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A Second Chance
A Second Chance

A Second Chance

The Making of Yiddish Melbourne

Australian History

HISTORY

344 Pages

Formats: Trade Paper, PDF

Trade Paper, $29.95 (US $29.95) (CA $41.00)

Publication Date: August 2018

ISBN 9781925495850

Rights: US & CA

Monash University Publishing (Aug 2018)

Price: $29.95
 
 

Overview

They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourne gave them a second chance at life, an opportunity to rebuild a secular Yiddish world that sat at the core of their existence. The arts flourished, newspapers were launched, and schools were established. But these immigrants also brought their competing political ideals, hotly contested notions of what it meant to be a Jew, and how to live life in this furthest corner of the world. Yiddish speakers, with their boisterous demeanour and high visibility challenged the authority of the established Jewish community, which traced its origins to the first settlement and which believed that 'blending in' was the antidote to antisemitism. Using the voices of the immigrants themselves and archival sources, the authors give a compelling account of how these Yiddish speakers came to shape, change and define an entire community.

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