Essays about: "Swedish Jews"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Swedish Jews.

  1. 1. Can Hatescan Detect Antisemitic Hate Speech

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap

    Author : Olle Nyrén; [2023]
    Keywords : Artificial intelligence; hate speech detection; hate speech; antisemitism;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on how well Hatescan, a hate speech detector built on the same Natural Language Processing and AI algorithms used in most online hate speech detectors, can detect different categories of antisemitism as well as whether or not it is worse at detecting implicit antisemitism than explicit antisemitism. The ability of hate speech detectors to detect antisemitic hate speech is a pressing issue. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. 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. 4. 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

  6. 5. "Sweden is our destiny, Jewishness is our destiny." Swedish Jews and their idenity in relation to Sweden, Israel and Jewishness in general, 1948- 1988.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Robert Bárány Kihlgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Swedish-Jewish identity; Jewish identity in the diaspora; Judisk Krönika.;

    Abstract : This thesis on Swedish-Jewish identity studies shows that this identity has been constructed between three points that can be found in Lars Dencik’s model “the diasporas star of David”, these points being “the Swedish” “the Jewish” and “the Israeli”. The thesis studies the period between 1948 to 1988 and uses Judisk Krönika as source material. READ MORE