12 articles in this issue
Allan Falk
Dette års udgave af Rambam har ikke noget tema, men viser mangfoldigheden af begrebet "Dansk Jødisk Historie".
Eva Sverdrup-Jensen
Uncle Benny's PaintingsBenny Cohn was born in 1896 into a Jewish/Christian family. He always wanted to be a painter and his family supported him. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1917. He won a golden medal and a travel stipend i... see more
Maja Gildin Zuckerman
A Roundtrip to Palestine – the Roots of Danish Zionism in PalestineLouis Herman Frænkel (1868-1935) founded the Danish Zionist Association (Dansk Zionistforening) and chaired the association until the First World War. Through his Zionist leadership, his r... see more
Frauke Dettmer
Tolerance in the Age of MercantilismIn 1684, Jews were allowed to settle in the core regions of Denmark. But already in the beginning of the 17th century, cities in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, where the Danish king, through complex dynastic and... see more
Robert Fischermann
Visit in TheresienstadtThe background of the article is Robert Fischermann’s visit to Terezin (Theresienstadt) in the spring of 2015. The occasion was the recording of a TV programme with former Danish prisoners of the concentration camp who had been ther... see more
Carl Otto Dethlefsen
Goodbye TheresienstadtThe film Goodbye Theresienstadt was directed by Jonatan Jerichow and the author of this article. This is a short recap of the making of the film and afterthoughts regarding the organisation of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. T... see more
Finn Schwarz
Your Brother's GuardianIn this article, one of the founders of the Danish Jewish security system explains the background for establishing the system in the beginning of the 1980s. The author follows the Jewish security system from the start up to the pres... see more
Mads Tobias Bundsgaard
Antisemitism in Lucky PerThis article examines Henrik Pontoppidan’s novel Lucky Per (Danish: Lykke-Per) by bringing two perspectives into focus: a Jewish and an anti-Semitic. The article begins with a count of all the animal characteristics that are used ... see more
Anmeldelse af:Arthur Arnheim: Truet minoritet søger beskyttelse - Jødernes historie i Danmark. Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2015.
Karsten Christensen
Anmeldelse af:Arthur Arnheim: At være jøde - essays om jøder og jødedom. Forlaget Goldberg & Mor, 2015.
Margit Warburg
Anmeldelse af:Anna-Lise Bjerager: Det gælder dit liv. Bent Lexner om jødedom og eksistens. Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag, 2015.
Anmeldelse af:Jacob Halvas Bjerre: Udsigt til forfølgelse. Det danske udenrigsministerium og de europæiske jødeforfølgelser 1938-1945. Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2015.