From undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
TitelFrom undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
Forfatter
Call number940.5318/0544
Objektnummer10566c
UdgivelsesstedDetroit, Michigan, United States
UdgiverWayne State University Press
Udgivelsesår
2019
Pagineringpp72-90
MaterialeArticle
NoterArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp72-90
Beskrivelse
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