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From undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]From undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
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Call number940.5318/0544
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10566c
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Detroit, Michigan, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Wayne State University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2019
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp72-90
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp72-90
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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