PE &TROT EWISA ROPIlair
SWEDEN, A NORDIC COUNTRY WHERE
THE JEWS ARE AS GOOD NORDICS
AS THE SWEDES THEMSELVES
The Merchants of Flint greet
You With a Happy and
Prosperous New Year
who were not included in this cen- I the Jewish youth with a love for
sus. Some of the leading Jews in Zionism. I got a peculiar thrill,
Sweden today trace their ancestry almost a shock, when I walked
to the Jews who were enrolled in through the halls of the Hebrew
that census.
school and heard the youngsters
Impoevrished Jews.
singing Chalutzim songs. White
During the first decade of the hair, pink cheeks and blue eyes-1
By THELMA NURENBERG
nineteenth century, when streams no obviously Nordic—yet no defiant- I
of Jewish population flowed into ly Zionistic. The spirit of Juda-
SUITOR'S NOTE:—With hardly more erant rulers. She extended an in-
Sweden, many of them were pov- ism, or shall I say Zionism, is be-
Jews within its borders than • good-
st.(' street to New York, Sweden h.. vitation to men of science and let- erty stricken families who were un- ing brought back into the home via ,
, generally been tolerant to its ,Iewbh tern to come to her court. Dr. Ben- able to adjust themselves ecenomi- the youth of Israel.
.'
burgher.. Ina country of Nordica in. edictus de Castro (Baruch
call in Sweden. Swedish people
ow..,...
re els Nordic ali their neighbor+.
While the Jews were permitted
This
rticle traces the origin of the miss, 1597-1684) of Hamburg, a brought complaints against them, to remain in Sweden because of
Jews in Sweden and give+ +mite interest. man well known as a scientist, was
claiming
that
they
were
resorting
their
business ability—it it as poets, I
ing midelight an to their history and con- urged to come to her court. On es-
to dishonest business methods. Sonia artists, writers and philosophers
rtmoorsry importance.
tablishing himself Dr. De Castro
of the Jews were so impoverished that they are distinguishing them-
Although Jews were said to have entered into communication with they depended on the state, and the syves. Swedish culture abounds
been in Sweden during the time of Manasseh hen Israel, describing mercy of others, for their very with contributions from Jewish'
the Vikings, there is no evidence the possibilities of the land for his
bread. So that Parliament voted a • sources, even far out of proportion
to substantiate this belief. ugo
H co-religionists. A few Jews re- law which decreed that Jews must t o their small numbers. Oscar •
the sponded to his invitation. Before
sign an affidavit as to their finan- Levertin, poet, is revered by the
Valentin in his "History of
I Jews in Sweden" states that whe 1685 there were no rules pertain- cial condition. Jews who could not Swedes as well as Jews. Ernest
hack from their ing to Jews, therefore there were no
the Swedes came n
support themselves were deported, Josephson, painter and poet, is so
predatory raids in Russia, they obstacles preventing them from and incoming Jews had to give popular in Sweden that they say
"Whot It's Insurance It's
living and trading in Sweden. And
brought with them many captives.
proof that they would not become of him, he has in his painting what
I Among them were natives of Ka- as they never tried to make con- dependent on the state or commun- Beethoven has in his music." End-
verts of the Swedes, (as did the ity
zan. They had been observed wor-
for suport, before they were less discussions are carried on
shipping in a different mariner, and • Catholics) they were generally perrnited to enter. about him, some arguing that he
le from intolerance and perse-
supposedly a different dirty than !csoution .
Again a wave of tolerance and was too modern, that ho lived long
in 1838 regulations against tho before his time. Sweden stands
1 the other natives.
Description '
R. F. GIBBS
points a great similarity to the I No Rights For Non-Lush
Jews were annulled. In Partin- , proudly by him, and his works line
E. F. GIBBS
•Jewish custom of worship, at that I By the eighteenth century Luth- ment, from 1847 to 1848 many bills I the wall in the Museum at Stock-
I period. But the first Jew to be eranism had not only become the were introduced which were friend- , holm. Martin Lamm was the first
'officially recognized, and recorded state religion, but the Swedes had ly to the Jews. The House of No-'I Jewish leader of the Swedish Arad-
' in Swedish court chronicles was a I developed an intensity for religion bility tried to stop the agitation for' i.my. This academy comprises the
1 Dr. l'hillipis Wulf, court physician' which woo paralleled only by the these bills and it was not before 18 men who yearly give the Nobel
405.406 Genesee Bank Bldg.
Phone 2.5951
; Catholics in Spain and Portugal; 186(1 that they were defeated. One I prize to the outstanding work in
to the royal family in 1557.
I The earliest definitely known i I with the difference, however, that of the bills most advantageous for • literature. Hugo Valentine, his-
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contact between the Jews and i its natural outcome, intolerance, the Jews was the right to buy prop- torian, Henrik Schick, Prof. Carl
Swedes was in the eleventh century I resulted not in n persecution, but . in erty. King Charles IV, approved Warburg, member of Parliament,
these friendly
when the Polish and German Jews' a gradual elimination of rights for
journalist and professor of Litera-
s %
.
were
adopted whereby lure in the Stockholm University,
visited Sweden as traders. But it non-Lutherans. Prohibitive edicts
was not until the period of the enacted were promulgated for Jews the Jews became subjects of Swe- I Albert Bonnier, editor and publish- ,
Reformation when Europe began to as well as Catholics. Among the den with complete equality of er , head of the leading ublishin • r
stir with intolerance and persecu- 13 prohihitive act were: no fran- ricAhlttsh .
Alth ough the present total of house in Sweden, Abraham Nach-
tion that the German Jews began chive, no court protection, therefore,
manson, philanthropist, Louis
no right to sue, no Jie.wlitci,,, au l dinhfoold. Jews in Sweden is not on record, Fraenckel, managing director of
to migrate to Sweden.
I
the
accepted figure approximates
The first official acquiescence to a state position, no
the Stockholm Handelsbank; these
FROM
Jews as subjects came during the ence of any kind, no institutions 12,500. Swedish is the language are but a few of the names of those
commonly used. The Jew has who have aided progress in Swe-
time to Queen Christine, one of for religious observances and edu• mast
so assimilated
a
d that one never knows den.
Sweden's most enlightened and tot- cation, religious ceremonies and
co-religionist. And what is pe-
festivities were not permitted, and
(Copyright, MO, J. T. Al
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participants were brought to trial, collar about this complete assim-
they could live only in a prescribed Ration is that unlike the German
e Swedish Jew is not disdainful
area, and in the three cities of
Season's Greetings
GREETINGS
Stockholm, Gotteburg and Marr- to others who can not, or will not
assimilate.
Race
consciousness
or'
koping. They were not permitted
membership of the guilds, and Zionism has not penetrated into
while they could own and operate Sweden's Jewry. The Swedish Jew •
stores and factories, they were not it he is not a nationalist Swede, is
Flint's Leading Graduate
permitted to be artisans. Also, quite cosmopolitan. One gets very
Furrier
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little of that race responsivity
they could not own land.
FURS,
SU DIR
TE
S,SS CE OS ATS AND
which emanates from Russian and
Gustavus
III
was
favorably
dis-
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posed towards the Jews, whom he Polish Jews. To cite an instance.
Ladies' and Gentlemen's
recognized as a positive asset for On the boat sailing to Sweden I
was introduced to a man who was
Tailor
the economic development of for born in Stockholm, and who had
country, due to their genius tor
Dort Highway at Crago commercial
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pursuits, and associated lived the greater part of his life
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once more became Sweden's atti- He knew him , but the subject was
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tude towards the Jews. In 1775, .hanged so adroitly. I found ou tfi I.
Aron Isak, a poor Jewish engraver later that I had put the question
from Brandenburg, Germany, to a Jew. I then concluded, po s
to his friends that the Lord sibly the two were not kindly dis-
Rosh Hashonah Greetings wrote
GREETINGS
Mayor of Stockholm gave the Jews posed towards each other, but when
permission to build a synagogue. I had been in Stockholm a week I
Aron !oak encouraged his friends realized that Jews were like that
to migrate to Sweden, and he Not dislike, just Nordic indiffer-
formed a little German community ence manifesting itself.
Defiantly Zionistic Youth.
in Stockholm. He wrote his mem-
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Rabbi Dr. Marcus Ephrenpreis,
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bers, and left to Swedish Jews
u niversally known as an ardent
only records of Jewish life in
Dealer
Stockholm during the eighteenth Zionist, and famous for his contri-
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butions to Jewish literature, acts
century.
as a connecting link between the
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On Jan. 24, 1871, a tolerance Swedish Jews who have grown up
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edict was decreed which abrogated in the traditions of Sweden, and
to Any Part of City
many of the 13 prohibitive rulings. the Polish Jews. And he is using
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Then Jews began to migrate to
Zionism as a point of contact. Prior
Sweden, from Poland arid Germany. to his arrival in Sweden (1915)
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In 1815 the first known census of
Zionism was remote from Jewish
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Jews was taken, and the figures ti e. But as Zionism
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t ho a t at I I etdh e r7e85,wealthough
re num e riot usis Jew
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sai ably wound up with Rabbi Ehren-
that
s
life work, he is innoculating
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You With a Happy and
Prosperous New Year
We Wish You All a Very Happy and
Prosperous New Year
The Season's Greetings
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Company
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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Mother buys everything she needs for
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CLARK BABY SHOP
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Flint's Foremost Food Store
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Phone 2.1171
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