Zionism in Sweden

Zionism in Sweden

The first Zionist Congresses left the Jewish majority in Sweden relatively untouched. It is true that Professor Gottlieb Klein, the influential Rabbi of Stockholm, a student and personal friend of the great German reformer, Abraham Geiger, and to a lesser extent his colleague in Gothenburg, Dr. Koch...

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Main Author: Morton Narrowe
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Donner Institute 1981-09-01
Series:Nordisk Judaistik
Subjects:
Jews > Sweden
Zionism
Judaism > Congresses
Yiddish language
Rabbis
World War, 1914-1918
Online Access:https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/69364
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Nordisk Judaistik
Jews -- Sweden
Zionism
Judaism -- Congresses
Yiddish language
Rabbis
World War, 1914-1918
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author_sort Morton Narrowe
title Zionism in Sweden
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title_full Zionism in Sweden
title_fullStr Zionism in Sweden
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publisher Donner Institute
series Nordisk Judaistik
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2343-4929
publishDate 1981-09-01
description The first Zionist Congresses left the Jewish majority in Sweden relatively untouched. It is true that Professor Gottlieb Klein, the influential Rabbi of Stockholm, a student and personal friend of the great German reformer, Abraham Geiger, and to a lesser extent his colleague in Gothenburg, Dr. Koch, did oppose the Jewish national movement, but not until January 1910, when the first Zionist society was founded in Stockholm, did Swedish Jews seriously consider this alternative to their “prophetic” Judaism. Efforts by the Zionists in Sweden to gain public attention for themselves were mainly ineffectual until Kurt Blumenfeld, the General Secretary and Chief of Information for the World Zionist Organization in Berlin, visited Stockholm and Gothenburg in 1912 to deliver several open lectures.                              
topic Jews -- Sweden
Zionism
Judaism -- Congresses
Yiddish language
Rabbis
World War, 1914-1918
url https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/69364
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