RT Article
T1 ‘Jewish culture is inseparable from the struggle against reaction’: forging an Australian Jewish antifascist culture in the 1940s
JF Fascism
VO 9
IS 1/2
SP 34
OP 55
A1 Kaiser, Max
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1859499082
AB In the immediate postwar period Jewish communities worldwide sought to draw political lessons from the events of the Holocaust, the rise of fascism and the Second World War. A distinctive popular Jewish left antifascist politics developed as a way of memorialising the Holocaust, struggling against antisemitism and developing anti-racist and anti-assimilationist Jewish cultures. This article looks at the trilingual magazine Jewish Youth, published in Melbourne in the 1940s in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, as a prism through which to examine Jewish antifascist culture in Australia. Jewish Youth featured an oppositional political stance against antisemitism and fascism, tied often to Holocaust memorialisation; a conscious political and cultural minoritarianism and resistance to assimilation; and a certain fluctuating multilingualism, tied to its transnational situatedness and plurality of audiences.
K1 Antifascism
K1 Antisemitism
K1 Australia
K1 Jewish Youth (1946-1947)
K1 Jews
K1 Minor culture
DO 10.1163/22116257-09010003