"A Terra Prometida?" (VIII): New Jerusalem Down Under: The Search for a Jewish Homeland in Australia (ver também aqui)

 

"The Sally and Ralph Duchin Campus Lectureship Series with Prof. Adam Rovner, Ph.D. - In his talk, Adam Rovner (Associate Professor of English & Jewish Literature and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver) details the cultural context and legacy of proposals to create mass settlements of Jewish refugees in Australia during the Nazi era. Archives located on four continents reveal how poets, playwrights, journalists, and social revolutionaries all worked to imagine the creation of a Jewish city-state 'down under'. This little-known chapter of intellectual history stems from a long tradition of Jewish Territorialism, a political ideology that merged the literary imagination with nationalist projects. For much of the 20th century, the question was not whether there should be a Jewish political entity, but where to put it. The abortive efforts to settle Jews in the Kimberley region and in southwestern Tasmania dramatize the story of centuries of Jewish homelessness"