This dissertation represents the first attempt to take account of the entire Swedish œuvre of Marcus Ehrenpreis and view it as a single, coherent statement, recognizing the very fundamental confrontation taking place between tradi­tional and modern ways of viewing reality and its possible resolution. A reading of his work reveals that the one constant in his life in letters was the struggle to reconcile the apparent logical antithesis of universalism and particu­larism, which this dissertation sees as one with resonance for all ethnic minorities. In the Chapter One, a general orientation in the modern Jewish world is provided, including the traditional worlds of Orthodoxy and Hasidism into which he was born; the trend toward the political emancipation of the Jews in Western and Central Europe and the subsequent waves of assimilation among young Jews; the exacerbation of antisemitic tendencies in both Eastern and Western Europe; the emergence of Jewish nationalism, commonly known as Zionism; and the renaissance of Jewish culture which crystallized around these events. Chapter Two offers a social and intellectual biography of Ehrenpreis, providing the reader with the relevant information about his youth, organizational efforts, education, and career as rabbi and author, while Chapter Three posits a perspective from which to approach his work, by describing the generational unit to which he belonged and how the concerns of his youth and early adulthood, shared by other Jewish intellectuals born around the same time as he, shaped the problems with which he grappled throughout his life. The generational perspective also allows the fundamental differences between his own generation and the generations before and after his to emerge in bold relief. It is hoped that in employing this perspective, it becomes clear that the accumulated work of Ehrenpreis can be seen as an integrated whole, which came to full expression during his thirty-five years in Sweden. In Chapter Four, Ehrenpreis' definitions of Jewish religion and Jewish culture and the difference between them are explicated, before proceeding to investigate the way in which he thought the essence of these ideas best be mediated - primarily from the pulpit in his sermons and the intellectual periodical in his writings. The latter in par­ticular he found to be an essential tool for disseminating Jewish culture in Sweden, both to Swedish Jewry and the general Swedish public. Chapters Five and Six deal with what Ehrenpreis considered the two major expressions of Jewish culture, lit­erature and historical knowledge, and the roles they played in the formation of a substantive understanding of Jew­ish culture in the modern world. For him, literature was the bearer of ethics and values and the forum within which these could be transvaluated and made germane to modern man. In his historical writings, he wished to counteract tendencies from within and without the Jewish world which either consigned the Jewish people to the past tense, or overemphasized the role of traumas and catastrophes in its history at the expense of an ongoing, positive and cre­ative Jewish cultural evolution. Chapter Seven concludes the close reading of Ehrenpreis ' Swedish authorship by concentrating on his war­time writings. In referring to the legacy of the Hebrew prophets, the essential cultural values of Jewish tradition as he perceived them emerge: The ideas of social justice, minority rights, and the goal of perpetual peace between nations. He emphasizes their significance for the development of the democratic tradition in Europe as well as their function as the pillars on which the identity of Jews in the modern world could rest. The dissertation closes with a summary of its conclusions. / digitalisering@umu

This study examines how six Jewish youth in Stockholm County experience their Jewish identity in relation to religious education and the surrounding culture. The investigation is based on three research questions: (1) How do Jewish youth perceive the representation of Judaism in school's religious education? (2) How do they feel that their Jewish identity has been influenced by religious education? (3) What impact does the cultural life outside of school have on the Jewish identity of the youth? Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data, and a thematic analysis was used to process the material. The theoretical framework for the study consists of Nancy Ammerman's theory of public narratives and identity narratives. The results indicate that the respondents are dissatisfied with how Judaism is represented in religious education. It has also not affected their identity as much as the cultural aspects. This dissatisfaction arises from the education being too general, lacking focus on lived religion, and using Christianity as a reference frame. Therefore, the respondents demand a more inclusive and nuanced approach to religious education.

O presente estudo descreve o relato de mulheres da comunidade sefaradita de São Paulo a respeito de sua trajetória familiar, memória e prática do idioma judeu-espanhol e da cultura em seu entorno. Herança de uma tradição milenar cujas origens remontam à presença judaica na Península Ibérica sob o Império Islâmico, foi um dos poucos elementos carregados na bagagem após a expulsão dos judeus sefaraditas pelos Reis Católicos em 1492. Esta cultura se solidificou na nova pátria sob o Império Otomano na região dos Bálcãs e Turquia e foi transmitida através das gerações predominantemente no ambiente doméstico, guardando forte relação com o universo feminino, que distante da prática religiosa formal em hebraico criou seu próprio sistema de ritos na língua vernácula judaica. Enfrentando uma segunda diáspora após a derrocada do Império e principalmente após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma parte desta população estabeleceu-se na cidade de São Paulo, constituindo uma minoria dentre a comunidade judaica local. A fim de praticar o idioma e os costumes de seus antecessores, um grupo de mulheres se reuniu mensalmente entre os anos de 1992 e 2013, mantendo viva esta memória e preservando seu legado para as novas gerações / The present study describes the narrative of women from the Sephardic community of Sao Paulo about their family history, memory and practice of the Judeo-Spanish language and the culture around it. As the heritage of an ancient tradition whose origins date back to the Jewish presence in the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic Empire, it was one of the few elements loaded in the baggage after the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. This culture was solidified in their new homeland under the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and Turkey, and was transmitted through generations predominantly in the household, keeping a strong relationship with the feminine universe, which being away from the formal religious practice in Hebrew, created its own system of rites in the Jewish vernacular. Facing a second diaspora after the collapse of the Empire and especially after World War II, part of the population settled in the city of São Paulo, constituting a minority of the local Jewish community. In order to practice the language and customs of their predecessors, a group of women met monthly between the years 1992 and 2013, keeping this memory alive and preserving its legacy for future generations

O presente estudo descreve o relato de mulheres da comunidade sefaradita de São Paulo a respeito de sua trajetória familiar, memória e prática do idioma judeu-espanhol e da cultura em seu entorno. Herança de uma tradição milenar cujas origens remontam à presença judaica na Península Ibérica sob o Império Islâmico, foi um dos poucos elementos carregados na bagagem após a expulsão dos judeus sefaraditas pelos Reis Católicos em 1492. Esta cultura se solidificou na nova pátria sob o Império Otomano na região dos Bálcãs e Turquia e foi transmitida através das gerações predominantemente no ambiente doméstico, guardando forte relação com o universo feminino, que distante da prática religiosa formal em hebraico criou seu próprio sistema de ritos na língua vernácula judaica. Enfrentando uma segunda diáspora após a derrocada do Império e principalmente após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma parte desta população estabeleceu-se na cidade de São Paulo, constituindo uma minoria dentre a comunidade judaica local. A fim de praticar o idioma e os costumes de seus antecessores, um grupo de mulheres se reuniu mensalmente entre os anos de 1992 e 2013, mantendo viva esta memória e preservando seu legado para as novas gerações / The present study describes the narrative of women from the Sephardic community of Sao Paulo about their family history, memory and practice of the Judeo-Spanish language and the culture around it. As the heritage of an ancient tradition whose origins date back to the Jewish presence in the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic Empire, it was one of the few elements loaded in the baggage after the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. This culture was solidified in their new homeland under the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and Turkey, and was transmitted through generations predominantly in the household, keeping a strong relationship with the feminine universe, which being away from the formal religious practice in Hebrew, created its own system of rites in the Jewish vernacular. Facing a second diaspora after the collapse of the Empire and especially after World War II, part of the population settled in the city of São Paulo, constituting a minority of the local Jewish community. In order to practice the language and customs of their predecessors, a group of women met monthly between the years 1992 and 2013, keeping this memory alive and preserving its legacy for future generations

O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo da cultura ídiche através do cantar e do seu significado para os imigrantes e descendentes dessa vertente cultural no Brasil. O cantar ídiche foi um dos elos que esses indivíduos mantiveram com suas raízes. Esses vínculos foram investigados através de entrevistas e relatos de suas memórias. O objetivo desta tese foi retratar o passado vivo de um grupo cultural que sempre cultivou formas de expressão musical no seu cotidiano e seu significado. O resultado do trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância do cantar na preservação dessa cultura musical e sobre questões relativas à identidade judaica brasileira. Os gêneros musicais ídiches acalentam a saudade velada e simbólica que os imigrantes e seus descendentes sentem do território evocativo do ídiche. O cancioneiro ídiche traz, no plano coletivo e individual, uma herança apreciada de forma universal e crescente, por diversas esferas culturais. / This work presents both a study about the Yiddish culture through singing and its meaning to the Jewish immigrants and their cultural descendants in Brazil. Yiddish singing has been one of the common bonds these individuals chose to stick to their roots; bonds which have been investigated through interviews and also by listening to peoples memories. The aim of this thesis is to portray the memorable past of a cultural group that has kept ways of musical expression in their daily lives. The results of this work poses both a reflection on the importance of singing to keep this musical culture and also on matters related to the Jewish- Brazilian identity. Yiddish musical genres nourish a veiled and symbolic nostalgia these immigrants descendants have of their Yiddish evocative territory. Moreover, Yiddish songs carry individual and collective cultural heritage which is increasingly appreciated worldwide.

Some Turkish Jewish women have been serving the elderly staying in the geriatric unit of the Jewish Or-Ahayim Hospital in Istanbul. Their group is recognized as &lsquo / the Pink Angels.&rsquo / The volunteer women at the Jewish hospital founded a group in 1974, and Nuket Antebi named this group &lsquo / the Pink Angels.&rsquo / Today this group of women is divided into three subgroups: (1) those who offer chat and art therapies, after having been trained, (2) those who distribute foods and beverages, deal with donations, are involved in the preparation process of jam jars, and offer memorial services, and (3) those who assume both duties. The Pink Angels who serve as therapists contribute to the attainment of world peace locally in Istanbul by chatting and reading various texts belonging to various world cultures in the chat therapies and making the patients create works of art and sing songs related to different cultural occasions in the art therapies by promoting global moral values. Sometimes they promote the moral values of other religious and cultural groups by celebrating different feasts and narrating stories belonging to these diverse groups by underscoring the concept unity in diversity and imposing upon the patients that they constitute a family in the hospital. Moreover, not only the foods and beverages the Pink Angels distribute, but also the jam jars and gift baskets they prepare carry Turkish Jewish symbols. This thesis based on fieldwork tests the hypotheses that the Pink Angels employ positive symbols in the therapies and activities they conduct, avoid talking about negative issues, such as sadness and death, not only the therapies, but also all the other activities that the Pink Angels conduct evoke happiness and joy in the patients as long as the Turkish Jewish culture is reproduced, since the patients feel as if they were at home, and several intercultural peace building techniques are employed in the therapies together with symbols and metaphorical imagery emphasizing the importance of peace between different religious and ethnic groups by mentioning the commonalities between them, and the rules obeyed by the Pink Angels provide the patients with comfort, since they conceive that they are in a serious and secure place. Furthermore, the foods cooked everyday in the hospital and the music the patients listen to during the therapies reflect the transcultural identities of the Turkish Jews whose ancestors had lived in different countries and interacted with various cultural groups. Symbolic interactionism is employed in analyzing all of these.

O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo da cultura ídiche através do cantar e do seu significado para os imigrantes e descendentes dessa vertente cultural no Brasil. O cantar ídiche foi um dos elos que esses indivíduos mantiveram com suas raízes. Esses vínculos foram investigados através de entrevistas e relatos de suas memórias. O objetivo desta tese foi retratar o passado vivo de um grupo cultural que sempre cultivou formas de expressão musical no seu cotidiano e seu significado. O resultado do trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância do cantar na preservação dessa cultura musical e sobre questões relativas à identidade judaica brasileira. Os gêneros musicais ídiches acalentam a saudade velada e simbólica que os imigrantes e seus descendentes sentem do território evocativo do ídiche. O cancioneiro ídiche traz, no plano coletivo e individual, uma herança apreciada de forma universal e crescente, por diversas esferas culturais. / This work presents both a study about the Yiddish culture through singing and its meaning to the Jewish immigrants and their cultural descendants in Brazil. Yiddish singing has been one of the common bonds these individuals chose to stick to their roots; bonds which have been investigated through interviews and also by listening to peoples memories. The aim of this thesis is to portray the memorable past of a cultural group that has kept ways of musical expression in their daily lives. The results of this work poses both a reflection on the importance of singing to keep this musical culture and also on matters related to the Jewish- Brazilian identity. Yiddish musical genres nourish a veiled and symbolic nostalgia these immigrants descendants have of their Yiddish evocative territory. Moreover, Yiddish songs carry individual and collective cultural heritage which is increasingly appreciated worldwide.

The diploma thesis focuses on the design of a new synagogue in Jihlava, and other objects for the Jewish community. These are administrative building, restaurant and a museum. The area where we work is large and it is therefore important to solve the area as well as urbanistically. The diploma project solves a separate building of the synagogue, an administrative building with a courtyard for the Jewish community, a separate restaurant place in tower moat, and two buildings located in the gap of an existing building. One of these objects is used for the Jewish culture museum, the second is polyfunctional. Furthermore, the park areas and underground parking is being solved.

A dissertação Sukot e Purim Festividades na Educação Infantil: um encontro da infância e da cultura judaica localiza-se na área de conhecimento da Cultura Judaica que corresponde a um segmento do currículo da Educação Infantil das escolas judaicas de São Paulo. O objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender como as crianças integram a cultura judaica em seus processos de aprendizagem. A pesquisa teve como ponto de partida o estudo sobre o desenvolvimento do pensamento infantil e a concepção de infância, que alicerçam os Referenciais Curriculares do Brasil e de Israel, os quais compõem os currículos das escolas judaicas do Brasil. Para tal, resgata a concepção de infância no decorrer dos séculos XIX e XX, e descreve os primórdios do estabelecimento da educação infantil relacionado às diversas influências políticas, econômicas, culturais e ideológicas de cada momento histórico. O estudo do desenvolvimento infantil tem como referência os estudos de Jean Piaget e a compreensão do desenvolvimento da linguagem segundo Vygotsky. A segunda parte do trabalho teve como foco o estudo das festividades Sukot e Purim, elementos da cultura judaica, que foram escolhidos pela sua diversidade de símbolos e costumes e pelo seu aspecto lúdico. Na última etapa foi realizada a coleta de dados com grupos de crianças, de um ano e quatro meses a cinco anos, em uma escola judaica de São Paulo. A análise dos dados baseou-se no repertório expresso pelas crianças que, após a tabulação, evidenciou o conhecimento e a compreensão acerca das festividades, de cada grupo. / The dissertation Sukot and Purim Festivities in Childrens Education: a gathering of infancy and the Jewish Culture, corresponds to a parcel of the Childrens Education curriculum in the Jewish schools of the city of Sao Paulo. The purpose of the research is to understand how children integrate the Jewish Culture in their learning process. The research started with the analysis of childrens thinking process development and the concept of infancy that work as references for Israel and Brazils Curriculum conception and constitute the Jewish Schools curriculum in Brazil. In order to do this, the thesis retrieves the concept of infancy during the XIX and XX centuries and describes the beginning of childrens education under the influence of politics, economy and culture in different historical moments. Jean Piagets studies and the comprehension of language development according to Vygotsky were the theoretical references for the study of childrens development. The second part of the thesis focuses on the study of Sukot and Purim festivities, which are Jewish Culture elements and were chosen due to their symbols and traditions diversity and their playful aspect. The last part the thesis shows the data collection among children between the age of sixteen months and five years, in a Jewish School located in the city of Sao Paulo. The analysis of the data was based on childrens comments. The analysis of the data showed the knowledge and comprehension of the festivities in the different groups.

Olhares brasileiros judaicos: A presença do judaísmo na arte brasileira contemporânea pretende mostrar vestígios da cultura judaica na arte brasileira contemporânea. Os imigrantes judeus que chegaram ao Brasil no século XX trouxeram consigo, em sua maioria, um pensamento liberal do judaísmo que influenciou a relação com as artes plásticas dentro do judaísmo europeu. O presente trabalho parte da hipótese de que a aproximação do judaísmo e artes plásticas também teve continuidade no Brasil, uma vez que os judeus imigrantes vindos de Europa e as gerações seguintes conseguiram integrar-se com sucesso na sociedade brasileira. A questão central, portanto, é saber em que formas e conteúdos essa influência cultural se articula. É apresentada a primeira geração de artistas judeus no Brasil, que forneceu impulsos importantes para o desenvolvimento da arte moderna, tendo como pano de fundo a evolução cultural e artística do judaísmo e sua compreensão emancipada da proibição bíblica de representação de imagens. Porém, exceto por Lasar Segall, encontram-se marcas judaicas na arte brasileira apenas na segunda metade do século XX. Através da obra de quatro artistas judeus brasileiros escolhidos, cuja análise não pretende ser absolutamente completa e representativa, na parte central desta tese são constatados elementos de cultura judaica na criação artística que se fazem notar tanto sob o aspecto formal e de conteúdo quanto em posições éticas, religiosas dos artistas. Dali resulta uma forma híbrida de cultura ou identidade brasileira e judaica: olhares brasileiros judaicos. Do ponto de vista da metodologia são significativos, além das entrevistas realizadas com os artistas, os tratados científicos sob arte judaica e artistas judeus, que possibilitam uma contextualização global. / Brazilian-Judeo Gazes: The presence of Judaism in contemporary Brazilian art attempts to identify vestiges of Hebrew culture in Brazilian contemporary art. Jewish immigrants to Brazil during the 20th century brought with them, largely, a liberal Jewish thinking which influenced the relationship of the plastic arts in European Judaism. This present work stems from the hypothesis that the approximation of Judaism and the plastic arts had continuity in Brazil, once the Jewish immigrants coming from Europe and subsequent generations were able to successfully integrate themselves into Brazilian society. The central question, therefore, is to know the forms and types of content this cultural influence articulated with. Within, we present the first generation of Jewish artists in Brazil who provided important impulses for the development of modern art, and which served as the underlying fabric for the Jewish cultural and artistry evolution with its emancipated understanding from the biblical prohibition on the representation of images. However, except for Lasar Segall, distinct Jewish hallmarks in Brazilian art make their appearance only at the second half of the 20-century. Through the work of four selected Brazilian-Judeo artists, whose analysis does not intend to be absolutely complete and representative, there is in the central part of this thesis, verifiable Jewish elements in the artistic creation which standout as much for their formal aspects and content as their ethical and religious positions of the artists. From there a hybrid form of the culture resulted or, Brazilian-Judeo identity: olhares brasileiros judaicos (Brazilian-Judeo Gazes). The methodological aspects of this study are significant, in addition to interviews conducted with the artists, there are scientific treatises about Jewish art and Jewish artists that allow for a global contextualization of the subject.