Aaron Isaac is a visitor who closes the door behind him and carefully sets his feet on the stones of the street in Sweden’s capital. He is a stranger who holds in his hand a scrap of paper with an address on it. A drunken man staggers out of the …
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Sammanfattning
In English Aldrig tidigare har judiska författare som skriver på svenska fått sina texter samlade i en enda volym. Här får vi tillfälle att beskåda de särskilda förhållanden som präglade det judiska livet i Sverige och övriga Norden på 1900-talet. Under andra världskriget fick Sveriges lilla, väletablerade och assimilerade judiska …
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American Book Review Vol. 26, No. 6 September/October 2005 Nordic Jew Rika Lesser CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WRITING IN SWEDEN: AN ANTHOLOGY Edited by Peter Stenberg University of Nebraska Press https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu 462 pages; cloth, $60.00 More than 30 years ago, just after graduating from Yale, I lived for a year in Göteborg, …
Susanne Levin Bio
Susanne Levin was born in Uppsala in 1950 and still lives in her native city, where she is a teacher. Her first novel, Leva vidare (Live on), the story of a young Jewish girl’s search to find an identity in postwar Sweden in the wake of the Holocaust, was published …