A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne - Couverture souple

Taft, Margaret; Markus, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 192549585X ISBN 13 : 9781925495850

Editeur : Monash University Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few possessions with them, but clung to a language and culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, genocide. Melbourne gave them a second chance, an opportunity to rebuild their secular Yiddish world. Hardship had taught these Jews to be resilient, fiercely independent and great institution builders. A community centre quickly became the beating heart of Yiddish Melbourne. The arts flourished, newspapers launched, schools were established. But the immigrants also brought competing political ideals and hotly contested notions of what it meant to be a Jew in Australia. They were not always welcome. Australian authorities restricted their migration; and their high visibility challenged the authority of the established Jewish community. Using interviews and archival sources, Taft & Markus give a compelling account of how these Yiddish speakers came to shape, change and define an entire community.

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À propos de l?auteur

Professor Andrew Markus is the Pratt Foundation Research Professor of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has published extensively on Australian immigration and race relations. Andrew heads the Scanlon Foundation social cohesion research program which in 2017 conducted its 10th national survey. He is also the principal researcher on the Australian Jewish population and Yiddish Melbourne research projects. Andrew is a post-war immigrant from Hungary who arrived in Australia in January 1957. Dr Margaret Taft is a Research Associate at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, (ACJC) Monash University, and author of From Victim to Survivor: The Emergence and Development of the Holocaust Witness 1941-1949 (2013) and, with Andrew Markus, Walter Lippmann, Ethnic Communities Leader (2016). Margaret has been researching Yiddish Melbourne for the past eight years as part of a major study undertaken by the ACJC. She is a Yiddish speaker and daughter of Holocaust survivors whose early years were spent in the post-war immigrant community of Northcote.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Monash University Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 192549585X
• ISBN 13: 9781925495850
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible