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This Crazy Thing a Life: An Australian Jewish Autobiography

The Holocaust has produced three conditions that distinguish Australian Jews from all other ethic or migrant groups. First, it is a fact that creates their separate identity, however much they may have joined the dominant culture. A great number are death camp survivors or their children of survivors, or lost immediate family in the camps. Others avoided this immediate threat only through the historical good fortune that had brought their families to Australia before this fate impended. All are members of the global community and culture that Nazism sought to exterminate, and that contemporary anti-Semitism still threatens. Second, unlike such diasporic groups as the Irish, the Greeks or the Indians, most Australian Jews have no homeland to return to, however changed. The countries they came from may still exist on the map, but their Jewish component has been all but extinguished. Whereas before the Holocaust, Jews were integral to these national cultures, any remnant Jewish population is marginal. To the extent that the families of the migrants came from the Yiddish culture, even their language has been all but extinguished both in its homeland and in the new country where it throve for several generations. Third, they now have a national homeland in Israel, a new state created from shards of history and mythology, down even to its revived national language. These circumstances directly affect the memoirs, autobiographies and testimonies emerging from the Australian Jewish community. The writers feel the common need to establish their individual identity against the pressure of parents and community, but they also feel the need to establish themselves as individuals within the wider Jewish community as well as within contemporary