The Temple Society Heritage Page

News & Proceedings from the TSA Heritage Group

Activities

Notes on Meeting 15 February 2006 (pdf)
Notes on Meeting 7 September 2006 (pdf)
            Some pictures from the meeting

Books and Publications (click to open page)

SARONA BOOK LAUNCH
As advised in the March Templer Record, the book From Desert Sands to Golden Oranges has been published. The book will be launched on Sunday 24th April in the Bentleigh Hall, at 2.30pm.

All friends and members of the Templer Community as well as the wider community are invited to attend. The book will be available for purchase on that day. The price of the Sarona book is $60.
Other publications recently commissioned by the Heritage Group will also be available for purchase on that day.

Sarona Open Day  a series of pictures on the 2007 event in Tel Aviv

New Literature (click on cover picture to open)

The English translation of "Damals in Palaestina" is now available (see cover on left). The book is called "Memories of Palestine" and features 524 pages of personal anecdotes and 60 quality photos. It is available from the TSA Office in Melbourne. Cost: $A40 plus post & packaging.

Selected excerpts from the book are available by clicking on the cover picture at left (pdf).

 "The Case of the German Templers in Eretz-Israel",   TSA Heritage Group Publication
  No. 1, November 2006; a Supplement to the December/January Templer Record
  
  from "Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective" by Yossi Ben-Artzi

 THE WENNAGEL STORY  The fate of the Wennagel Families of Master Builders
 From the Black Forest, Germany the Templer Settlements in the Holy Land and onto Australia from 1699 – 2007,  by Irene Blaich in conjunction with Horst Blaich.
 Published by Trafford Publishing ISBN142512629-4, 2007
 Click on the Cover picture on the left for more information and for a preview of the book
 To order this book by E-Mail: info@trafford.com   or on line at www.trafford.com/07-0889 ,
 Telephone toll-free: 1888 232 4444 (USA and Canada)

SBS Radio has recorded an Interview with Helmut Glenk (author of the "Sarona Book") that was broadcast on Friday 12th Oct between 9-10am.and is now available on the Internet:
SBS Radio Sarona Interview with Helmut Glenk 
Click the link above for the SBS German Page, then in "Sarona - an Interview" click on "more..." for a short description and on "Play..." or on the headphone symbol for the actual Interview.
(please note, the Interview is a 20 minute audio session and requires a Broadband connection to download)

Is this Abram Dyck's Farmhouse?  Click for a series of photos

Templer Journey -- Fabric of Society
A Booklet about the making (and the story) of The Templer Journey, a Triptych Tapestry wall-hanging produced by volunteers of the Temple Society Australia. Funded with a three year grant from the City of Knox, the tapestry will (when finished) be wall-mounted in the Community Chapel in Bayswater for public display. Click on the picture on the left for a preview of the Introduction chapter of the booklet.  The official launch  of the Textile Mural "Templer Journey -- Fabric of Society" and its Companion Book "An Embroidered History" took place in the Templer Community Chapel Bayswater on 29 August 2009.. The "Templer Journey" is a pictorial representation of the turbulent history of the Templers, from their inception in the 1850s, their attempts at Utopia in the Holy Land and the Templer Diaspora to the four corners of the globe to the present. The Hon James Merlino MP, State Member for Monbulk Minister for Sport, Recreation, Youth Affairs and Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs representing the Victorian Government, and Cr Adam Gill (Dinsdale Ward) for the City of Knox, officiated at the Launch. See Official unveiling and Launch
The published version of the Companion Book, "An Embroidered History" has a much more professional finish than our early booklet attempts and can be purchased for $35 from the Temple Society Australia Office.

Is the Bible the Source of our Knowledge of God?
Lectures by Christian Rohrer, President of the Temple Society 1911-1934
Translated by Peter G. Hornung. Original title: Ist die Bibel die Quelle der Gotteserkenntnis?
Verlag der Zentralkasse der Tempelgesellschaft Ltd Jerusalem 1935
Published by Temple Society Australia, Melbourne 2008
Click on picture left to open a browser copy -- A full copy of the Supplement Booklet is available Here in pdf

The Boronia Templer Hall
A historic Picture Calendar produced in 2004 to promote greater awareness of the first community hall built by the Templers in Australia. Click on the coverpage on the left to open it

Sarona Garden
Good news from Israel. Click on the Logo on the left

Shattered Dreams at Kilimanjaro

Booklaunch in Bayswater, 2 March 2008. Click on the picture on the left for a series of photos from the event.

Templer Record Supplement February 2009 "Jugendgruppe"

click on picture for a full copy of the Booklet

The Gotthilf Wagner Story
Gotthilf Wagner was murdered 63 years ago. Here are two articles on the subject, prepared for the soon to be released “Exiled from the Holy Land – The loss of the Templer settlements in Palestine and deportation to Australia, 1941 – 1950” . We thank all those who contributed to making this book a real historical document, especially Sieger Hahn who compiled Gotthilf’s life story.  The book is presently under preparation for printing by our Publisher Trafford in Canada.
click on the picture for the Wagner Story

An Introduction to a new book:
Click on the picture for a preview of:

EXILED FROM THE HOLY LAND
The Loss of the Templer Settlements in Palestine, 1941 to1950
Compiled by Horst Blaich

Templer Record Supplement No 4, June 2009, "G. Ruff Reminiscences"

Recollections written by Gottlieb Ruff in 1974
Edited by Helmut Ruff and translated fro the German by Peter Hornung.

Photos courtesy of the Ruff Family and Horst Blaich.

Click on the thumbnail picture on the left for a pdf file of the complete supplement

updated 26 September 2009 webmaster