Jewish identity in multicultural Australia / Jennifer Creese.
Creese, Jennifer.
2023
DS135.A88
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Title Jewish identity in multicultural Australia / Jennifer Creese.
Author Creese, Jennifer.
ISBN 9783031363474 (electronic bk.)
3031363477 (electronic bk.)
3031363469
9783031363467
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36347-4
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-36347-4 doi
Call Number DS135.A88
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8924094
Summary 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.
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JEWISH IDENTITY IN MULTICULTURAL AUSTRALIA.
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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

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

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"

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

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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