Essays about: "Jews"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 32 essays containing the word Jews.

1. 6. Goggan, avocado plants and Stockholmskosher : Doing Jewishness in contemporary Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Hanna Nir; [2022]
   Keywords : Jewishness; Jewish experience; doing Jewishness; practice theory; lived religion; Jewish life in Sweden; youth;

   Abstract : This study seeks to understand how young Swedish Jews experience their Jewishness in contemporary Sweden. Many have tried to understand Jewishness through surveys. However, this study uses a qualitative approach as well as the lens of lived religion and theories of practice to move focus to how people do their Jewishness. READ MORE

3. 7. Agency in the Warsaw Ghetto : An Intersectional Analysis of the Daily Life, Survival, and Death of Elderly Jews

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Janika Raisch; [2022]
   Keywords : Holocaust; Genocide; Warsaw ghetto; Second World War; Nazi; Nazis; Poland; Warsaw; Jews; Polish Jews; Ghettoisation; Ghettoization; Ghetto; Ghettos; Jewish council; Jewish Self-Help; Elderly; Elderly Jews; Old age; Intersectionality; Agency;

   Abstract : In Holocaust research, the study of elderly Jews in Nazi German ghettos remains a blind spot. This thesis begins to fill the research gap by exploring the everyday life of elderly Jews and their agency under the structural conditions of the Warsaw ghetto. READ MORE

4. 8. Holocaust Child Survivors in Sweden : Organisation and Policies for Rehabilitation of Jewish Child Survivors in Sweden, 1945-1949

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Katharina Dahlmann; [2022]
   Keywords : Holocaust; Genocide; Sweden; Child survivors; rehabilitation; Aftermath; Jews; Rabbi Council; Statens Utlänningskommission; Jewish community; ;

   Abstract : This Master thesis is a historical case study of the rehabilitation process of Jewish children who came to Sweden at the end of the Second World War and shortly afterwards. Using a contextual approach, this thesis addresses a lacuna in Holocaust research about rehabilitation of child survivors in the context of refugee aid provided by Sweden after the Second World War. READ MORE

5. 9. The Abraham Accords: Yesterday’s foes, tomorrow's friends? : A Qualitative case analysis of the Geopolitical-Economic drivers of the AbrahamNormalization Accords

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Adel Harmoush; [2022]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Throughout the years that followed the establishment of the state of Israel, the relations between the Arabs and Israel have never been open and transparent as they were after the announcement of the Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords refer to the normalization agreement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain that was announced on the the15th of September 2020. READ MORE

6. 10. People, Class, or People as Class? : The Swedish Left, the Jews, and the state of Israel post-1967

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Alexander Johansson; [2022]
   Keywords : People-as-class; people; class; antizionism; left-wing antisemitism; morphology; socialism; communism; nationalism; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; post-1967;

   Abstract : This study is an analytical investigation of the usage of the concept “people” and its relation to “class” in the Swedish left-wing antizionist repertoire post-1967. Relying on a critical Marxist understanding of antisemitism and nationalism, the study attempts to understand how and explain how the political left reproduced the antisemitic conspiracist structure of the “powerful Jews” through anti-imperialist nationalism. READ MORE