Search results
Your search found 6 items
Sort: Relevance | Topics | Title | Author | Publication Year
Home  / Search Results
The German Language, Preiselbeeren and Orange Juice: Processes of Identification in a Swedish-Jewish Woman’s Everyday Storytelling
Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Oral History and Biography, Narrative, Jewish Women, Interviews
Den judiska sängkammarmöbeln: Berättande, materialitet och identitet
Translated Title: The Jewish bedchamber furniture: Narrative, materiality and identity
Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne
Date: 2012
Topics: Artefacts and Material Culture, Interviews, Main Topic: Other, Narrative, Memory, Immigration, Diaspora
Lingon och potatis, Stockholm och Czernowitz: Materialiteter i en judinnas levnadsberättelse
Translated Title: Lingonberries and potatoes, Stockholm and Czernowitz: Materials in a Jew's life story
Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne
Editor(s): Ek-Nilsson, Katarina; Meurling, Birgitta
Date: 2014
Topics: Artefacts and Material Culture, Interviews, Food, Immigration, Main Topic: Other, Memory, Oral History and Biography
‘In Persia I was called “The Blonde”’: An Attempt to Analyse how a Jewess Practices Whiteness
Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne
Editor(s): Olsson, Annika
Date: 2008
Topics: Jewish Identity, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Oral History and Biography, Narrative, Race, Gender, Memory
The travelling furniture: materialised experiences of living in the Jewish diaspora
Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne
Editor(s): Kannike, Anu; Laviolette, Patrick
Date: 2013
Topics: Interviews, Narrative, Memory, Oral History and Biography, Artefacts and Material Culture, Main Topic: Other, Diaspora, Immigration
Osynligt förtryck och vita kroppar. Förhandlingar kring judiskhet i Sverige
Translated Title: Invisible oppression and white bodies. Negotiations on Judaism in Sweden
Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne
Date: 2014
Topics: Interviews, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Race
Abstract: The majority of the approximately 20,000 Swedish Jews are not immediately recognisable as Jews, and pass as ordinary Swedes. In this article, with inspiration from Critical Whiteness Studies, this invisibility is analysed in terms of whiteness. Critical Whiteness Studies argue that in postcolonial societies, such as Sweden, whiteness functions as a taken-for-granted norm that regulates who is regarded as white and Swedish. The aim of the article is to investigate the consequences of the norms of whiteness for Jewish life in contemporary Swedish society. From a large body of material on Jewish life in Sweden two interviews have been selected for analysis.

The article argues that the practices of passing as white demand skills and knowledge about how and when it is suitable and adequate to expose or hide being Jewish. The interviewees find the category ‘Swedish’ far too limited to encapsulate Jewish life in all its forms. Their engagement in the practices of passing as white shows that Swedish contemporary society is imbued with colonial imaginary reproduction norms of whiteness.