the Palgrave Handbook of Australia and Holocaust

This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. “This wide-ranging collection includes provocative essays from both internationally renowned and emerging scholars. Together they examine Australia’s complex relationship to the Holocaust from the 1930s to the present, bringing together personal and collective histories; social, cultural and political responses from a variety of perspectives; postwar justice and Australia’s own history. An outstanding volume on the history and legacy of the Holocaust in Australia, edited by two of the leading scholars in the field, this will be an essential resource for students, academics and the public more widely.” — James Jordan, University of Southampton, UK 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. Avril Alba is Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation in Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is currently working on an ARC Discovery project, ‘The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia’ and an ARC Linkage project, ‘Evaluating the Impact of Holocaust Museum Education’. Jan Láníček is Associate Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is currently completing a study of post-Holocaust judicial retribution in Czechoslovakia. He also researches Jewish migration to Australia before, during and after World War II. He is currently working, together with Professor Ruth Balint, on an ARC Discovery project, ‘The Holocaust as an Australian Story, 1933–1954’. 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.

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