Vol 30 No 2 (2019)
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/173264
2024-03-29T07:22:28Z
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/173272
Illman, Ruth; Hedner Zetterholm, Karin
Editorial for Issue 30(2) of Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavain Jewish Studies.
2019-12-02T10:19:43ZDen Judiska Kvinnoklubben (JKK) och de judiska flyktingarna under 1930- och 1940-talen
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/173271
Den Judiska Kvinnoklubben (JKK) och de judiska flyktingarna under 1930- och 1940-talen
Thor Tureby, Malin
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 into universalised categories of ‘Jews’, ‘women’ or ‘survivors’, the experiences and histories of Jewish women are in general not represented in previous Swedish research on the history of the Jewish minority, the Swedish Jewish response to the Nazi terror and the Holocaust or the history of the women’s movement in general. Previous research on the Swedish Jewish response and assistance for the Jewish refugees and survivors of Nazi persecution has mainly dealt with the Jewish community in Stockholm and its relief committee, where the women were absent from leadership positions. The purpose of this study is to explore if and how the Jewish women’s club in Stockholm initiated or was involved in relief activities for and with the persecuted Jews of Europe. Specifically, this is investigated in the context of how the club was established and manifested in public by examining what questions the club raised and what activities it organised in the 1930s and 1940s.
2019-12-02T10:17:45ZMerchants of Helsinki: Jewish stereotypes on a Yiddish stage
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/173269
Merchants of Helsinki: Jewish stereotypes on a Yiddish stage
Muir, Simo
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 between humour, Jewish self-deprecation and antisemitic depiction of the Jew becomes blurred. The questionable business ethics of Jewish merchants is one of the core themes of the revue.The article asks what role ethnic stereotypes played in Jewish humour before the height of National Socialist racial antisemitism, and what purpose such performances served. It examines the various stereotypes found in the couplets, sketches and one-act plays in Weinstein’s kleynkunst performance against the background of transnational Jewish performing arts and current research on Jewish entrepreneurship and antisemitism in Finland.
2019-12-02T10:16:05ZKeeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark
https://www.doria.fi:443/handle/10024/173268
Keeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark
Fischer, Johan
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 Denmark. In recent years, the rules regulating kosher consumption have been supplemented by elaborate rules concerning globalised mass production, which have had an impact on the way people handle questions of kashrut. During the same period, global markets for kosher have proliferated; this article explores the everyday kosher consumption among Jews in Denmark in the light of these transformations. Everyday kosher consumption among a minority group such as Jews in Denmark is not well understood, and I argue that globalised forms of regulation increasingly condition this type of consumption. Even though Denmark is a small and relatively secular country and Jews comprise only about 7,000 individuals, kosher production and regulation have national economic significance. Methodologically, I build on ethnographic data from contemporary Denmark, that is, participant observation and interviews.
2019-12-02T10:12:58Z