03569oam 22004575 450 991074114890332120231115211605.03-031-36347-710.1007/978-3-031-36347-4(MiAaPQ)EBC30697479(Au-PeEL)EBL30697479(DE-He213)978-3-031-36347-4(EXLCZ)992798237480004120230814d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJewish identity in multicultural Australia /Jennifer Creese1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (254 pages)Contemporary Anthropology of ReligionPrint version: Creese, Jennifer Jewish Identity in Multicultural Australia Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031363467 1. Introduction -- 2. The South-East Queensland Jewish Community -- 3. The Mayor Lights the Menorah -- 4. The Great Australian Kosher Barbecue -- 5. From ‘Lest We Forget’ to ‘Never Again’ 6. If Something Happens, Then We’re Alone Together -- 7. Jerusalem is Etched into our Bones -- 8. All One Soul -- 9. Conclusion.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.Contemporary Anthropology of ReligionJewsAustraliaSocial conditionsMulticulturalismAustraliaJewsSocial conditions.Multiculturalism305.8924094Creese Jennifer1424890MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910741148903321Jewish Identity in Multicultural Australia3554505UNINA