1st Edition

Jewish Communal Advocacy in Post-War Australia

By Suzanne D. Rutland Copyright 2027
522 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

522 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A product of four decades of research, this volume examines the major issues that the Australian Jewish community has addressed since the end of World War II, focusing on the efforts of the community’s peak representative organisation, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. This book moves from local issues, including Holocaust survivor migration and antisemitism, to transnational, regional... Read more

Part I: Introduction  1. Introduction  2. Structure and Leadership  Part II: National Issues  3. Australian Government Policies to Jewish Immigration, 1945–60  4. Nazis Unwelcome! The Campaign against German Migration  5. Creating a Financial Base for the Community, 1952–80s  6. The Nazi War Crimes Debate in Australia  7. Combatting Antisemitism  8. Issues of Racial and Religious Vilification  9. Jewish Christian Relations  10. Developing Dialogue and Understanding  11. Community Relations  Part III: Regional Issues  12. Asia-Pacific Region  Part IV: International Issues  13. Changing Attitudes to Zionism  14. Advocacy to the Australian Government in Support of Israel  15. Hawke, Keating and Howard Years  16. Australian Jewry’s Campaign for Soviet Jews, 1958–89  17. Oppressed Jewry  18. Relationship with the WJC  19. Claims Conference: Renewed Payments and Challenges  Part V: New Developments, 2008–25  20. Professionalisation of the ECAJ  21. New Developments, 2010–23  22. A New Watershed Period Post-7 October  Presidents' List  Index

Biography

Suzanne D. Rutland (OAM, PhD), Professor Emerita, the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, is a renowned Australian Jewish historian. She has published widely on Australian Jewish history, edited the Sydney edition of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal and written on issues relating to the Shoah, Israel, Soviet Jewry and Jewish education.