Delve into a treasure trove of Melbourne Jewish history – the Kadimah Annual Reports.  Explore the political, social and cultural movements of the past 110 years, or dig deeper into particular events and activities. The description of balls, fundraisers, commitment to welfare, the significance of Yiddish, the evolution of the David Herman theatre and youth events demonstrate how the community, connected through the Kadimah, established itself in Melbourne.

It’s all there in the Reports.  And because the Reports are searchable* you can discover whether your ‘mishpuke’ found a ‘home away from home’ at the Kadimah.

Once you have clicked on the report you would like to view, it will open in a new tab within your web browser.

You can search the .pdf document directly in your web browser by using the inbuilt search function, generally Edit-Find-Find… in the menu or Control-F (Command-F for Mac).

Alternatively, you can download the .pdf document and search it directly in Adobe Acrobat. We have included examples of how this works in Chrome and Safari below. Unfortunately we cannot include instructions for all browsers, so have used two of the most popular in our examples.

In Chrome you can download the document using the download icon in the top right hand corner of the .pdf viewer (figure 1 below). In Safari you can hover your mouse at the bottom of the document until a number of icons appear and click on the middle icon to open the document directly in Adobe Acrobat (figure 2 below).