• 18.10.2021 - 20.10.2021
  • 🇸🇪 Schweden / Huddinge
  • Södertörn University Stockholm, Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam, Forum for Jewish Studies and Hugo Valentin Center /University of Uppsala, Paideia Stockholm (Södertörn University Stockholm)
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Jewish-Christian Contacts, Past and Present. Sweden and Germany Compared

This conference aims to explore commonalities and differences in patterns of Jewish-Christian contacts in Germany and Sweden. It also focuses on changes over time with a special emphasis on the period from the 1870s to the present. Although the conference as a whole has a comparative theme, we also welcome papers and sessions that deal with either Germany or Sweden specifically.

Although Germany and Sweden are at the centre of the conference, presentations may expand the theme to also include other German-speaking areas of Europe as well as the other Nordic countries.

Themes covered in the conference will for instance be:

  • Coexistence and confrontation between Jews and Christians
  • Jewish-Christian dialogue
  • Jewish migration and subsequent Jewish-Christian contacts
  • Family and individual biographies
  • Jewish-Christian networks and contacts in business
  • German-Swedish cultural transfer
  • Antisemitism in Germany and Sweden
  • Conversions
  • Academic contacts in the emerging fields of Wissenschaft des Judentums and Religionswissenschaft, as well as in other academic fields
  • Feminist theology
  • Churches and their relations to the State of Israel
  • Contacts between Jews and Christian minorities
  • Judaism and Esotericism
  • Music as a field of Jewish-Christian contacts