PROGRAM CONTACT AND INFORMATION Dr. Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, TU, Saving the children. Kindertransports to Sweden 19.00 Café Alma Dinner Coordination and Contact: Friday, November 7 9.00–10.00 Room IV Keynote III Associate professor, Lena Roos, UU, Gottlieb Klein. Wissenschaft des Judentums in Sweden 10.00–10.15 Break 10.15–12.15 Room IV Session V Riksbankens jubileumsfond Dr. Elke-Vera Kotowski, MMZ, Leben und Werk von Lotte Laserstein in Deutschland und Schweden Stiftelsen Clas Groschinskys Minnesfond Dr. Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, MMZ, „Hier oben in der Nähe des Polsternes ist die Einsamkeit zu Hause.“ Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) im schwedischen Exil The Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, Universität Potsdam 12.15–13.00 Café Alma Lunch Break 13.00–13.45 Room IV Session VI Towards a common European Jewish Identity? Chair: Director of studies Noa Hermele, Paideia Paidea Panel. Alumni and current students Keynote IV Professor Dr. Lars Dencik, RUC, Diaspora and Exile 14.45 Room IV Natalie Lantz, Conference Coordinator, Forum for Jewish Studies, Uppsala University, Chair: Professor Dr. Julius H. Schoeps, MMZ Anne Weberling, MMZ, Isaak Feuerring – A Zionist Biography between Germany, Sweden and Palestine 13.45–14.45 Room IV The conference is held in English and German. An exhibition focusing on some of the topics of the conference will be on display in the main hall. Concluding Remarks German Jewish Migration to Sweden Deutsch-jüdische Emigration und Immigration nach Schweden The Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University The Forum for German Studies, Uppsala University The Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University List of Abbreviations IJGÖ GU LiU LU MMZ Paideia RUC SU SM TU UU UW ÖAW Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, Austria Gothenburg University, Sweden Linköping University, Sweden Lund University, Sweden Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, Germany Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, Sweden Roskilde University, Denmark Stockholm University, Sweden Statens Musikverk – Swedish Performing Arts Agency, Sweden Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Uppsala University, Sweden Universität Wien, Austria Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria International Conference November 5–7, 2014 University Main Building, Biskopsgatan 3 University of Uppsala Organized by the Forum for Jewish Studies (FJS), University of Uppsala and the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies (MMZ), University of Potsdam PROGRAM INTRODUCTION E ver since Aaron Isaac from Treuenbrietzen in Bran- wed to settle in Stockholm without converting to Evangelical Lutheranism, there has been close contacts between Swedish and German Jewry. German Jews have both Wednesday, November 5 Swedish Jewish Refugee Aid, Relief and Rescue Efforts during the Nazi Era 11.00–13.00 Room VIII Associate professor Malin Thor Tureby, LiU, Swedish-Jewish Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust Registration 13.00–13.30 Opening of the conference Grand Auditorium nomic life. Swedish Jews have found both spouses and 13.30–14.30 Keynote I Grand Auditorium Professor Dr. Julius H. Schoeps, MMZ, Leben in schwierigen Verhältnissen. Hans Joachim Schoeps im schwedischen Exil religious and ideological inspiration in Germany and 14.30–15.00 Coffee Break Swedish and German Jews have created commercial as 15.00–17.00 Room IV Session I in many ways contributed to Swedish cultural and eco- well as intellectual networks binding the two countries to- Chair: Dr. Olaf Glöckner, MMZ gether. 12.15–13.15 Café Alma Lunch Break 13.15–15.15 Room IV Session III Refugees from Nazi Germany & Swedish Immigration Policy II Chair: Associate professor Pär Frohnert, SU Associate professor Anders Hammarlund, SM, Lazarus - Simmel - Boas. The Jewish Reform Movement and the Origins of Kulturwissenschaft 1830–1930 Our international interdisciplinary conference in Uppsala November 5–7 2014, aims to explore the conditions for Dr. Irene Nawrocka, ÖAW, Der deutschsprachige Bermann-Fischer Verlag (S. Fischer) in Stockholm und Gottfried Bermann Fischers Zusammenarbeit mit der Verlegerfamilie Bonnier,1938–1948 Dr. Carl Henrik Carlsson, UU, Jakob Ettlinger – an ‘Untypical’ German Jew in Sweden and consequences of this interrelationship for Swedish and German Jewry and for the Swedish and German societies, from the 18th century and until today. Spe- Associate professor Henrik Rosengren, LU, Cultural Encounters. German-Jewish Composers in Swedish Exile MA Harry R Svensson, SU, The Ruben and Philip Families in Karlskrona. Swedish “Port Jews” from Germany cial attention will be given to the German-Jewish exile persecution and in general to the destiny and role of the Thursday, November 6 German-Jewish expatriates during the 1930s and 1940s 9.00–10.00 Room IV and thereafter. Associate professor Mikael Byström, UU, The Reception and Integration of Jewish Refugees and Displaced Persons into the Swedish Labor Market in the First Post-War Years Keynote II Professor Dr. Helmut Müssener, UU, Schwedisch-deutsch-jüdische Beziehungen. Eine Desideratenarie 10.00–10.15 Break 10.15–12.15 Room IV Session II Refugees from Nazi Germany & Swedish Immigration Policy I Chair: Dr. Lars M Andersson, UU Professor Dr. Michael Scholz, UU & Professor Dr. Helmut Müssener, UU, Wolfgang Steinitz, die Gründung der Emigrantenselbsthilfe und ihre Tätigkeit MA Pontus Rudberg, UU, Dr. Izabela Dahl, GU, Die Station des Lebens. Deutsche jüdische Alma Maters Töchter im schwedischen Exil 15.15–15.45 Coffee Break 15.45–17.45 Room IV Session IV Kindertransporte Chair: Associate professor Lena Roos, UU Associate professor Pär Frohnert, SU, The Swedish Israel Mission and the AustrianJewish Converts during the Holocaust Dr. Thomas Pammer, UW, The Work of Svenska Israelsmissionen in Vienna from the 1920s to the 1970s MA Merethe Aagaard Jensen, IJGÖ, Die Rettung jüdischer Kinder und Jugendlicher nach Schweden betrachtet aus einem skandinavischen Blickwinkel