Abstract
Neither Rebecca Gratz nor Isaac Leeser ever traveled to the dusty of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. But their ideas did.1 Geelong was certainly no center of Australian Jewish life: the community mushroomed from ix Jews in 1848 to 128 Jews in 1861 before beginning a steady decline.1 Although a congregation began meeting for worship in 1849, and built a temporary synagogue in 1854, there was only intermittent service from a hazan and no regular supply of kosher meat. A ho telier, Benjamin Levien, served no pork at his hotel.3 His young daughter, Harriet, struggled to obey the dictates of Jewish law in this unpromis ing frontier environment. Geelong, she wrote, was a small town with very few Jews, and none of them well acquainted with our religion (that
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