Metadata: Jewish Museum Stockholm, assorted documents
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Stockholm
- Holding institution (official language):
- Judiska museet
- Postal address:
- Själagårdsgatan 19, 111 31 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- +46 8 30 15 00
- Web address:
- www.judiskamuseet.se
- Email:
- info@judiskamuseet.se
- Reference number:
- JUD00355-JUD00383, JUD00388-JUD00392
- Title:
- Jewish Museum Stockholm, assorted documents
- Title (official language):
- Judiska museet: Övrigt
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Museum Stockholm
- Date(s):
- 1917/1998
- Language:
- Swedish
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1 linear metre (1 large box)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection constitutes assorted textual and photographic material related to Swedish Judaism from the late 18th to the late 20th century, collected by the Jewish Museum of Stockholm. Most notably, it contains various print material produced by Swedish Jews. These include select issues of the journal Israeliten (the predecessor of Judisk Tidskrift) from 1923 to 1926, select articles written by Chief Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis (1869-1951), as well as a selection of various Swedish and international newspapers related to the Second World War and Nazi persecution of the Jews. A significant number of the printed material alludes to the history of Jewish religious and everyday life in Sweden, including numerous booklets on Jewish holidays, synagogal services, calendars, and informational material on Swedish synagogues, textual interpretations, as well as booklets with musical notes.
The history of Jewish communal and organisational life in Sweden is also well documented in the collection, with over 16 folders containing protocols, statutes, booklets, member registers and meeting excerpts from organisations such as the B’nai B’rith, the Israelite discussion association, the Hillel educational foundation, the Swedish Zionist Association, as well as of several Jewish associations in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö and Norrköping. Correspondences between key figures of these organisations and associations are also part of the collection, situated in various folders and dossiers, with Chief Rabbi Ehrenpreis’s exchanges during the war years consisting of a separate dossier. Additional material related to the genealogy of various Jewish individuals in Sweden, such as passports, visa applications, residence permits and parish registrations are also part of the collection. Apart from material on Swedish Judaism, the collection contains assorted documents (i.e. photographs, correspondences, posters and catalogues) on international Jewish communities, including the Jews of Lithuania and India. Letters, assorted articles, committee meetings and diffuse publications contain are also indicative of the relationship between the Jewish communities of Sweden and the land of Israel, at various stages and during key events of the 20th century.
Furthermore, the collection includes numerous documents related to the history and manifestations of antisemitism in Sweden, such as the nazi-affiliated magazines Tyska röster and Der Deutsche in Schweden that where in print prior to and during the Second World War. Other exhibitions hosted by the Jewish museum in the past are present in the collection in the form of photographs, brochures and exhibition programmes, among them the exhibitions “Jews in Sweden: 200 years” and “Jewish Stockholm”.
- Archival history:
- The collected material came into the museum’s collection between 1988 and 2019.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Jewish Museum Foundation (Stiftelsen judiska museet) was founded in 1987 by Viola and Aron Neuman. Initially the museum was located in a former storage unit for carpets in the harbour of Stockholm, where exhibitions about Jewish religious and cultural life were shown. In 1992 the museum was relocated to the city and the activities of the museum were broadened. In 2019 the museum moved to the premises of Stockholm’s first synagogue. The collections of the museum consist of objects and archival records that have been donated as well as actively collected by the museum.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Yael Fried; Jewish Museum of Stockholm; November 2020