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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why the Book?: Shahar Burla and Dashiel Lawrence; Part One Australia and Israel -- Diasporic Relationship; 1 Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: New Australian Jewish Connections with Israel: Dashiel Lawrence; 2 The Personal, the Political and the Religious: Bnei Akiva Australia and its Relationship with Israel: Ari Lander; 3 Israeli Government and Diaspora Mobilisation: The Flotilla to Gaza and Australian Jewry as a Case Study: Shahar Burla. |
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4 The Place of Hebrew and Israel Education in Australian Jewish Schools: Suzanne Rutland and Zehavit Gross5 The Ausraeli Approach: the Diasporic Identity of Israelis in Australia: Ran Porat; Part Two Australia and Israel -- Political and Cultural Relationship; 6 Overcoming Water Scarcity and Inequity in Arid Lands: Comparing Water Management in Australia and Israel: Dominic Skinner and Stephanie Galaitsi; 7 Ben Zygier's Story and Australia-Israel Relations: Ingrid Matthews; 8 A Fight Worth Having: Rudd, Gillard, Israel and the Australian Labor Party: Alex Benjamin Burston-Chorowicz. |
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9 An Alliance of Forgetting: National Narratives of Legitimacy on the Occasion of Israel-Australia's Joint Stamp Issue Commemorating the Battle of Beersheba: Micaela SahharPart Three Australia, Israel and the Boycott Divestment and Sanction Scheme; 10 The Australian Greens and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Philip Mendes; 11 Academic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Implications for Australian-Israeli Relations: Ingrid Matthews and James Arvanitakis; Conclusion: First Cousinhood, Political Unease, and the Limits of Comparison: Fania Oz-Salzberger; The Editors and Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
Australia and the State of Israel have maintained a cordial if at times ambiguous relationship. The two countries are geographically isolated: strategic, economic, and cultural interests lie increasingly with Asia for one, and with the United States and the European Union for the other. But for all that divides the two states, there is also much they share. Australia played an important role in the Jewish state's establishment in 1948, and is home to the most Zionist-centered Jewish diaspora globally. Jewishness for most Australian Jews has been shaped and defined by engagement with and suppor. |
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Australia -- Foreign relation -- Israel.
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Australia. |
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Israel. |
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Israel -- Foreign relation -- Australia.
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Israel and the diaspora.
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Israel and the diaspora. |
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Jews -- Australia -- History.
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Jews. |
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History. |
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Jews -- Australia -- Identity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Burla, Shaḥar, editor.
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Lawrence, Dashiel, editor.
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Australia and Israel |
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Print version: Burla, Shahar. Australia & Israel : A Diasporic, Cultural and Political Relationship. Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, ©2015 9781845196882 |
| ISBN |
9781782842255 (electronic book) |
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178284225X (electronic book) |
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9781845196882 (electronic book) |
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1845196880 (electronic book) |
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9781782842231 (electronic book) |
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1782842233 (electronic book) |
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9781782842248 (mobi) |
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