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Jewish Identity in Multicultural Australia

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Authors:
  1. Jennifer Creese

    1. Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

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  • Offers a timely insight into ideas of ‘belonging’ in multicultural society from a Jewish perspective
  • Explores how various facets of Jewish life are experienced and expressed in Australia
  • Has insights not only in an Australian, but a broader international context

Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 1-21

  3. The South East Queensland Jewish Community

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 23-44

  4. “The Mayor Lights the Menorah”

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 45-74

  5. “The Great Australian Kosher Barbecue”

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 75-99

  6. From “Lest We Forget” to “Never Again”

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 101-124

  7. “If Something Happens, Then We’re Alone Together”

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 125-152

  8. “Jerusalem Is Etched into Our Bones”

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 153-180

  9. “All One Soul”

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 181-208

  10. Conclusion

    • Jennifer Creese
    Pages 209-220

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 221-242
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Jennifer Creese

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Jewish Identity in Multicultural Australia

  • Authors: Jennifer Creese

  • Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36347-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36346-7Published: 15 August 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36349-8Due: 29 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36347-4Published: 14 August 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2946-3475

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 242

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Religious Studies, general, Social Anthropology, Judaism

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