Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948–1994)

Roni Mikel-Arieli

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Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State

Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948–1994)

Roni Mikel-Arieli

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 10 | New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: Holocaust Memory in Apartheid South Africa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1 Nazism, Afrikaner Nationalism and the ‘Jewish Question’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Chapter 2 Memory Engraved in Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	36
Chapter 3 The Holocaust on Trial – Eichmann in Pretoria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
Chapter 4 Censoring the Holocaust under Apartheid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
Chapter 5 Anne Frank in South Africa – Between the Communal and the National Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Chapter 6 Holocaust Memory in the Lexicon of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Chapter 7 Holocaust Memory in Ahmed Kathrada’s Struggle against Apartheid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Conclusion: On the Role of Analogies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Archives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247

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eBook published on:

July 18, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783110715545

Hardcover published on:

July 18, 2022

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110715255

Paperback published on:

June 17, 2024

Paperback ISBN:

9783111521404

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Front matter:

10

Main content:

249

Illustrations:

7

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110715545

eBook ISBN: 9783110715545

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110715255

Paperback ISBN: 9783111521404

Keywords for this book

Holocaust; South Africa; apartheid; memory; Israel; antisemitism; Zionism; Jews; racism

Audience(s) for this book

Historians of the Cold War, Jewish Studies Scholars, African Studies Scholars, Public Historians

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