Vol 31 No 1 (2020)
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/177598
2024-03-28T14:34:51ZEditorial
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/177625
Editorial
Gorniok, Lukasz; Roos, Lena; Illman, Ruth
Editorial for Vol. 31/1
2020-06-30T06:53:21ZStaging the Jewish Bourgeois Home: Women as consumers and producers of diverse public spaces in Stockholm at the beginning of the twentieth century
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/177623
Staging the Jewish Bourgeois Home: Women as consumers and producers of diverse public spaces in Stockholm at the beginning of the twentieth century
Hultman, Maja
This article explores the relationship between the domestic position of Jewish bourgeois housewives and the larger Swedish, urban landscape at the beginning of the twentieth century. Examining the interior décor, shopping patterns, urban places, and the social, cultural and religious aspects of the domestic spheres of Irene Strauss and Jeannette Ettlinger, this article argues that they consciously used public spaces to establish their individual practices of Jewishness. By entering the gendered space of the Jewish home, accessible through private letters and receipts, this article portrays the bourgeois women as actors with social and economic power. They produced public spaces that communicated either cultural integration or orthodox distinctiveness, thereby constructing diverse strategies for Swedish belonging. These strategies demonstrate the growing religious, social and cultural diversity within the Jewish community in Stockholm during the three last decades before the Second World War.
2020-06-30T06:50:58Z”Vårt högsta mål. Judendomens väl.” Samfundet I.I: Judiska Intresset: 1841–1854
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/177622
”Vårt högsta mål. Judendomens väl.” Samfundet I.I: Judiska Intresset: 1841–1854
Carlesson Magalhães, Jens
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 as Gabriel Riesser, who was elected to be an honorary member of the Society. The members’ identities were bivalent: they embraced both a fully Jewish and a fully Swedish identity and argued that there was no obstacle to being a Jew at the same time as being a Swede. The term ‘Swede of the Mosaic faith’ became a weapon in this fight for equality and recognition as full worthy members of a liberal and secular Swedish nation.
2020-06-30T06:48:48ZA Renaissance of Jewish Studies in Contemporary Germany
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A Renaissance of Jewish Studies in Contemporary Germany
von Braun, Christina
This paper provides an overview of the development of Jewish studies in Germany since reunification. After a brief historical review of the subject in the nineteenth century with the development of modern Reform Judaism and the science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums) created by Jewish religious and secular scholars, it focuses on the development of the past thirty years, in which not only the Jewish community but also Jewish studies have increased in importance. The growth of the Jewish community was largely due to immigration from the Soviet Union, but also partly to young Israelis who moved to Berlin. In line with these different backgrounds, a new interest in diaspora research emerged. The paper also deals with the difference between German Jewish studies (necessarily shaped by the Holocaust) and those of most other countries, where Jewish studies are mainly designed by Jewish scholars.
2020-06-30T06:46:00Z