Black and white: Yiddish writers encounter indigenous Australia
TitleBlack and white: Yiddish writers encounter indigenous Australia
Author
Call number940.5318/0544
Object number10566e
Place of publicationDetroit, Michigan, United States
PublisherWayne State University Press
Year of publication
2019
Physical descriptionpp121-145
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp121-145
Description
Explores the extent to which the Holocaust changed Jewish perceptions of racism in Australia. States that before, during and after the Holocaust, writers continued to echo dominant European and Australian tropes of Aboriginal people as backward, uncivilized and racially inferior. Only in later decades did Australian Jewish perspectives begin to shift and to show solidarity with indigenous struggles