Sven Lidman: Silfverstååhl i den judiska finansvärlden

Authors

• Svante Hansson Stockholms universitet

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30752/nj.69390

Keywords:

Fiction, Authors, Swedish, Swedish literature, Finance, Business, Economics, Industrialization, Capitalism, Antisemitism in literature

Abstract

Sven Lidman was a Swedish author who had a great interest in the industrialization and financial growth in Sweden. In his novel Köpmän och krigare (1911) the noble family Silfverstååhl encounter what Lidman calls “the Jewish finance world”. The response to his work was of mixed character, including response of anti-Semitic character.