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Resisting assimilation - ethnic boundary maintenance among Jews in Sweden [PDF]

open access: yesDistinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2021
This article evaluates Andreas Wimmer's theory of ethnic boundary making by applying it to the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in interviews with Swedish Jews.
Bursell, Moa,, Grobgeld, David,
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Cultural Zionism in Sweden: Daniel Brick's Judisk krönika

open access: yesNordisk Judaistik, 1988
The present study examines the content of the Swedish-Jewish Zionist periodical Judisk Krönika during its earliest years of publication, 1932 to 1950, under the editorship of its founder, Daniel Brick.
Fruitman, Stephen
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German Jews in Sweden

open access: yesNordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 2018
Review of Deutschsprachige Jüdische Migration nach Schweden 1774 bis 1945, edited by Olaf Glöckner and Helmut Müssener (2017).
Kristian Gerner
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Resisting Assimilation: Ethnic Boundary Maintenance Among Jews in Sweden

open access: yes, 2017
This paper applies the ethnic boundary making theory developed by Andreas Wimmer to understand the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in thirteen interviews with Swedish Jews.
Grobgeld, David
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“Super-duper classical Jew in Sweden” : An ethnographic study of young Jews

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My ethnographic study follows young Swedish Jews as they navigate their lives before and afterthe 7th of October 2023. From eating matzo and gossiping in the synagogue to severing one’s connections with Israel or joining the Israel Defence Forces, these ...
Wiberg, Idun
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The complexity of displacement : Polish Jews in Sweden after World War II

open access: yes, 2017
Building from Ashes: Jews in Postwar Europe (1945-1950) International conference 3. - 5. December, a cooperation with the Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig, the Seminar für Judaistik at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Fritz Bauer Institute ...
Dahl, Izabela A.
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New book: Jonathan Adams, "Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden" (Open Access)

open access: yes, 2022
What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism? This book draws on over 100 medieval Danish and Swedish manuscripts and incunabula as well as runic inscriptions and religious art (c.
Maya Soifer Irish
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Swedish refugee policymaking in transition? : Czechoslovaks and Polish Jews in Sweden, 1968-1972

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this dissertation is to examine the Swedish government’s responses to the Prague Spring, the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the anti-Semitic campaigns in Poland and, first and foremost, to Czechoslovak and Polish-Jewish refugees ...
Górniok, Łukasz
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“Untilled Field” or “Barren Terrain”? Researching the Portrayal of Jews in Medieval Denmark and Sweden

open access: yes, 2020
This article on researching the portrayal of Jews in medieval Denmark and Sweden argues for the importance of the period for understanding the breadth, nuances, and history of anti-Jewish stereotypes in Scandinavia.
Adams, Jonathan,
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The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This book is the first study of the development of antisemitism in nineteenth-century Sweden, based on an analysis of 150 books and pamphlets. The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated topic – the ...
Heß, Cordelia
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