ISBN:
9783031363474
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 242 Seiten)
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Karten, Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Contemporary anthropology of religion
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DDC:
305.8924094
Keywords:
Jews Social conditions
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Multiculturalism
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Australien
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Juden
;
Identität
Abstract:
This book offers a timely insight into ideas of belonging in multicultural society from a Jewish perspective, one which is largely missing from the discourse on multiculturalism. There is a current climate in Australia, as there is in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, of rising tensions around migration, religious freedom, and far right extremism. These tensions have been fanned the Israeli-Palestine conflict coming under increased international scrutiny in recent months. Understanding how Jewish communities attempt to build and guide an understanding of what Jewishness means in contemporary multicultural societies is crucial for supporting the right to safety in diversity, not only for Jews but for multiple minority groups. In delivering such understanding, this book has insights not only in an Australian, but a broader international, context. This book explores how various facets of Jewish life are experienced and expressed in Australia, drawing on rich ethnographic and archival research conducted within the mid-sized Jewish community in South-East Queensland, Australia, which has never before been examined. Jewish Identity in Multicultural Australia explores how Jewish identity is manifested and experienced across a wide range of facets: religion and religiosity, ethnicity and ethnonational identity, history and memory, antisemitism and racism, Zionism and diasporic identity, and family and kinship. Across these key themes, the book builds on a core argument: that contemporary Jewish communities work in certain, set ways and promote certain, set norms within a framework of state multiculturalism to forge a safe, supported place for Jewish life, practice and identity of all shapes and sizes. Jennifer Creese is a lecturer in the SAPPHIRE Group at the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK, where she is an expert in ethnographic research, immigration and emigration, and institutional culture. She is the author of a number of works on Jewish religion, culture, and history in Australia, including Jewish life in Queensland: celebrating 150 years since 1865 (2016). She received her PhD from The University of Queensland, Australia in 2020, and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, in South-East Queensland. She is active on Twitter at jennifer_creese
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About This Book -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- An Ethnography of Australian Jewish Identity -- Conceptualizing Jewish Identity -- Conceptualizing "the Jewish Community" -- Conceptualizing "Multicultural Australia" -- References -- Chapter 2: The South East Queensland Jewish Community -- A Brief History of the First Jewish Presence in Australia -- Jewish Life in Queensland: A Historical Overview -- The Contemporary South East Queensland Jewish Community -- Community Governance and Representation: the Jewish Board of Deputies
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Multicultural, Ethnic or Religious? -- References -- Chapter 3: "The Mayor Lights the Menorah" -- The "Civic Secular" and Religious Communities in South East Queensland -- Orthopraxy as Performativity: "Doing" Orthodox Religion in Jewish Communal Identity -- Festival Observation: Ritual Habitus and Performance -- Hanukkah and the Celebration of Jewishness in the Public Arena -- Interfaith Participation: Performing Sameness and Difference -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: "The Great Australian Kosher Barbecue" -- Multicultural Identity in Anthropological Literature
Description / Table of Contents:
Australian National Identity -- "I'm Jewish, But I Live as an Australian": Compartmentalized Private Identity -- "I'm a Jewish Australian": The Creolized Identity -- Third Culture: Other Influences on Australian Jewish Identity -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: From "Lest We Forget" to "Never Again" -- History and Memory in Community Identity -- Centralizing Historical Experience in Identity: The Holocaust and Jewishness -- Performing Jewish History as Australian History -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: "If Something Happens, Then We're Alone Together"
Description / Table of Contents:
Fear as a Social Phenomenon -- Existence and Prevalence of Antisemitism -- Sources of Antisemitism -- Responses and Reactions to Fears -- Fear in Identity: The Performance and Politics of Vulnerability -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: "Jerusalem Is Etched into Our Bones" -- Diaspora, Zionism and Home in Anthropological Literature -- Private Wrestling with Zionism and Israel -- Supporting and Defending Israel -- Celebrating and Showcasing Israel and Israeli Culture -- "Going Home": Aliyah and Tourism to Israel by the Jewish Community -- Conclusions -- References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8: "All One Soul" -- Kinship and Connectedness -- Local Fictive Kinship in the South East Queensland Jewish Community -- Global Kinship with Other Jewish Communities -- "Keeping It in the Family": Kinship through Marriage and Conversion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Jewish Narratives of Sameness and Distinctiveness in Australia -- The South East Queensland Jewish Community in the Present Day -- Future Research -- Final Thoughts -- References -- Glossary -- Index
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