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The Study of Antisemitism in Finland Past, Present, and Future

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Finland’s vulnerable postwar position impacted interpretations of its wartime history. This is likely the reason why the study of antisemitism was marginal or almost non-existent in twentieth-century Finland. The lack of research led to a widespread view that antisemitism was a marginal phenomenon in Finnish society, both before and during the Second World War. In the last twenty years there have been a growing number of studies making it clear that this was not the case - Finland was no exception when it came to antisemitism. This article will present the history of the study of antisemitism in Finland from three different vantage points: (1) fascism and the Holocaust, (2) religion and the Church, and (3) from the perspective of Finnish Jews, via several case studies of latent antisemitism.

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License

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139-154

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978-3-11-063193-7

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Ahonen, Paavo, Muir, Simo, Silvennoinen, Oula The Study of Antisemitism in Finland Past, Present, and Future. Antisemitism in the North: History and State of Research. De Gruyter. 2019: 139-154.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1515/9783110634822-009