Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies
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<p><em>Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies</em> aims at promoting Jewish studies in Scandinavia by publishing scholarly articles, surveys and documents, by reviewing recent literature, and compiling bibliographies.</p>The Donner Instituteen-USNordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies0348-1646<p>The license of the published metadata is Creative Commons CCO 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)</p>Editorial
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/125018
<p>Editorial for the Volume 33, Issue 2</p>Ruth IllmanSvante Lundgren
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2022-12-192022-12-193321210.30752/nj.125018A note on rethinking Martin Buber’s ‘I consider a tree’
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/119952
<p class="p1">In the original English version of <em>I and Thou</em> (1937) and in a postscript to the second English edition (1958), Martin Buber assured his readers that an <em>I–Thou</em> relationship is possible between a person and a tree. Considering the importance of dialogue in that form of relationship, commentators have often looked for ways to bypass the tree’s inability to speak in reconceptualising the <em>I–Thou</em> relationship. This article looks instead at the importance of the person’s ability to hear what trees may be telling us as a way of understanding Buber’s point. A story found in Viktor Frankl’s <em>Man’s Search for Meaning</em> (1946) is used as an illustration.</p>Richard Raskin
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2022-12-192022-12-19332495110.30752/nj.119952The symbolic universe of the Temple
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/121801
<p class="p1">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 symbolic site of hope and longing in diasporic Judaism in manifold ways. By means of a case-study of a fifth-century synagogue in the town of Sepphoris, this article examines the synagogue and its mosaic floor to consider the hypothesis that the Jews that commissioned and used this synagogue had a self-categorised religious identity (cf. Turner <em>et al</em>. 1987) which referenced a symbolic universe of the Temple (cf. Berger and Luckmann 1966) and can be studied through visual, material and ritual symbols. It is further suggested that material and visual evidence must be seen in relation to the rituals performed in the synagogue, and the synagogue itself.</p>Johanna Bokedal
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2022-12-192022-12-1933231810.30752/nj.121801Finlandssvensk och judisk
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/125093
<p class="p1">Artikeln undersöker hur frågor om finlandssvenskhet och judiskhet kopplas samman, kontrasteras och diskuteras i intervjuer med personer som – på skiftande vis – identifierar sig med bägge identitetsmarkörer. Artikeln söker svara på frågan hur det svenska i Finland uppfattas av intervjupersonerna: rymmer detta också det judiska och känner de sig hemma i den föreställda finlandssvenskheten? Med vardagsreligiositet (<em>vernacular religion</em>) som analytisk ram söker artikeln belysa de svåra val som uppkommer i vardagen för personer som vill leva judiskt på svenska i Finland idag, samt lyfter fram hur finlandssvenska kulturtraditioner värnas och förs vidare i judisk tappning i dagens Finland.</p>Ruth Illman
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2022-12-192022-12-19332193710.30752/nj.125093Contemporary discourses on general definitions of antisemitism
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/122689
<p class="p1">This review article gives an overview of the two most influential definitions of antisemitism in Europe: the non-legally binding working definition by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and the so-called Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. Furthermore, the article explains where the definitions come from and summarises the current debates and discourses on how to define antisemitism in view of the history and politics of Europe. It also gives brief attention to the Nexus Document as a third influential definition, which plays a more important role in the United States. The article ends with a reflection on the definition offered by the historian Helen Fein, which is more action-based, and Amos Morris-Reich’s statement of the importance of reflecting on the role of language and the ability of language to create hate and to hurt.</p>Jonah Jehoshua Jürgen Bogle
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2022-12-192022-12-19332384810.30752/nj.122689Jødiske karakterer i dansk fortellende litteratur på 1800-tallet
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/122934
<p>Bokanmeldelse av Katharina Bocks <em>Philosemitische Schwärmereien. Jüdische Figuren in der dänischen Erzählliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts</em> (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2021)</p>Christhard Hoffmann
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2022-12-192022-12-19332525510.30752/nj.122934En svensk-jødisk historie
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/119682
<p>Bokanmeldelse av Johan Schücks <em>Herman Friedländer. En svensk judisk historia</em> (Stockholm: Medströms bokförlag, 2021)</p>Vibeke Kieding Banik
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2022-12-192022-12-19332565710.30752/nj.119682Handbok om svenska judars arkiv
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/122685
<p>Bokrecension av Carl Henrik Carlssons <em>Källor till judarnas historia i Sverige. Arkivguide</em> (Stockholm: Riksarkivet, 2022)</p>Kenth Sjöblom
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2022-12-192022-12-19332585910.30752/nj.122685Ett starkt bidrag till svensk-judisk historieskrivning
https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/122228
<p>Bokrecension av Göran Rosenbergs <em>Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis obesvarade kärlek</em> (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2021)</p>Daniel Leviathan
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2022-12-192022-12-19332606210.30752/nj.122228