Was It Ever So?: Anti-Semitism in Australia 1860–1950?

Autor:	Rodney Gouttman
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	History business.industry Project commissioning media_common.quotation_subject Assertion Persona Criminology Publishing The Holocaust Phenomenon Reading (process) Prejudice business media_common
Zdroj:	Humanities Research.
ISSN:	1834-8491 1440-0669
DOI:	10.22459/hr.xii.01.2005.06
Popis:	In her award-winning book, 'Reading the Holocaust', Inga Clendinnen insists that 'Australian anti-Semitism is a pathology of the periphery'. Though this remains a popular view, this article will discuss the validity of this assertion for the years 1860-1950. It will be argued that while in this epoch the problem of anti-Semitism in Australia never approached the virulence experienced elsewhere, the fear that this odious prejudice could break out at any time also had a profound and defining effect on the behaviour of Australia's Jews. Though commentators have mentioned this phenomenon in passing, they rarely explain it and merely compare it to scenarios overseas, leaving one to conclude that Australia has always been a safe haven for Jews. To leave the observation there is to provide few insights into the history of anti-Semitism in Australia and its impact on the public persona of Australian Jewry both on the individual and the communal levels.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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