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Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State

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The peer-reviewed series seeks to provide an international platform for new approaches to the study of modern Jewish history. Covering the period from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, th...
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  • 18 July 2022
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The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, this book examines South African Jewry and its ambivalent position as a minority within the privileged white minority. Grounded in research in over a dozen archives, the book provides a rich empirical account of the centrality of Holocaust memorialization to the community’s ongoing struggle against global and local antisemitism. Most of the chapters focus on white perceptions of the Holocaust and reveals the tensions between the white communities in the country regarding the place of collective memories of suffering in the public arena. However, the book also moves beyond an insular focus on the South African Jewish community and in very different modality investigates prominent figures in the anti-apartheid struggle and the role of Holocaust memory in their fascinating journeys towards freedom.

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Price: $90.99
Pages: 259
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Publication Date: 18 July 2022
ISBN: 9783110715255
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS000000 HISTORY / General, HIS001000 HISTORY / Africa / General, HIS035000 HISTORY / Study & Teaching
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Roni Mikel-Arieli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.