@article{1475983,
      recid = {1475983},
      author = {Creese, Jennifer.},
      title = {Jewish identity in multicultural Australia /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2023},
      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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1475983},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36347-4},
}