{"product_id":"the-holocaust-and-australia-refugees-rejection-and-memory-hardcover","title":"The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul R. Bartrop\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the bureaucracy cynically sought to restrict Jewish entry despite McEwen's lofty ambitions. Moreover, the book considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Holocaust and Australia\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with how, when the Second World War broke out, questions of security were exploited as the means to further exclude Jewish refugees, a policy incongruous alongside government pronouncements condemning Nazi atrocities. The book also reflects on the double standard applied towards refugees who were Jewish and those who were not, as shown through the refusal of the government to accept 90% of Jewish applications before the war. During the war years this double standard continued, as Australia said it was not accepting foreign immigrants while taking in those it deemed to be acceptable for the war effort.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees themselves and placing the country's response in the wider contexts of both national and international history in the decades that have followed, Paul R. Bartrop provides a peerless Australian perspective on one of the most catastrophic episodes in world history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul R. Bartrop \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He is the author and co-author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eResisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), \u003ci\u003eEncountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eGenocide: The Basics \u003c\/i\u003e(2014). He is also the co-editor, along with Samuel Totten, of \u003ci\u003eThe Genocide Studies Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and the four-volume \u003ci\u003eModern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection \u003c\/i\u003e(2014; co-edited with Steven Leonard Jacobs). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfessor Bartrop is currently Vice-President of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, and is a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783962067232,"sku":"9781350185142","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/459eec9bca74c8738a68f0344b2370de.webp?v=1780597525","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-holocaust-and-australia-refugees-rejection-and-memory-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}