Lars Gustafsson, born in Västerås in 1936, is one of Europe’s most acclaimed writers. He has published scores of novels, poetry books, travel writings, plays, and critical essays, covering areas ranging from literary criticism through philosophy to politics. For several decades he has been one of the most prominent cultural …

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 …

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 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 …