The Bulletin
Men's Weekly


.

For Australian Jews in the 1940s and 1950s, remembering the Holocaust meant fighting racism and colonialism

  • Written by Max Kaiser, Adjunct lecturer, The University of Melbourne
For Australian Jews in the 1940s and 1950s, remembering the Holocaust meant fighting racism and colonialismNational Library of Australia

Readers are advised this piece contains some racist terminology.

Today, the Australian public mostly sees a conservative Australian Jewish communal leadership that has, since the 1990s, rarely spoken out on anything unrelated to Israel or the Holocaust.

Both issues are often drawn together. Arguments for Israel’s...

Read more: For Australian Jews in the 1940s and 1950s, remembering the Holocaust meant fighting racism and...