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‘Rabbinising’ in sixteenth-century polemics
(The Donner Institute, 27.06.2022)‘Rabbi’ is the title of Jewish scholars and teachers. Yet, in the sixteenth century, the word was sometimes employed in Christian discourse, when Christian scholars referred to their Christian peers as rabbis. How could ... -
Reading Paul with Messianic Jews
(The Donner Institute, 27.06.2022)This review article presents and summarises my doctoral dissertation ‘Reading Romans, Constructing Paul(s): A Conversation between Messianic Jews in Jerusalem and Paul within Judaism Scholars’, defended on 24 September ... -
Researching vernacular Judaism: reflections on theory and method
(The Donner Institute, 26.05.2019)This article presents the ethnographically driven multi-method research perspective of vernacular religion and analyses its potential to contribute to the theoretical advancement of Jewish studies. The ongoing discussion ... -
Revival? Rebirth? Renaissance? What happened to Polish Jews over the last four decades?
(the Donner Institute, 18.05.2020)Drawing on personal experience, the author discusses the vicissitudes of Jewish identity formation in the last two decades of Communist Poland and the first two decades which followed. He addresses the role of religion in ... -
'Saints without God': Camus's poetics of secular faith
(the Donner Institute, 29.05.2018)This article addresses Camus’s response to Christianity and the problem of suffering in the context of the early twentieth century. Owing to his association with the existentialist movement, it is often assumed that Camus, ... -
Scandinavia and Israel after the Holocaust
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2020)This article has two distinct yet interrelated aims. Firstly, through an exploration of three examples from Sweden, Norway and Denmark, it seeks to illustrate that an integrated examination of the events of both the Second ... -
Shaping ongoing survival in a Swedish refugee camp
(The Donner Institute, 27.06.2022)Among the hundreds of sites that housed survivors of Nazi persecution who came to Sweden in the spring and summer of 1945, one of the largest was at the small village of Öreryd. Between June 1945 and September 1946, around ... -
Splittringen mellan polska judiska och icke-judiska överlevande från koncentrationsläger. Det svenska samhällets reaktioner våren och sommaren 1945
(the Donner Institute, 27.06.2016)När ungefär 20 000 överlevande från nazisternas koncentrationsläger togs emot i Sverige under våren och sommaren 1945 visste flyktingpersonalen och beslutfattarna bland svenska myndigheter mycket litet om deras bakgrund, ... -
Staging the Jewish Bourgeois Home: Women as consumers and producers of diverse public spaces in Stockholm at the beginning of the twentieth century
(the Donner Institute, 20.05.2020)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 ... -
Svante Hansson in memoriam
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Nekrolog över Svante Hansson (1938-2023). -
Svenska judars berättelser om flyktingar, överlevande och hjälpverksamheter under och efter Förintelsen
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2020)Swedish Jews’ supposed inactivity over Europe’s persecuted Jews during the Holocaust has been a prevalent discourse during the post-war period. This article ponders the origins of that discourse and how it affects how and ... -
Swedish interventions in the tragedy of the Jews of Slovakia
(the Donner Institute, 05.12.2016)This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to intervene in deportations of Jews of Slovakia between 1942 and 1944. Swedish officials and religious leaders used their diplomatic correspondence with the Slovak ... -
The aesthetics and ethics of performative Holocaust memory in Poland
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)This article addresses the performative dimension of the post-1989 Polish memorial culture of the Holocaust, characterised by a collaborative and audience-participatory model of remembering the Jewish victims. In this model ... -
The black bar mitzvah
(The Donner Institute, 27.06.2022)References to Jews and to matters included in Jewish discourse are commonplace in US popular culture in general and in US-produced hip-hop lyrics in particular. This article deals with the latter, and aims to analyse how ... -
The Catholic Church, Jews, the Shoah and the State of Israel. Interpretations and responses
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Judaism and Christianity are religions whose theological epistemology is based on revelation. The primary source of revelation is Holy Scripture. However, history has also been recognised as a source of revelation, ... -
The faith and actions of Greta Andrén, missionary to the Jews of Vienna, 1938–41
(The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)In this microhistorical study of the Swedish Mission to the Jews (Svenska Israelsmissionen) in Vienna, I explore the everyday life and work of the deaconess Greta Andrén (1909–71) during the time of the Nazi occupation of ... -
‘The Golden Chain of Pious Rabbis’: the origin and development of Finnish Jewish Orthodoxy
(The Donner Institute, 26.05.2019)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 ... -
The International Jewish Youth Camp at Szarvas: History, impact and future
(the Donner Institute, 20.05.2020)The JDC-Lauder International Jewish Youth Camp at Szarvas is perceived today as the single most important Jewish outreach and educational programme in Central and Eastern Europe; it is a key symbol for Eastern European ... -
The Jewish Tradition – Does it Matter?
(the Donner Institute, 03.11.2018)Introduction to the three conference presentations from the seminar at the University of Oslo in March, 2018. -
The last Jews in Hämeenlinna, 1889–1918. A community fades away
(The Donner Institute, 12.12.2023)Around a hundred years ago there was a tiny Jewish community in Hämeenlinna, a small provincial capital in Finland. The dissolution of the Hämeenlinna Jewish community has become shrouded in mystery. Some amateur historians ...