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Stockholm

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Rouay Dramatic Theatre, and
on the west side of the theater
is the street called Nybro-
gatan. Not far from Adas
Jeshurun on this street is
Judaica House, the Jewish
community center of Stock-
holm. The activities here
reflect the active cultural life
of the city's Jews, who
number about 9,000.
There are a day school,
nursery school, mikvah, gift
shop and kosher cafeteria.
Cultural activities include
meetings of a Yiddish society,
klezmer dance groups and
lectures.
Gamla Stan, which is an
easy walk from Wallenberg
Square, is one of Stockholm's
most intriguing areas. This is
the historic old town, situated
on three islands, with its nar-
row streets lined with
medieval buildings that are
delightful to explore on foot.
Jewish history is also part
of Gamla Stan. A stone
building at Sjalagarsgatan
19, now an office building, is
the site of the city's first
synagogue. Congregants wor-
shipped there from 1795 un-
til 1870, the year the Great
Synagogue was built.
Also of interest in Gamla
Stan is a small cathedral, the
Storkyan, where Swedish
monarchs are crowned, and
where each year the Nobel
Peace Prize winner gives a
lecture from the pulpit; in
1986 it was Elie Wiesel.
Curiously, inside the church
is a tall seven branched can-
delabra, which distinctly
resembles a menorah, though
it's clearly not used as such in
this setting. Also, over the in-
side doorway, there are
Hebrew letters spelling out
the name of God.
One of the few- sites for
Jewish travelers which is not
within walking distance is
the Jewish museum, which is
in Stockholm's Free Port, a
short ride by bus from the
center of town.
Opened early in 1987, this
museum has displays that
cover much of Swedish Jewish
history and photos of well-
known Swedish Jews, as well
as a scale model of the
synagogue in Malmo, just
across the water from Copen-
hagen, where many Danish
Jews found haven during the
years the Nazis occupied their
country and Sweden was
neutral.
Also on display in the
museum is the bible of Aaron
Isaac, who came to Stockholm
from Micklenberg, Germany
in 1774. He was the first Jew
to settle in Sweden as a Jew.
Before this, Jews who visited
Sweden could not stay unless
they were baptized. A year
after Isaac arrived, his

brother, business partners
and their families followed,
and by 1779, the Swedish
Parliament granted Jews
limited rights and the
freedom to settle in three
cities.
Full Jewish rights did not
come until 1870, almost 100
years later. By 1933, there
wer 7,000 Jews in Sweden.
Later in the 1930s, Jews from
Germany, Austria and Czech-
oslovakia settled in Sweden
despite restrictive immigra-
tion policies.
By 1942, with the persecu-
tion of Jews in nearby Nor-
way, Sweden admitted any
Norwegian Jew who manag-
ed to get there; and a year
later, 7,000 Danish Jews
found asylum here.
Today, Sweden is home to
about 18,000 Jews. It is the
only country besides Israel
where Jewish population has
more than doubled since the
start of World War II.
About half of the nation's
Jews live in Stockholm. In the
Venice of the North, they en-
joy an active Jewish life.

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"i NEWS

Dinitz Reelected
WZO Chairman

Jerusalem (JTA) — The
32nd Zionist Congress re-
elected Simcha Dinitz as
chairman of the World
Zionist Organization. Mr.
Dinitz, of the Labor Zionist
movement, received 382
votes against the 101 cast for
his opponent, Rabbi Richard
Hirsch of the Reform Zionist
movement.
The secret ballot vote
followed a long day of
behind-the- scenes negotia-
tions between Labor and the
Reform movement. Labor
sought for Rabbi Hirsch to
withdraw his candidacy and
lead his movement into a
wall-to-wall coalition with
the other parties in the
WZO. These efforts,
however, ended in an
impasse.
Nonetheless, well-placed
sources predict that a wall-
to-wall coalition will even-
tually be set up, embracing
the Reform movement —
represented at the Congress
primarily by the Association
of Reform Zionists of
America — and its allies.
Rabbi Hirsch only received
some 30-odd votes from dele-
gates outside his own camp,
which included his own
movement and Ratz and
Shinui, both components of
the left-wing Meretz bloc in
the Knesset. Observers
pointed to this as an indif-
ferent showing.

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