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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 ... -
The medieval roots of antisemitism in Sweden
(The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)The lack of a local Jewish community did not prevent medieval Swedish clerics and lay people from being interested in Jews and Jewish questions. They bought, translated, read and preached from most of the available textual ... -
The reconfiguration of the European Archive in contemporary German-Jewish migrant-literature: Katja Petrowskaja’s novel Vielleicht Esther
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)A considerable number of Eastern European migrant authors of Jewish origin are currently lifting Holocaust memory to a new level. Writing in German about events taking place in remote areas of the world, they expand the ... -
The Return of Liberal Rabbinic Education to Berlin: Abraham Geiger College, Zacharias Frankel College and the School of Jewish Theology
(the Donner Institute, 20.05.2020)In Berlin two rabbinical seminaries, a Reform and Conservative, have recently been established. The historical and intellectual roots of these institutions in the nineteenth century is sketched, and then contrasted with ... -
The socio-economic context of Capernaum’s limestone synagogue and Jewish–Christian relations in the late-ancient town
(The Donner Institute, 31.05.2021)In this article, I consider a set of contextual questions related to the social and economic influences on the construction and use of Capernaum’s great limestone synagogue, and ask what these influences might tell us about ... -
The symbolic universe of the Temple
(The Donner Institute, 19.12.2022)For Jews, the Jerusalem Temple is the historical focus of ritual practice and pilgrimage. After its destruction in 70 ce, synagogues gradually became important centres for community and ritual, yet the Temple remained a ... -
The The origins of David Rapaport's 'Portrait of Moses' story
(The Donner Institute, 20.12.2021)David Rapaport, one of the founders of psychoanalytic ego psychology, used a story about a portrait of Moses in three of his papers in the 1950s in order to illustrate his view that the self has the power to shape its own ... -
The ‘Old Testament’ as the origin of the patriarchy
(The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)This article explores and compares two similar debates in Germany and Sweden during the 1980s, in which feminists blamed the Hebrew Bible, or ‘Old Testament’, for being the origin of the patriarchy. In Germany, the ... -
Two Jewish studies related postdoctoral projects in Scandinavia
(the Donner Institute, 03.11.2018)Wally V. Cirafesi of University of Oslo and Katharina E. Keim of Lund University briefly present their postdoctoral projects within the area of Jewish Studies. Cirafesi has just completed his dissertation on the Gospel of ... -
Tysk-judisk migration till Sverige
(The Donner Institute, 19.06.2023)Artikeln är en översikt av den tysk-judiska invandringen till Sverige från 1770-talet och framåt. Till en början skedde invandringen till stor del i form av kedjemigration från Mecklenburg. Många i pionjären Aaron Isaacs ... -
Tyska utflykter i skandinavisk judaistik
(The Donner Institute, 31.05.2021)En recension av Figurationen des J¨üdischen. Spurensuchen in der skandinavischen Literatur, utg. Clemens Räthel och Stefanie von Schnurbein (Nordeuropa-Institut, 2020). -
Verbal images of evil and (in)humanity during and after the Holocaust
(the Donner Institute, 29.05.2018)In this paper, I explore images of evil and (in)humanity in the works of Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo – verbal images that they encountered within Auschwitz and those that they created afterwards to try to bear witness ... -
”Vi har redan tillräckligt med judar här”.Tonsättaren Hans Holewa och exilens dubbelhet
(the Donner Institute, 27.06.2016)Tonsättaren, radiomedarbetaren och musikern Hans Holewa (1905–1991) anlände till Sverige 1937 som landsflyktig undan den tilltagande antisemitismen i Wien, drygt ett halvår innan Österrike annekterades av Nazityskland. Som ...