22-445: The Jewish Quarterly is an international Jewish publication that was based in the UK publication until 2021, the journal is now published by Australian publisher Morry Schwartz , With four issues released a year, The Jewish Quarterly focuses on issues of Jewish concern , but also has interests in wider culture and politics. The Jewish Quarterly was founded by Jacob Sonntag in 1953 and
44-405: A power of its own. How could truth and reason not prevail'? It was just a question of finding the right word, the right combination of words, and everything else would follow from it. Literature was a living thing for us, and the world of books knew no boundaries. We cherished the illusion that "you have only to will it and your dreams would cease to be fairy tales' ... We felt as a collective, we had
66-482: A sense of community, we felt called upon to add a link to the 'golden chain', handed to us by an earlier generation. Morry Schwartz Morris Zoltan Schwartz AM (born 1948) is an Australian publisher, formerly a property developer, based in Melbourne . He is the owner of Schwartz Publishing , the publisher of the influential Quarterly Essay , The Monthly , and The Saturday Paper . Morry Schwartz
88-642: A top of just 0.5 °C (32.9 °F). Falls Creek registered the lowest temperature ever recorded in Victoria (along with Omeo in June 1965) at −11.7 °C (10.9 °F) on 3 July 1970. In 2009, the Falls Creek resort plan proposed replacing the Gully triple chair with a gondola, having a capacity of 1800 passengers per hour and a speed of up to 6 metres per second. This proposal also made its appearance in
110-688: Is accessible by the Bogong High Plains Road from Mount Beauty all year round, though like all of Australia's snow resorts snow chains must be carried during winter and fitted if directed. The road continues across the High Plains and descends to meet the Omeo Highway north of the hamlet of Anglers Rest , however the route from this side is closed during the snow season. In summer both routes are popular with cyclists, and various cycling events are held that involve climbing to
132-476: Is an unincorporated area , directly administered by the government of Victoria, and surrounded by the Alpine Shire . Falls Creek is beginner/intermediate friendly, with almost 80% of the resort dedicated to these types of skiers/snowboarders. However, Australia's notoriously fickle snow conditions ensure that snowmaking using the water from the nearby Rocky Valley Lake is sometimes, particularly early in
154-476: The 2016 masterplan, but nothing has resulted as of yet. It is worth noting that a gondola this short would be considerably expensive, where it would be much more cost effective to replace a much longer lift. In 2021, Falls Creek invested AU$ 1.88 million into snowmaking machines. These new TechnoAlpin guns were placed along Wombats Ramble, Main Street and at the base of Drovers Dream. These snow machines now accompany
176-635: The Watergate towers in Docklands and the refurbishment of the Melbourne General Post Office . Several of their projects were designed by his stepdaughter, architect Zahava Elenberg . As of 2023 the company is no longer registered for GST. In 2009, he set up a real estate website, listing only houses for sale valued at over $ 1 million, called thehomepage.com.au. It was owned by start-up company Dog No. 7. Schwartz exited
198-755: The cattle's impact on the fragile alpine environment. Some of the cattlemen's huts still survive and are a tourist attraction in summer. Mount Bogong , Victoria's highest mountain, is nearby. The nearest town to Falls Creek is Mount Beauty. In 2019, Vail Resorts announced the acquisition of Falls Creek and Hotham for AU$ 174 million, and today they operate three of the largest ski resorts in Australia, including Perisher Ski Resort in New South Wales. Falls Creek has an alpine warm-summer humid continental climate ( Dfb ) with short, cool summers and cold, very snowy winters. On February 3 2023, Falls Creek reached
220-412: The first week of September. The resort features 4500 accommodation beds, and consequently a large number of restaurants, bars and nightclubs to entertain guests at night. Some apartments are privately owned, but the resort's management requires that they must be available for hire when not occupied. The resort also serves as a summer base to explore the national park surrounding the resort. Falls Creek
242-405: The nearest town being Mount Beauty , which is approximately 30 km (20 mi) away. The resort lies between an elevation of 1,500 and 1,830 m (4,921 and 6,004 ft) above sea level , with the highest lifted point at 1,780 m (5,840 ft). Skiing is possible on the nearby peak of Mount McKay at 1,842 m (6,043 ft), accessed by snowcat from the resort. The resort
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#1732798675569264-469: The next nine years. A visit from Baba’s sister, who had also survived the Holocaust and had made her home in Australia, convinced Andor that there were new opportunities on the other side of the world. Morry and his family arrived in Melbourne in 1958, the day before Rosh Hashanah . After finishing school at the selective Melbourne High , he studied architecture briefly before deciding he didn't have
286-566: The patience for six years of theory. He dropped out to travel, spending time in Indonesia and Cambodia, before returning to get into the film business. In 1973, with three friends, Schwartz began a company, Outback Press, the start of his publishing empire. But he also launched a concrete pouring company, Aardvark, which evolved into a property development group, called Pan Urban. In the 1980s he established Schwartz Publishing , mainly publishing American self-help books. Its all-time bestseller
308-549: The position and said that he would be stepping back from hands-on operations. In 1974 Schwartz moved into the construction and property development industry. His company, first named Aardvark, was later renamed Pan Urban. His business barely survived the 1989 property crash. Schwartz was the major stakeholder of Pan Urban in 2014. Its portfolio included the St Falls, Silverski and Huski hotels in Falls Creek, Victoria ,
330-585: The property development business in late 2017. Schwartz is married to gallery owner Anna Schwartz. Falls Creek, Victoria The Falls Creek Alpine Resort is an alpine ski resort in the Hume region in northeastern Victoria , Australia . It is located in the Alpine National Park in the Victorian Alps , approximately 350 kilometres (220 miles) by road from Melbourne , with
352-607: The resort, including the popular SCODY 3 Peaks Challenge (recently renamed to Falls Creek Peaks Challenge). Cross country After World War II , the Kiewa electrical scheme was started in the Kiewa River valley by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria . On land previously used only for summer cattle grazing in the natural alpine grasslands, the first ski lodge was built in 1948 by workers from
374-476: The scheme. The first lift, a rope tow , was built in 1951 and the first chairlift in Australia was constructed there in 1957. Falls Creek Post Office opened on 9 June 1958 (with telegraph and telephone facilities only until 1964). The high plains in the area were used for summer cattle grazing from 1851 until 2005, when the Government of Victoria did not renew grazing licences due to concerns about
396-524: The season, the main source of skiable snow. Consequently, like all Australian snowfields, Falls Creek's customer base is almost entirely domestic, however many international cross country skiers travel to Falls Creek for the Kangaroo Hoppet , Australia's Worldloppet event on the last Saturday of August and international snowboarders to Stylewars, The Australian Slopestyle Championships and Australia's highest sanctioned TTR World Tour event held in
418-561: Was Life's Little Instruction Book , with 300,000 copies sold. In the 1990s Schwartz Publishing set up the Black Inc imprint, publishing since 2001 the Quarterly Essay and, since 2005, The Monthly . On 1 March 2014 he launched The Saturday Paper , and in 2017 Australian Foreign Affairs, a journal discussing foreign policy . Schwartz was chairman of the board of Schwartz Media until December 2023, when he resigned
440-504: Was born around 1948 in Vámospércs , Hungary. His parents, Andor and Margaret (Baba) Schwartz, were both Holocaust survivors. Andor’s parents, brother and sister, and extended family were murdered during the Holocaust. Baba herself was a survivor of Auschwitz . He and his parents were smuggled across the border to Germany in 1949 when he was one year old, in order to migrate to the newly established state of Israel, where he spent most of
462-595: Was published in the UK, through to its hiatus in 2019. In 2021, the publication was relaunched by Australian publisher, Morry Schwartz, for international distribution. The current editor is Jonathan Pearlman, who also edits Australian Foreign Affairs for Schwartz Media. Previous editors have included Matthew Reisz, Elena Lappin, and Rachel Shabi . In 1974, Sonntag described the Jewish Quarterly : If I were asked how I envisaged The Jewish Quarterly when I started it more than twenty years ago, I would say that it
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#1732798675569484-429: Was to cultivate literary journalism in the best tradition of Central and Eastern Europe and, in particular, in the best tradition of Eastern European Jewish writing ... I belong to the generation which looked for a synthesis between our Jewishness and our Europeanism, between our nationalism and our socialism, between the particular and the universal ... Part of our upbringing was to revere the printed word, to adorn it with
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