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Tensions between Protestants and Catholics persisted throughout nineteenth-century Australia. Historians have tended to examine the part played by the clergy, pressure groups or newspapers in sectarian disputes in the main colonies of New South Wales and Victoria. This article contributes to an understanding of anti-Catholicism in the Australian colonies by focusing on the actions and writings of one Catholic layman, Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall, in mid nineteenth-century Tasmania. To minimise religious hostility, Hall was tolerant towards Protestants, loyal to the British Crown, and worked co-operatively with other creeds in helping the poor. This approach made Catholicism more acceptable to Protestant society until the late 1860s. Thereafter religious divisions became more pronounced with the appointment of Irish Bishop Daniel Murphy, who adopted the authoritarian policies of the papacy and asserted the rights of Catholics. Feeling threatened by Catholic assertion and antagonised by Catholic doctrinal beliefs, Evangelical Protestants expressed anti-Catholic sentiments at public meetings and in newspapers. In showing how Hall defended Catholics when aspersions were cast on their clergymen, their character, or their religious practices, this article concludes that Catholics were not passive victims, but Hall's fierce polemical style worked against his desire for religious peace.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12343

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Between ‘Nothing’ and ‘Something’: Narratives of Survival in H. G. Adler’s Scholarly and Literary Analysis of the Shoah *

März 18, 2016, 12:00 p.m., Menzel, J., Allgemein.

This article examines Holocaust survival in general and inner states and temporality in particular in the study Theresienstadt 1941–1945 (1955) and the novel The Journey (1962) by the poet, novelist, and scholar H. G. Adler, a survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto and several camps. The article shows that the moment of survival is a key juncture in both texts, as their respective representations are intertwined by overarching reflections on the implications and significance of the Holocaust, and as they conflate the experiences of the survivors, the destruction that they witnessed, and the hope they felt after liberation. Adler's complementary narratives reach, however, far beyond the description of facts; above all, they focus on a moment of transition unfolding in the individual survivor from ‘nothing’, an inner state resulting from the devastating experiences of the Holocaust, to ‘something’, an uncertain new beginning. The article investigates the different layers of meaning suggested by the central yet elusive terms ‘nothing’ and ‘something’, which link both texts. It analyses the biblical references used by Adler and examines the limits of narrativization. Drawing on the insights of Holocaust studies, this article emphasizes the importance of Adler's genre-bending, and, compared with other contemporary narratives, very unusual texts, which seek to understand the Holocaust primarily through a short moment in time, namely the moment of survival. In this sense, Adler's texts suggest new and distinct modes of representing the Holocaust.

Quelle: https://academic.oup.com/leobaeck/article/61/1/119/2669597/Between-Nothing-and-Something-Narratives-of?rss=1

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