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”Vi har redan tillräckligt med judar här”.Tonsättaren Hans Holewa och exilens dubbelhet
No full textTonsättaren, radiomedarbetaren och musikern Hans Holewa (1905–1991) anlände till Sverige 1937 som landsflyktig undan den tilltagande antisemitismen i Wien, drygt ett halvår innan Österrike annekterades av Nazityskland. Som invandrad radikal tonsättare med den så kallade tolvtonstekniken som utgångspunkt, med judiskt påbrå och med engagemang inom vänsterrörelsen kom Holewas svenska exiltillvaro utgöra ett spänningsfält med många dimensioner. Följande artikel tar utgångspunkt i två aspekter kopplade till Holewas exiltillvaro, dels Holewa som representant för en radikal musikestetik, dels hans relation till det judiska. Framställningen kretsar kring frågor om hur Holewa mottogs i det svenska musiklivet i relation till hans estetiska förhållningssätt och hur hans situation kan förstås med utgångspunkt i termen ”exilens dubbelhet”. En tredje frågeställning berör vilken betydelse den judiska kulturen hade för hans exiltillvaro och tonsättarskap. * * *‘We already have enough Jews here’: composer Hans Holewa and the doubleness of exile • The composer and musician Hans Holewa (1905–1991) arrived in Sweden in 1937 after fleeing from the Nazi-influenced Austria. The following article focus on two aspects linked to Holewas exile; Holewa as a representative of a radical musical aesthetics, and his relationship to his Jewish background. The article revolves around the question of how Holewa was received in the Swedish music life in relation to his aesthetic approach and how his situation in exile can be understood by reference to the term ‘exile duality’. A third issue concerns the significance of his Jewish loyalty during exile and in his composing. The article shows how the exile could serve both as an interruption, for example in relation to his Jewish loyalty and compositional technique, but also as an expression of continuity as he was a bearer of a modern aesthetic attitude which he formulated in Austria but which had higher relevance in his Swedish exile, however, not without some opposition from the Swedish music establishment.
Färgblivandets under och det stora Duet
No full textThe purpose of this article is to map the so-called predialogical level of Martin Buber’s thinking. In Daniel (1913) Buber appears as a romantic culture critic. What is discussed in the book about realization is not dialogues in Buber’s style – rather in the style of Plato, but they are not didactic discussions – they are filled with feeling and spirit and a cosmic home-sickness. The conversations take place in a romantic landscape, a dream-like meadow when twilight sets in. Realization and meaning (Sinn) are topics in Daniel that come back in later writings. In his “Geleitwort” (1906) to the collection Die Gesellschaft Buber defines sociology as “the science of the inter-human forms”. These forms are later built into overall cosmic connections
Legislation animalistic in Nicaragua and other initiatives
Get PDFNicaragua has carried out a complicated process to have a modern Act, Act 747 of the Protection and Welfare of Animals Domestic and Domesticated Wild put in force. This note gives a short summary of the initiatives, backgrounds and prospects connected with the process
May He Speedily Come: the role of the Messiah in Haredi and Hardal Judaism
No full textThis article studies the understanding of redemption in general, and in particular the role of the Messiah in redemption as it is expressed by representatives of two Jewish perspectives: the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) and the Hardal (nationalist ultra-Orthodox). Although both perspectives see the shift from exile to redemption as an event which is brought about by God, both also see ways to accelerate or decelerate that event. Both have developed a strategy according to their respective interpretations of how the shift from exile to redemption will appear. To the Haredim, the solution calls for the Jewish people to repent, live piously and wait for the Messiah to emerge; to the Hardalim, the solution calls for the Jewish people to abandon the passive approach and engage in the process of redemption, which has already begun even though the Messiah delays. Hence, both present a strategy for expediting the End, and can thus be considered messianic
Några reflexioner apropå anvnändningen av arabisk skrift i judisk-arabiska texter
No full textThe paper discusses the use of Arabic script in Judeo-Arabic texts ca 900–1200. The point of departure is the observation that the use of the script for Arabic in the Islamic world was more or less determined by the religion of the writer. Arabic script was thus mainly used by Muslims. The Syrian Christians used Syriac script, while the Jews used Hebrew script. They even transliterated a great number of Arabic works into Hebrew script to make them available for Jewish readers. The use of Arabic script among Jews writing for Jews is thus always noteworthy. Taken together the examples mirror the close relations with contemporary Arab culture among many groups within the Jewish community
Christian relations with Judaism and Jewish people: theory and practice
No full textThe stipulation of terms, that are topics of vital importance to Judaism, is gathered around 4 subjects: 1) Scripture and tradition, 2) the idea of God, 3) the idea of man, and 4) the conception of salvation. Following each subject I shall point out possible ground for a dialogue between Jewish and Christian theologians. To my mind the relations with Judaism and the Jewish people have to be in dialogue. It is a try to move from theory to practice. In Judaism of today the interpretations and teachings of the Talmudic rabbis and sages are still valid. Not as dogmas, of which Judaism has very few, in reality there is still one, that of the one true God. This state of affairs is related to the character of Jewish tradition: It is everlasting debate
Judarna och stadsbranden: Judisk invandring och integration i det sena 1800-talets Sverige
No full textThe purpose of this investigation is to analyze aspects of Jewish integration into Swedish society during the decades following the emancipation which was carried out in 1870, by means of investigating how a Jewish migrant group was given space and was able to participate in the local society. The study shows a Jewish middle class evolving and becoming integrated into society. This group which was forced to behave carefully and balance their Jewish and their Swedish identity, came to play an important role as a link between the receiving society and the rest of the Jewish population
Benjamin fra Tudela. Rejsedagbogen i dansk oversættelse II
No full textA translation of the travel diaries of the medieval Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela
The archive of David Simonsen
No full textThe Royal Library in Copenhagen has for 50 years been in possession of an archive of extraordinary scope, bequeathed to it by the former chief rabbi in Denmark, Professor David Simonsen (1853–1932). The significance of the archive should be immediately related to the important role played by Simonsen during the First World War, in that he, after having renounces his rabbinical post in 1902, simultaneously functioned as political leader for that part of European Jewry residing in the neutral countries (i.e. the Nordic countries and Switzerland), and heads the international relief-work operations rendered to East-European Jewry during the war. All correspondence pertaining to the lot of the Jews in Eastern Europe prior to the outbreak of the war, and during the ongoing hostilities, was filed by David Simonsen with utmost care. The archive also contains letters and documents relating to his rabbinical and research activities