Hilary L. Rubinstein

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Hilary L. Rubinstein
Born1946 (age 7879)
OccupationHistorian
NationalityAustralian
Alma materKeele University
Australian National University
Simmons University
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectMilitary history
Spouse William D. Rubinstein

Hilary L. Rubinstein (born 1946) is an Australian historian and author. She researches and writes on British naval history and modern Jewish history. [1] [2]

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Biography

She graduated with a BA(Hons) in economics, history and politics at Keele University in England, having spent a year on an exchange scholarship at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and subsequently gained a master's degree in librarianship from Simmons College, Massachusetts and a PhD in history for her thesis titled 'King Campbell: The public career of the Marquess of Argyll (1607?-1661)' from the Australian National University. [3]

A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she spent two years (1991–93) as a research fellow in history at the University of Melbourne and from 2013-15 was an adjunct research fellow at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University. She is editor of the Melbourne issues of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal. [4] She appeared in Bitter Herbs and Honey, directed by Monique Schwarz. Bitter Herbs and Honey gives a nostalgic look at Jewish settlement in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton. [5] She was the Australian correspondent for the American Jewish Committee's American Jewish Year Book from 1992 to 1996. In 2018 she took over from Suzanne Rutland as Australian representative on the editorial board of the Jewish Women's Archive's Shalvi/HymanEncyclopedia of Jewish Women project. [6]

She has contributed entries to both the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) and the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB). From 2007 - 2010 she served on the Council of the Navy Records Society, [7] for which she more recently edited the papers of Admiral Sir Philip Durham. Her latest book, a study of the sinking of HMS Royal George in 1782, has been described as "surely the definitive account of the sinking of the Royal George" and when researching it she made the original discovery that Admirals Kempenfelt and Rodney were cousins. [8] An aspect of it was featured on the popular History Hit website. [9]

In the 2021 Australia Day Honours, Rubinstein was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for 'service to community history through a range of roles'. [10]

Selected works

British history

Jewish history

Australian history

References

  1. "Australian Jewish Writers Database". Jewish Australia. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. "Hilary I. Rubenstein". Google Scholar. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  3. "Hilary L. Rubinstein". Amazon. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  4. "Victoria Executive Officers". Australian Jewish Historical Society. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  5. Stratton, David (2 December 1996). "Bitter Herbs and Honey". Variety. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  6. "About the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  7. https://www.navyrecords.org.uk/ Navy Records Society
  8. "An Avoidable Disaster? - Beating Tsundoku". Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  9. "The Only Female Survivor of the Sinking of the Royal George". History Hit. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  10. "Mazal Tov to our honourees". ajn.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 26 January 2021.