From undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
TitelFrom undesirable to unassimilable: the racialization of the "Jew" in South Africa
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0544
Objectnummer10566c
Plaats van uitgaveDetroit, Michigan, United States
UitgeverWayne State University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2019
Pagina'spp72-90
MateriaalArtikel
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp72-90
Beschrijving
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