1st Edition

Jewish Communal Advocacy in Post-War Australia

By Suzanne D. Rutland Copyright 2027
518 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. The book moves from local issues, including Holocaust survivor migration and antisemitism, to transnational regional... Read more

Part I: Introduction  1. Introduction: Australian Jewry to 1944  2. Structure of the Executive Council  Part II: National Issues  3. Jewish Immigration to Australia  4. Campaign against German migration  5. Providing a Financial Base: The Claims Conference  6. Nazis in Australia  7. Combatting Antisemitism  8. Anti-Vilification Legislation  9. Jewish Christian Relations, 1960–1980s  10. Developing Dialogue and Understanding, 1990s–2000s  11. Community relations  Part III: Regional Issues  12. Asia-Pacific  Part IV: International Issues  13. Changing Attitudes to Zionism  14. Lobbying the Australian Government on behalf of Israel  15. Hawke, Keating and Howard Years  16. The Campaign for Soviet Jewry  17. Oppressed Jewry  18. Relationship with the WJC  19. Claims Conference: Renewed payments and challenges  Part V: Epilogue: New Developments, 2008–2023  20. Professionalisation of the ECAJ  21. New Developments, 2010–2023  22. A New Watershed Period Post 7 October

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, edits the Sydney edition of the AJHS Journal, and written on issues relating to the Shoah, Israel, Soviet Jewry and Jewish education.