Search Results - "Nordisk Judaistik"

Review of Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Afterlives: Jewish and Non­Jewish Polish Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Sweden Documenting Nazi Atrocities, 1945–1946. Ph.D. thesis, Linköping University, 2023. 278 pp.

In his dissertation on Hegel’s conception of the State (1920), Franz Rosenzweig highlighted the role of Christianity in Hegel’s conception of the emergence of the universal. In is subsequent magnum opus, Der Stern der Erlösung (1921), a corner-stone in the history of modern Jewish thought, he is dri...

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Review of Lucie Widl (ed. Norbert Götz), From Kindertransport to Post­war Sweden: My Memories. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, The Institute of Contemporary History / Samtidshistoriska institutet, 2025. 85 pp.

This article discusses the Austrian-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber’s theopolitical challenge to the German jurist Carl Schmitt’s political theology of sovereignty, an until recently largely overlooked contribution to the long array of 20thcentury critical engagements with the Schmittean secularizat...

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Introduction to the Special Issue 

English-born philosopher and sociologist Gillian Rose (1947-1995) and French Trotskyist activist and philosopher Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) were born a mere year apart. While their work departs from the respective strands of Western Marxism and its focus on aesthetics and philosophy versus a Trotsk...

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Review of Carl Henrik Carlsson, Integration mot alla odds? En longitudinell kohortstudie av östjudars barn i Sverige, 1880–1920. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Jewish Studies 2. ISBN 978-91-513-2158-5. 165 pp.

As author I naturally cannot object to any criticism of my work in the review. Nevertheless, it contains some elements which cannot be considered scholarly criticism but simple accusations. Since these are not corroborated by any evidence such as quotations from my book or pertain to the category o...

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Recension av Andreas Gedin, Lycklig den som kan glömma. Ett liv i 1900­-talets Europa. Lund: Historiska Media, 2023. 420 sidor.

Review of Kitty Millet, Kabbalah and Literature. London, New York & Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. ISBN 978-15-013-5970-5. 272 pp.

This article probes the writings of the Jewish Trotskyist thinker Daniel Bensaïd (1946–2010) in light of recent debates on political theology. In contrast to what is sometimes explicitly referred to as ‘apocalyptic political theology’, it makes a case for what may be described as a ‘prophetic polit...

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