@article{1451005,
      recid = {1451005},
      author = {Kaiser, Max,},
      title = {Jewish antifascism and the false promise of settler  colonialism /},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 302 pages)},
      abstract = {Across the diaspora, young progressive Jews look at the  institutions that run their communities and ask: How did  they become morally corrupt? Max Kaiser answers that  question for Australia. But, even more importantly, he  excavates a lost anti-fascist past from which a younger  Jewish generation can draw inspiration as it battles the  resurgent fascism of our age. Peter Beinart,  editor-at-large, Jewish Currents Jewish anti-fascism of the  1940s is a missing but important chapter in the history of  Jews in Australia, as well as the history of the Left and  Australian intellectuals attitudes to settler colonialism  and Australias Indigenous population. Now Max Kaiser has  written it in a sympathetic, erudite and readable narrative  that brings back to life such colourful figures as the  writer Judah Waten, artist Yosl Bergner and activists  Norman and Evelyn Rothfield. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian  Catholic University This book takes a timely look at  histories of radical Jewish movements, their modes of  Holocaust memorialisation, and their relationships with  broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles. Its  primary focus is Australia, where Jewish antifascism was a  major political and cultural force in Jewish communities in  the 1940s and early 1950s. This cultural and intellectual  history of Jewish antifascism utilises a transnational lens  to provide an exploration of a Jewish antifascist ideology  that took hold in the middle of the twentieth century  across Jewish communities worldwide. It argues that Jewish  antifascism offered an alternate path for Jewish politics  that was foreclosed by mutually reinforcing ideologies of  settler colonialism, both in Palestine and Australia. Max  Kaiser lives on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the  Kulin nation. He completed his PhD at the University of  Melbourne, Australia.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451005},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10123-6},
}