Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
South Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1993.
Description
In the 1930s, in the wake of the Nazi ascendancy in Germany, a wave of vicious anti-Semitism swept Europe, as Jews became outcasts in their own lands. As they clamoured to escape persecution, the world turned a blind eye to their plight. One man, Isaac Steinberg, had a vision of leading his people from the holocaust to a new paradise on the other side of the world. His enthusiastic and resolute efforts to realise his vision left large cracks in the smug Anglo-centrism that guarded his unpromised land. Leon Gettler's lively account of the little known Kimberley Jewish settlement scheme provides a fascinating insight into a series of events that came very close to changing the course of Australian history.
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Physical description
173 p.; 20 cm
ISBN
9781863680332
Local notes
Donated by Adele Rosalky from the Earle Hoffman Private Library, April 2019