Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Menorah; Australian Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,1 (1988) 55-65
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Based on the author's M.A. thesis (Victoria University of Wellington, 1986). Discusses the influence of antisemitism on New Zealand's Jewish immigration policy. Quotes official documents indicating that policy-makers were generally bigots and racists, primarily concerned with maintaining ethnic homogeneity. They discriminated against Jewish refugees who were considered unassimilable and occupationally unsuitable, and a potential economic threat. Between 1933-39 only 1,000 Jews were admitted. There was no quota system and success in gaining a permit depended on chance, contacts, and money. Dormant antisemitism, part of the cultural heritage of Britain, was aroused from 1933 by German propaganda. Discusses regulations for control of aliens enacted during the war. Restrictions on Jewish immigration continued after the war, despite a national consensus that the population should be increased.
Note:
Another version appeared in "False Havens; the British Empire and the Holocaust" (1995).
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