Jewish Studies in the Nordic Countries Today
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Ruth Illman and Björn Dahla
Jewish studies in the Nordic countries today
Cecilia Wassen
The Jewishness of Jesus and ritual purity
Karin Hedner Zetterholm
Jesus-oriented visions of Judaism in antiquity
Antti Laato
Celsus, Toledot Yeshu and early traces of apology for the virgin birth of Jesus
Riikka Tuori
ʿĂqēdōt: the binding of Isaac in early modern Polish-Lithuanian Karaite poetry
Claudia Welz
Trauma, memory, testimony:
phenomenological, and ethical perspectives
Sofie Lene Bak
Repatriation and restitution of Holocaust victims in post-war Denmark
Vibeke Kieding Banik
The faith of the fathers, the future of the youth: being Jewish on the periphery of the diaspora
Laura Ekholm and Simo Muir
Name changes and visions of ‘a new Jew’ in the Helsinki Jewish community
Jan Schwarz
Transnational Ashkenaz: Yiddish culture after the Holocaust
Christhard Hoffmann
Jewish history as a history of immigration:
an overview of current historiography in the Scandinavian countries
Risto Olavi Nurmela
Moses: Freud’s ultimate project
Mia Anderssén-Löf
May He Speedily Come: the role of the Messiah in Haredi and Hardal Judaism
Ben Kasstan
Positioning oneself and being positioned in the ‘community’:
an essay on Jewish ethnography as a ‘Jew-ish’ ethnographer
Ruth Illman
Creativity, community, change: functions of and motives for singing niggunim
Natalie Lantz
A guide for the perplexed: a student’s navigation through
Jewish studies in Sweden
Jewish studies in the Nordic countries today
Cecilia Wassen
The Jewishness of Jesus and ritual purity
Karin Hedner Zetterholm
Jesus-oriented visions of Judaism in antiquity
Antti Laato
Celsus, Toledot Yeshu and early traces of apology for the virgin birth of Jesus
Riikka Tuori
ʿĂqēdōt: the binding of Isaac in early modern Polish-Lithuanian Karaite poetry
Claudia Welz
Trauma, memory, testimony:
phenomenological, and ethical perspectives
Sofie Lene Bak
Repatriation and restitution of Holocaust victims in post-war Denmark
Vibeke Kieding Banik
The faith of the fathers, the future of the youth: being Jewish on the periphery of the diaspora
Laura Ekholm and Simo Muir
Name changes and visions of ‘a new Jew’ in the Helsinki Jewish community
Jan Schwarz
Transnational Ashkenaz: Yiddish culture after the Holocaust
Christhard Hoffmann
Jewish history as a history of immigration:
an overview of current historiography in the Scandinavian countries
Risto Olavi Nurmela
Moses: Freud’s ultimate project
Mia Anderssén-Löf
May He Speedily Come: the role of the Messiah in Haredi and Hardal Judaism
Ben Kasstan
Positioning oneself and being positioned in the ‘community’:
an essay on Jewish ethnography as a ‘Jew-ish’ ethnographer
Ruth Illman
Creativity, community, change: functions of and motives for singing niggunim
Natalie Lantz
A guide for the perplexed: a student’s navigation through
Jewish studies in Sweden
Tiivistelmä
This volume presents articles by Nordic scholars working with Jewish subjects in their research. It deals with current approaches, findings and challenges within the research field from a variety of theoretical, methodological and epistemological perspectives, ranging from rabbinic theology to contemporary ethography.