From undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
TitleFrom undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
Author
Call number940.5318/0544
Object number10566c
Place of publicationDetroit, Michigan, United States
PublisherWayne State University Press
Year of publication
2019
Physical descriptionpp72-90
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp72-90
Description
In the 1930s and '40s Jews in South Africa were subject to virulent Nazi-inspired racism emanating from the Afrikaner nationalist right. With the implementation of apartheid in 1948, Jews were "divested of their racial essence" in order to be incorporated into the white ruling order. The "Jewish question" disappeared and the Prime Minister lauded South African Jews as a model community