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Tomas Böhm was born in Stockholm in 1945 and is a medical doctor, psychoanalyst, and author. He has published many articles in psychoanalytical journals and is the author of five popular works about psychoanalysis. He has also published five novels. The Vienna Jazz Trio (2000), focusing on the story of …

He saw that she was a sleepwalker balancing on a slack rope over the abyss. Unbidden, he took it upon himself to be her safety net. They met about a year after she had left the hospital against the doctors’ recommendation. They met, and she stayed with him. He did …

Imagining Jewish Culture in the Land of the Vikings This volume may seem to be the least likely one to appear in the series called Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World. The land of the Vikings is hardly the first place one imagines when thinking about the Jewish Diaspora. In …

Per Wästberg was born in 1933 in Stockholm. He published his first prose work, Pojke med såpbubblor (Boy with soap bubbles), as a fifteen-year-old in 1949, received his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard in 1955, and earned his Ph.D. from Uppsala in 1962 with a thesis on the African …

Roland Schütt was born in 1913 in Sweden. His mother, Zipa, is the heroine of the following excerpt, which is the opening of his first book. Born in Russia, she fled to Sweden as a seventeen-year-old and married Roland’s father, Fritiof, who is the hero. Roland spent his working life …

Göran Rosenberg was born in 1948 in Sweden, where he studied philosophy, political science, and journalism and where he has been working as a journalist for Swedish Radio and Television and for major Swedish newspapers. He holds an honorary doctorate from Göteborg University. In 1990 he founded the Swedish monthly …

Joakim Philipson was born in 1958 in Stockholm. He pursued undergraduate studies in the history of ideas, philosophy, mathematics, Russian, and Hebrew at the Universities of Umeå, Stockholm, and Uppsala and has published articles on art, philosophy, and medicine in a number of newspapers and magazines. His novel Tecknet och …

Zenia Marcinkowski was born in the Polish city of Lodz in 1922, the only child of a Jewish barber. When she was seventeen the Nazis invaded and conquered Poland. The two hundred thousand Jews of Lodz ended up in one of the largest ghettos, where many of the healthy were …

One day something happened that was a determining factor in everything I did after that. The boss, who seemed to have developed a certain liking for me, called me in for a confidential talk. He showed me a top-secret report written by two Slovakian Jews, Alfred Wetzler and Walter Rosenberg, …

Erland Josephson is best known as an actor. He has starred in many films under the direction of Ingmar Bergman and is perhaps most familiar for his portrayals of central figures in Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander. He has also been a premier stage actor for more …