Inhalt: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Nordic Otherness / Heß, Cordelia -- Antisemitism without Jews -- 2. "Untilled Field" or "Barren Terrain"? / Adams, Jonathan -- 3. William of Norwich in Iceland / Cole, Richard -- 4. Iceland / Vilhjálmsson, Vilhjálmur Örn -- 5. Beyond Shylock / Räthel, Clemens -- The State of Research on Antisemitism -- 6. Chronicles of a History Foretold / Bak, Sofie Lene -- 7. The Study of Antisemitism in Finland / Ahonen, Paavo / Muir, Simo / Silvennoinen, Oula -- 8. A Marginal Phenomenon? / Hoffmann, Christhard -- 9. Norwegian Antisemitism after 1945 / Simonsen, Kjetil Braut -- 10. Antisemitism in Sweden / Geverts, Karin Kvist -- Perceptions, Encounters, and the Presence of Antisemitism -- 11. Jerusalem in the North Atlantic / Gaini, Firouz -- 12. Jews in Greenland / Vilhjálmsson, Vilhjálmur Örn -- 13. Antisemitisms in the Twenty-First Century / Dencik, Lars -- Bibliography -- Index Is research on antisemitism even necessary in countries with a relatively small Jewish population? Absolutely, as this volume shows. Compared to other countries, research on antisemitism in the Nordic countries (Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) is marginalized at an institutional and staffing level, especially as far as antisemitism beyond German fascism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is concerned. Furthermore, compared to scholarship on other prejudices and minority groups, issues concerning Jews and anti-Jewish stereotypes remain relatively underresearched in Scandinavia - even though antisemitic stereotypes have been present and flourishing in the North ever since the arrival of Christianity, and long before the arrival of the first Jewish communities.This volume aims to help bring the study of antisemitism to the fore, from the medieval period to the present day. Contributors from all the Nordic countries describe the status of as well as the challenges and desiderata for the study of antisemitism in their respective countries |
