
Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State
Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948â1994)
- 259 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State
Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948â1994)
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Holocaust Memory in Apartheid South Africa
- Chapter 1âNazism, Afrikaner Nationalism and the âJewish Questionâ
- Chapter 2âMemory Engraved in Stone
- Chapter 3âThe Holocaust on Trial â Eichmann in Pretoria
- Chapter 4âCensoring the Holocaust under Apartheid
- Chapter 5âAnne Frank in South Africa â Between the Communal and the National
- Chapter 6âHolocaust Memory in the Lexicon of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Chapter 7âHolocaust Memory in Ahmed Kathradaâs Struggle against Apartheid
- Conclusion: On the Role of Analogies
- Archives
- Index