17 articles in this issue
Katrine Hassenkam Zoref
Dette års udgave af Rambam byder på en række meget forskellige artikler. Både tidsmæssigt og emnemæssigt kommer vi denne gang meget langt omkring i den spændende og meget mangfoldige verden, som dansk jødisk historie udgør.Det er i år 100 år siden Indenfo... see more
Nina Skyhøj Olsen
Wrestling with HitlerIn 1936, the Olympic Games were held in Berlin. As the only association in the Danish Sports Federation (DIF), The Danish-Jewish sports association Hakoah chose to boycott the Games.This decision was not easy to make. One of Denmark's... see more
Henrik Engelbrecht
The Consul General and the PhonographThe phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 but wasn’t widely known to the Danish people until the fall of 1889 when the successful business man and consul general, Moses Gottfried Ruben, along with his partne... see more
Cecilie S. Schrøder Simonsen
Tales that convey - the writings of M.A. GoldschmidtThe Jewish tales that author and journalist Meïr Aron Goldschmidt wrote during the second half of the nineteenth century describe the religious development and emancipation of the Jews of Western Europe ... see more
Merete Næsbye Christensen
Johanne Luise Heiberg and Mother PätgesIn November 2012, the actress Johanne Luise Heiberg would have turned 200 years. She was the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, and the seventh of eight children. Johanne Luise and her siblings were n... see more
Michael Altschul
Michael Altschul har i en årrække været fotograf. Han har ikke mindst fotograferet erhvervskunder, og han har gennem årene besøgt godt 2.000 firmaer. I flere år var han Erhvervsbladets hovedfotograf, men blev også brugt af bl.a. fagblade. Det er dog ... see more
Poul Reumert
I anledningen af 100 året for premieren på skuespillet Indenfor murene på Det Kongelige Teater bringer Rambam en kronik af Paul Reumert, som oprindeligt blev bragt i Berlingske Tidende i 1962 i anledning af 50 året. I kronikken fortæller Poul Reumert... see more
Tine Bach
Acting for Immigration. A Classic Celebrates its 100th Birthday100 years ago, the play Indenfor Murene (Inside the Walls) by Henri Nathansen premiered at the Royal Danish Theatre. Since then, the play has been set up several times but has not lost its rel... see more
Arthur Arnheim
Henri Nathansen’s Road to ZionismHenri Nathansen is known for his play Indenfor Murene (Inside the Walls) which premiered at the Royal Danish Theatre in 1912. The play, which became a big success, is centred on a Jewish family in Copenhagen and deals with... see more
Jonathan Adams
Ferocious Lions and Menstruating Men: The Perception of Jews in Medieval DenmarkThe article examines the portrayal of Jews in medieval texts written in Danish before 1515. It begins by describing the theological basis for and creation of a ‘fantasy Jew’. ... see more
Helene Apelt
"I Consider Myself a Story Teller"Sally Altschuler has written more than 30 children's books and has recently published his first novel for adults.Helene Apelt (MA in literature) has interviewed Sally Altschuler about his Jewish identity, his relationship... see more
The Life and Testimony of Josef KaufmannIn 1997, Josef Kaufmann told his life story in front of a running camera as part of the Steven Spielberg collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors, the so-called Survivor of the Shoah Visual History Foundatio... see more
Erik Henriques Bing
Did He Become a Catholic?A few years before his death in 2000, the entertainer Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum, visited the grave of his grandfather, Nathan Rosenbaum, in the Jewish cemetery in M.llegade, Copenhagen. Victor Borge had paid for a restora... see more
Esther Kvetny Jarløv
Anmeldelse af Kristian Hvidt: "Forsker, furie, frontkæmper. En bog om Lis Jacobsen", Gyldendal, 2012.
Bent Blüdnikow
Anmeldelse af Sofie Lene Bak: "Da krigen var forbi. De danske jøders hjemkomst efter besættelsen", Gyldendal, 2012.
David Jano
Anmeldelse af Kirsten Nilsson: "De gemte børn", Gyldendal, 2012.
Margit Warburg
Anmeldelse af Tine Bach: Nu bor vi her. Jødiske livsfortællinger fortalt af tolv kvinder. Tiderne Skifter, 2012.