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This deals with the history of the Jews in New Zealand. ==Joel Samuel Polack and Abraham Hort== Anglo-Jewish traders were among the whalers, missionaries and other Europeans who explored New Zealand in the earliest decades of the 1800s. Joel Samuel Polack, the best known and most influential of them, arrived in 1831.〔http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1p18/polack-joel-samuel〕 Polack, an English-born Jew whose father, a painter and engraver, had come from Amsterdam in the mid 1700s, was himself an artist. He opened a general store at Kororareka in the Bay of Islands where his respect for the Maori people's language and culture earned him unique access and insights as a trader. On his return to England in 1837, he wrote two vividly documented books, with many of his own illustrations and woodcuts, about his 1831-37 travels in New Zealand. In addition to being entertaining travel guides to new tastes (hearts of palm, for example), sights and sounds (Maori tattoos, exotic birds), etc, his books were a rallying cry for commercial development, specifically for flax production which he believed was possible on a lucrative scale.〔(Polack, Joel Samuel – Biography ) Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand〕 In 1838, in testimony to a House of Lords inquiry into the state of the islands of New Zealand, Polack warned that unorganised European settlement would destroy Māori culture, and advocated planned colonisation.〔Jocelyn Chisholm. 'Polack, Joel Samuel', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 30-Oct-2012 URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/biographies/1p18/polack-joel-samuel〕 The British government responded, along with the speculative New Zealand Company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The colonisation of New Zealand – First European arrivals )〕 among whose financial backers was the wealthy Anglo-Jewish Goldsmid family. Anticipating (wrongly, as it turned out, at least in the next few decades) that land would increase in value, they encouraged a flood of subsidised mostly English and Scottish emigrants. Abraham Hort, Jr, related by family and business ties〔(Barend Ber Elieser Salomons Cohen-Kampen )〕 to the Mocatta & Goldsmid bank, arrived in Wellington on the barque ''Oriental'' on 31 January 1840〔url: http://www.shadowsoftime.co.nz/oriental.html〕 accompanied by two brothers he employed as cabinet makers, Solomon and Benjamin Levy. These were the first recognisably Jewish names in this early wave of New Zealand settlement. Hort's business〔(Papers Past — New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator — 31 October 1840 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 )〕 and civic leadership was quickly recognised in the new colony. Within months of his arrival he was elected one of the two constables for Wellington's fledgling police force.〔New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume 18, Issue 2, 18 April 1840, Page 3〕 Hort was a promoter of early Wellington civic affairs, Jewish and non-Jewish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Jews in New Zealand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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