Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Diaspora; a Journal of Transnational Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,3 (1996) 339-373
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
In the first half of the 20th century, Australian Jews, fearing categorization as a non-white racial group, preferred to define themselves as a group in terms of religion. A change in Australian policy (from the mid-1960s) - from assimilationism and the White Australia policy to multiculturalism - launched a process of ethnicization of Australian Jews, but posed a difficult problem for them. It was difficult for the Jews to represent themselves as an ethnic group because they had neither common origins nor a common language. Thus, in multicultural Australia, the Holocaust came to stand in for a national origin, providing Jews with a common reference point outside Australia, and even marked Jews as a European people because the Holocaust was a European event.
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