From undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa

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