The Society I.I: the Jewish Cause was founded in 1841 to fight for emancipation and against anti-Judaism. Concepts such as ‘Jew’ and ‘Swede of the Mosaic faith’ became a part of this struggle. The Society can be linked to other advocates of emancipation in Europe, such ...


 
 
 
 This paper was presented at the conference ‘The Marrano Phenomenon: Jewish Hidden Tradition and Modernity’, Warsaw, 16–19 September 2019. It considers the case of Marcus Ehrenpreis, chief rabbi of Stockholm (1914–48). Ehrenpreis followed in t...

Editorial for Issue 30(2) of Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavain Jewish Studies.


 
 
 
 In a Swedish context, Jewish women’s experiences and actions have gone unrecorded and unrecognised; most narratives of Swedish Jewish history offer only a partial account of their past. Marginalised or ignored, or absorbed into universalised ...

In 1889, when Bertha von Suttner published her ground-breaking anti-war novel Die Waffen nieder! she called attention to a decade of war and social stress throughout larger parts of Europe. In a very similar way Theodor Herzl’s booklet Der Judenstaat published nearly te...

In this review article, the author discusses the dissertation of Henrik Bachner, The return. Antisemitism in Sweden after 1945 (1999).

Focusing on the New Testament scholar Anton Fridrichsen and his presentation of Jews and Judaism in his book Fyrahanda sadesaker , the present article deals with the problem of factors beyond the conscious application of methods and perspectives that influence the inter...

Addressing problems of Jewish identity in Israel, how memory of the past is constructed and how it is modified over time, this article focuses on a building and a park on the outskirts of the small Israeli town of Netivot, the Baba Sali’s Park. Rabbi Israel Avichatzerah...

Christian replacement theology (RT) is in this article defined as the notion that Judaism has been a good and true religion, but that it eventually ceased to bear those characteristic features and therefore was replaced by Christianity. Christianity is thus everything J...

The overall aim is to study first, how a very small ethnic group has coped socio-economically within the Swedish society during a period of rapid economic change and modernisation (the main period of industrialisation) and second, how this has affected Jewish self-ident...