ISBN:
9783110986938
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 333 p.)
Edition:
Issued also in print
Year of publication:
2024
Series Statement:
Religious Minorities in the North 6
Series Statement:
History, Politics, and Culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
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Christian Petter Löwe
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Judaism
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Swedish text
;
early modern period
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edition
Abstract:
In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion), a description of the Jewish religion and ceremonies as practised at the time. Over 50 years before Jews were permitted to settle in Sweden in 1782, the genre of Christian ethnographical writing about Jews and Jewish rituals had arrived in Sweden from Germany. In this volume, Jonathan Adams (University of Gothenburg) introduces the background to Löwe's "mirror" by looking at both the earlier history of Jews in Sweden and the phenomenon of ethnographical writing about Jews. The text of Speculum is presented in its original Swedish with a translation into English facing on the opposite pages. This edition includes notes explaining technical terms, identifying people and places, and translating Hebrew words and phrases. The volume also includes two works published in Sweden prior to Speculum: Bezelius' Die Herrlichkeit des Christenthums (The Glory of Christianity [excerpts], 1684) and Seeligmann's Jüdischer Ceremonien (On Jewish Ceremonies, 1725). The volume should be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish and Scandinavian history as well as the history of Jewish-Christian relations
Note:
Issued also in print
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110986938
