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Zelda Rosenbaum

Zelda Rosenbaum was part of the founding committee of the Museum. She was responsible for the very first exhibitions the museum mounted – Judaica in the Myer Mural Hall in 1979 and Holocaust in the Tramways building in 1980. She co-curated the exhibition which formally opened the Museum in its original premises at the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation’s Toorak Road synagogue: Art & Architecture of the Synagogue was awarded the state and federal Museum of the Year Award for the best exhibition in 1983. Zelda was co-Chairman of the Museum together with the late Naomi Gross in 1982. Until 2000, Zelda has held the roles of co-Chairman or Chairman, co-President or President of the Jewish Museum of Australia. It is hard to catalogue the actual contributions Zelda has made to the museum. Zelda and her husband Maurice’s most beautiful and gracious home has been the venue for: Volunteer luncheons, Gala luncheons, musical evenings, lectures, fundraising events, executive meetings, parties. Zelda, with Diana Opat, organised the annual luncheon for nearly twenty years. She has indeed organised all the major events of the Museum – openings, anniversary celebrations. This she has done with a flair and elegance which have become by extension a hallmark of our functions. And since 2001 she has headed the marvellous Events Committee which presents a wonderful and imaginative array of events and raises at least $100,000 per annum. With her erstwhile doughty partner June Helmer, she spent sleepless nights discussing and searching for ways to purchase a property – this property – which is now our home – the Gandel Centre of Judaica. With her later partner Sandy Benjamin she conceived of ways to improve the museum and its displays. Zelda is in essence the mother of our museum, or even more accurately the midwife. Zelda has cared for and nurtured every volunteer who has given of her or himself generously to build this place. Talented and clever, in her other life Zelda Rosenbaum is a film producer, responsible for films as diverse as the Holocaust oral history, Proud to Live; Rembetika the Blues of Greece; The Adventures of the Bush Patrol;The Balanced Particle Freeway; Flights Across the Never Never; Ratbag Hero and The Caterpillar Wish. At the museum she has contributed artistically, particularly in producing a number of our multimedia programs, guiding exhibition content, and providing ever new ideas for us to explore and develop into programs. Zelda received an OAM in 2000 in recognition of her services to the museum. She received the award for Fundraiser Volunteer from the Fundraising Institute of Australia (Vic) in 2006. But her role in shaping the Jewish Museum of Australia is immeasurable. In 2008 Zelda Rosenbaum retired from the Executive Committee of the Museum but Zelda is remaining as Coordinator of the Events Committee and as consultant to the Executive Committee. She has also accepted the position of Life President.
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Zelda Rosenbaum

Zelda Rosenbaum was part of the founding committee of the Museum. She was responsible for the very first exhibitions the museum mounted – Judaica in the Myer Mural Hall in 1979 and Holocaust in the Tramways building in 1980. She co-curated the exhibition which formally opened the Museum in its original premises at the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation’s Toorak Road synagogue: Art & Architecture of the Synagogue was awarded the state and federal Museum of the Year Award for the best exhibition in 1983.

Zelda was co-Chairman of the Museum together with the late Naomi Gross in 1982. Until 2000, Zelda has held the roles of co-Chairman or Chairman, co-President or President of the Jewish Museum of Australia.
It is hard to catalogue the actual contributions Zelda has made to the museum. Zelda and her husband Maurice’s most beautiful and gracious home has been the venue for: Volunteer luncheons, Gala luncheons, musical evenings, lectures, fundraising events, executive meetings, parties.

Zelda, with Diana Opat, organised the annual luncheon for nearly twenty years. She has indeed organised all the major events of the Museum – openings, anniversary celebrations. This she has done with a flair and elegance which have become by extension a hallmark of our functions. And since 2001 she has headed the marvellous Events Committee which presents a wonderful and imaginative array of events and raises at least $100,000 per annum.

With her erstwhile doughty partner June Helmer, she spent sleepless nights discussing and searching for ways to purchase a property – this property – which is now our home – the Gandel Centre of Judaica. With her later partner Sandy Benjamin she conceived of ways to improve the museum and its displays. Zelda is in essence the mother of our museum, or even more accurately the midwife.

Zelda has cared for and nurtured every volunteer who has given of her or himself generously to build this place.

Talented and clever, in her other life Zelda Rosenbaum is a film producer, responsible for films as diverse as the Holocaust oral history, Proud to Live; Rembetika the Blues of Greece; The Adventures of the Bush Patrol;The Balanced Particle Freeway; Flights Across the Never Never; Ratbag Hero and The Caterpillar Wish. At the museum she has contributed artistically, particularly in producing a number of our multimedia programs, guiding exhibition content, and providing ever new ideas for us to explore and develop into programs.

Zelda received an OAM in 2000 in recognition of her services to the museum. She received the award for Fundraiser Volunteer from the Fundraising Institute of Australia (Vic) in 2006. But her role in shaping the Jewish Museum of Australia is immeasurable.

In 2008 Zelda Rosenbaum retired from the Executive Committee of the Museum but Zelda is remaining as Coordinator of the Events Committee and as consultant to the Executive Committee. She has also accepted the position of Life President.