This thesis on Swedish-Jewish identity studies shows that this identity has been constructed between three points that can be found in Lars Dencik’s model “the diasporas star of David”, these points being “the Swedish” “the Jewish” and “the Israeli”. The thesis studies the period between 1948 to 1988 and uses Judisk Krönika as source material. The thesis looks at two keywords of importance to the Swedish Jews, the first being the summer camp “Glämsta” and the second being “religious freedom”. The usage of Albert O. Hirschmann and his theory of people in exile is used to try and se how the Swedish-Jewish group react to when questioned or when they have the need to explain their rights for maintaining a Jewish identity. The Swedish-Jewish identity was constructed and based explicitly on “the Jewish” and the “Israeli” with a small tendency to favor “the Jewish”. “The Swedish” aspect was not mentioned but can be seen as implicit because of the fact that the Jews live in Sweden. The main issue was not internal conflict within the Jewish group but rather with the Swedish majority. The results suggest that the Swedish-Jewish group based their identity on a mixture of all of the parts, just at different times. The Swedish-Jewish group changed their reasoning behind motiving their identity over time, firstly they tried to argue that there are no need to react towards Jewish traditions but later during the period they started to protest more when questioned or denied their Jewish traditions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-445349 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Bárány Kihlgren, Robert |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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