', in A Reader's Guide to British History (ed. David Loades), vol. 3, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.
  • Trafalgar Captain: Durham of the Defiance, Stroud, Glos., Tempus, 2005.
  • Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George, Barnsley, Yorks., Seaforth, 2020.
  • The Durham Papers: Selections from the Papers of Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham G.C.B. (1763-1845) London, Navy Records Society, 2019.
  • 'Philip Charles Durham', in Nelson's Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials (ed. Peter Hore), Barnsley, Yorks., Seaforth for The 1805 Club, 2015.

Jewish history
  • The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750 (co-author), London and New York, Routledge, 2002.
  • The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (co-author), London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  • Philosemitism: Admiration and Support in the English-Speaking World for Jews, 1840-1939 (co-author), Basingstoke and New York, Macmillan, 1999.
  • The Jews in Victoria, 1835-1985, Melbourne, Jewish Museum of Australia, 1985; Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1986.
  • Chosen: The Jews in Australia, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1987.
  • The Jews in Australia: A Thematic History Volume One: 1788-1945, Port Melbourne, Heinemann, 1990.
  • A Time to Keep. The Story of Temple Beth Israel: 1930 to 2005 (co-editor ), Melbourne: Hybrid Publishers, 2005.
  • 'Australian Jewry: a brief historical overview', in When Jews and Christians Meet: Australian Essays Commemorating Twenty Years of Nostra Aetate (ed. J. W. Roffey) Melbourne, Victorian Council of Christians and Jews, 1985.
  • 'From Jewish non-distinctiveness to group invisibility: Australian Jewish identity and responses, 1830–1950', in Jews in the Sixth Continent (ed. William Rubinstein), Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1987.
  • 'Jewish Parliamentarians in Australia, 1849 to the Present', in Jews and Australian Politics (eds. G. B. Levey and P. Mendes), Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2004.
  • 'A pioneering philosemite: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (1790-1846) and the Jews' ('Lady Magnus Lecture' to the Jewish Historical Society of England), Jewish Historical Studies, vol.35 (1996-1998), pp. 103–118.
  • 'Early Manifestations of Holocaust Denial in Australia,' Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, vol. 14, part 1, 1998, pp. 93–108

Australian history
  • Menders of the Mind: a history of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 1946-96 (co-author), Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • 'Empire loyalism in inter-war Victoria', Victorian Historical Journal, vol.70, no.1, June 1999, pp. 67–83.
  • 'A gross discourtesy to His Majesty': the campaign within Australia, 1930–31, against Sir Isaac Isaacs' appointment as Governor-General', in Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, vol.14, no.3, Nov 1998, pp. 425–58.
  • 'Thomas Jerome Kingston Bakhap', in The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, vol.1, Carlton South, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2000.

References
  1. "Australian Jewish Writers Database". Jewish Australia. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  2. "Hilary I. Rubenstein". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  3. "Hilary L. Rubinstein". Amazon. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  4. https://www.ajhs.com.au/advanced-search/
  5. Stratton, David (1996-12-02). "Bitter Herbs and Honey". Variety. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  6. http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1996_11_Australia.pdf
  7. "About the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  8. https://www.navyrecords.org.uk/ Navy Records Society
  9. http://hamsterwrangler.com/beating-tsundoku/an-avoidable-disaster/
  10. "The Only Female Survivor of the Sinking of the Royal George". History Hit. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  11. "Mazal Tov to our honourees". ajn.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
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