Buch, Swedish, Englisch, Multiple languages, 333 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 603 g
Reihe: ISSN
Buch, Swedish, Englisch, Multiple languages, 333 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 603 g
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-099841-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his (Mirror of the Jewish Religion), a description of the Jewish religion and ceremonies as practised at the time. Over 50 years before Jews were permitted to settle in Sweden in 1782, the genre of Christian ethnographical writing about Jews and Jewish rituals had arrived in Sweden from Germany. In this volume, Jonathan Adams (University of Gothenburg) introduces the background to Löwe’s "mirror" by looking at both the earlier history of Jews in Sweden and the phenomenon of ethnographical writing about Jews. The text of is presented in its original Swedish with a translation into English facing on the opposite pages. This edition includes notes explaining technical terms, identifying people and places, and translating Hebrew words and phrases. The volume also includes two works published in Sweden prior to : Bezelius’ (The Glory of Christianity [excerpts], 1684) and Seeligmann’s (On Jewish Ceremonies, 1725). The volume should be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish and Scandinavian history as well as the history of Jewish–Christian relations.
Zielgruppe
Historians, theologians, researchers of antisemitism, scholars of
