ORNSTEIN, ABRAHAM FREDERICK
- ORNSTEIN, ABRAHAM FREDERICK
- ORNSTEIN, ABRAHAM FREDERICK (1836–1895), London-born pioneer
minister in Australia and South Africa. (His surname is sometimes
spelled "Ornstien.") After serving the Melbourne Hebrew congregation
(1866–75) and being principal of Aria College for training Jewish
ministers in Portsmouth, England, Ornstein went to Cape Town in 1882 and
headed the congregation there for 13 years. He was particularly
interested in education. His efforts to establish a Jewish public school
in Cape Town did not meet with enough support, so in 1884 he started a
private "Collegiate School" for Jewish boys, which provided both Jewish
and general education. Its boarding house also accepted girls from other
schools in town. Ornstein ran the school successfully. It closed down
after his death. Despite his abilities and sense of dedication, his
ministry was marred by a number of controversies resulting from his
somewhat inflexible personality, and especially from the clash between
his "English" outlook and that of the Eastern European immigrants who
were arriving at the Cape in increasing numbers.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
L. Herrman, History of the Jews in South Africa (1935), 234,
257–66, 269; G. Saron and L. Hotz, The Jews in South Africa
(1955), 23–26, 28–31, 124; I. Abrahams, The Birth of a
Community (1955), index. ADD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: H.L. Rubinstein, Australia I, 256–57; M.
Turnbull, "Rev. Abraham Ornstien (sic)," in: Australian Jewish
Historical Society Journal, XII (1993–95), 443–66.
(Lewis Sowden)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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