Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State

Roni Mikel-Arieli

ISBN 10: 3111521400 / ISBN 13: 9783111521404

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Oldenbourg Jun 2024, 2024

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Neuware -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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State
• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Oldenbourg Jun 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3111521400
• ISBN 13: 9783111521404
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 154H x 17D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 154 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 418 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Roni Mikel-Arieli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.