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Orthodox actors and equal opportunities policies in the Republic of Moldova in the context of the transformation of post-Soviet societies
(The Donner Institute, 2019-10-23)
This article examines how the key Orthodox actors in Moldova have reacted to challenging equal opportunities legislation. The author suggests, on the basis of an economic approach to religion, that under the conditions of ...
Various perspectives on religion and global politics
(The Donner Institute, 2019-10-23)
Review of Uskonto ja maailmanpolitiikka, eds. Heikki Pesonen, Tuula Sakaranaho and Sini Paukkunen (Helsinki, Gaudeamus, 2019).
Chronicle of love, abuse and change
(The Donner Institute, 2019-10-23)
Review of Peter Mulholland's Love's Betrayal: The Decline of Catholicism and Rise of New Religions in Ireland (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2019).
Merchants of Helsinki: Jewish stereotypes on a Yiddish stage
(The Donner Institute, 2019-11-24)
This article analyses a New Year’s revue from 1929 by Helsinki-born Jac Weinstein (1883–1976) and the image of the Jewish merchant. Many stereotypes concerning ethnicity and gender are at play in the revue and the line ...
Keeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark
(The Donner Institute, 2019-11-24)
The Hebrew term kosher means ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ and it traditionally signifies foods that conform to Jewish dietary law (kashrut). This article explores how kosher is understood, practised and contested in contemporary ...
Den Judiska Kvinnoklubben (JKK) och de judiska flyktingarna under 1930- och 1940-talen
(The Donner Institute, 2019-11-24)
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 ...
‘The Golden Chain of Pious Rabbis’: the origin and development of Finnish Jewish Orthodoxy
(The Donner Institute, 2019-05-26)
This article provides the first historiographical analysis of the origins of Jewish Orthodoxy in Helsinki and describes the development of the rabbinate from the establishment of the congregation in the late 1850s up to ...
Laws, doctrines and practice: a study of intermarriages and the ways they challenged the Jewish Community of Helsinki from 1930 to 1970
(The Donner Institute, 2019-05-26)
The identities, customs and habits of religious congregations are tightly connected to the history of these congregations and to the specific religious tradition or denomination they consider themselves to be a part of. ...
Ett viktigt kapitel av de finländska judarnas historia dokumenterat
(The Donner Institute, 2019-05-26)
Recension av Kyläkoulu keskellä kaupunkia. Helsingin juutalainen yhteiskoulu 100 vuotta [Byskolan mitt istan. Helsingfors Judiska Samskola 100 år], red. Dan Kantor (ansvarig redaktör), Laura Ekholm, Simo Muir, Riitta Nurmi ...
Ny rapport om finländska SS-frivilliga och övergreppen mot judar 1941–1943. A new report on Finnish SS-volunteers and atrocities against Jews 1941–3
(The Donner Institute, 2019-05-26)
Review (in Swedish and in English) of Lars Westerlund's The Finnish SS-Volunteers and Atrocities against Jews, Civilians and Prisoners of War in Ukraine and the Caucasus Region 1941–1943: An Archival Study (Helsinki, ...