Black and white: Yiddish writers encounter indigenous Australia
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Black and white: Yiddish writers encounter indigenous Australia
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0544
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10566e
[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]pp121-145
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp121-145
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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