The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust by Alba, Avril; Láníček, Jan;

Long description:

This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, including the preceding refugee crisis and the aftermath. It then traces the reverberations of these events in forms of representation, commemoration and memorialisation. Finally, chapters that contextualise Australian responses to the Holocaust within the longer history of colonialism in Australia bring the handbook into contemporary debates on the relationship between the Holocaust and genocide. The handbook thus brings together the now substantial research on Australia and the Holocaust into a single volume, whilst also augmenting this body of work through the inclusion of new and cutting-edge research by established and emerging scholars.

Chapters 21 and 26 are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Table of Contents:

1. Australia and the Holocaust: An Introduction.- Part 1. History.- 2. Australia and the Holocaust, 1933–1950s: An Intimate History.- 3. Dear Sir Rabbi: Letters from Refugees to Rabbi Falk, 1938–1939.- 4. German Communities in Australia and the Holocaust.- 5. Escape through the East: The Holocaust, Asian ‘Miracles’ and Australia.- 6. The Holocaust and the Transformation of the Leadership and Structure of the Australian Jewish Community, 1933–1948.- 7. ‘You Must Believe It Now’: Australian News Reporting of the Holocaust.- 8. The ‘Dunera Boys’: History, Memory and the Holocaust.- 9. A Passionate Campaigner for Jewish Causes and Social Justice: Bishop Charles Venn Pilcher.- 10. Australia, the Holocaust and Philosemitism.- 11. The Jewish Displaced Persons and Australia, 1945–1952.- 12. The Unwanted: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Response to Jewish Refugees before and after the Second World War.- Part 2. Reverberations.- 13. The Impact of Refugee and Survivor Migration on the Australian Jewish Community.- 14. Yiddish Melbourne.- 15. ‘One Has to Flee a Burning House’: Polish Jews Who Survived the Second World War in the Soviet Union.- 16. Haven for Holocaust Survivors: ‘Wanda Court’, A Melbourne Suburban Ethnography of the 1940s and ’50s.- 17. The Australian War Crimes Trials.- 18. Bearing Witness: Australian Holocaust Survivors Testifying in German Nazi War Crimes Trials.- 19. Disrupting Consensus Histories of Australia and the Holocaust: The Intersecting Journeys of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators.- 20. Historical and Contemporary Expressions of Holocaust Disinformation in Australia.- Part 3. Memory and Representation.- 21. Australian Holocaust Museums and the Intergenerational Transmission of Memory.- 22. Life Writing of Australian Holocaust Survivors.- 23. The Holocaust and Australian Fiction.- 24. Yiddish and Australian Holocaust Representation Yesterday and Today.- 25. The Holocaust in Australian Film.- 26. Imaging the Unimageable: Holocaust Representation in Australian Art, 1937 to the Present.- 27. Australian Holocaust Education: Looking Beyond the Classroom.- Part 4. Australia, the Holocaust and Genocide.- 28. Racial Nationalism in Nazi Germany and ‘White Australia’: A Eugenic Connection.- 29. The Context for Memory: Australia, Genocide and the Holocaust.- 30. ‘Genocide’ in Australia: History and Memory.- 31. William Cooper, Kristallnacht and the Politics of a Legacy.- 32. Control and Exclusion: Education Policy in Nazi Germany and Australia.- 33. Australia’s Response to Contemporary Genocides.