Judisk Kultur i Sverige

29/05/2026

Jewish Book Festival: Saba-Nur Cheema, Meron Mendel and Elisabeth Åsbrink ’Living Together in Time of Polarization’. Concluding two intense days that brought together fantastic authors and thinkers from Sweden and abroad, and presented in-depth conversations and new perspectives. Eloge to you, dear audience, who stayed with us throughout the journey. We opened the festival in Hungary 1944 and immersed in great literature and texts by all participants, to conclude with Saba-Nur and Meron, an abundance of humanism and hope. Save the dates for next year’s festival 22-23/5. The conversation continues. .scheja .cheema

29/05/2026

Jewish Book Festival, Stockholm. Some images from day 2: Judy Batalion (The Last Woman in Warsaw), Mats Almegård; Delphine Horvilleur and Chaya Gilboa (Reading the Talmud Today); Jonathan Rozenkrantz and Hannes Meidal (Judens roll: Från Shylock till Isak Jacobi); Natalie Bloch, Blazenka Scheuer, CeciliaW , David Duner (Apokalyptiska tempelmotiv); Diego Moldes and Gabi Gleichmann (When Einstein Met Kafka); Shalom Auslander and Ricki Neuman (Feh: Memoir). Connecting Authors and Thinkers Worldwide. More to come. .scheja .meidal

27/05/2026

Jewish Book Festival, Stockholm, more images from day 1: Performance with dancer Maya Neuman and saxophonist Noah Hofvander. Poetry reading with Jonathan Brott, Ludvig Köhler, Hanna Wikforss-Green and Lan Xu. Havdala with Delphine Horvilleur and Chaya Gilboa. Getting ecstatic as always with tunes by Freudenthal Klezmer Band. .scheja

27/05/2026

Jewish Book Festival, Stockholm, images from day 1 (not complete): Delphine Horvilleur inaugurates the festival; Sam Sussman and Björn Wiman (Boy From the North Country); Gabor Zoltan and Hynek Pallas (Orgie); Sarah Schulman, Sara Mannheimer, Dorotea Bromberg and Erik Joas (Jiddisch i Sverige); Anders Olsson, Magnus Halldin and Hannes Meidal (Dialogue between Nelly Sachs and Gunnar Ekelöf); Natalie Bloch, Ruby Namdar and Yishai Sarid (The Jerusalem Temple in contemporary Hebrew literature); Georges Didi-Huberman and Daniel Pedersen (The Angels of History). Rich in content, filled with depth, pure joy of literature and conversations, no short cuts. Thank you speakers for your superb contributions, and thank you audience for your sincere engagement. More to come. .scheja .meidal

26/05/2026

https://www.svd.se/a/16jVlJ/osman-kavala-tilldelas-gilel-storch-award

KRÖNIKA. Filantropen Osman Kavalas vision är ett fördoms­fritt samhälle där kulturell mångfald är något bra. ”En utländsk konspiration”, tycker president Erdoğan, som låst in honom på livstid. Nu tilldelas Kavala årets Gilel Storch Award.

22/05/2026

Jewish Book Festival. Connecting Authors and Thinkers Worldwide. 23-24/5. Konstakademien. You can find the detailed program at judiskkultur.se Warm Welcome. .scheja .cheema

20/05/2026

Meet Judy Batalion, USA (The Last Woman of Warsaw), Gabor Zoltan, Hungary (Orgie), Georges Didi-Huberman, France (Historiens änglar) and Diego Moldes, Spain (When Einstein Met Kafka). Poignant conversations at the Jewish Book Festival at Konstakademien (23-24/5). For detailed program visit our website: judiskkultur.se Warm welcome. .scheja

10/05/2026

Jewish Book Festival: Connecting Authors and Thinkers Worldwide. Meet Shalom Auslander in conversation with Ricki Neuman on ’Feh: A Memoir’. Auslander’s 2007 memoir ’Foreskin’s lament’ narrates his struggle to break from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, New York. ’Feh’ both revisits and expands on Auslander’s lament about the emotional and physical wounds inflicted by an extreme religious ideology that presumes mankind to be fallen by nature. This is the story he has been told from an early age, that he is fallen, broken, shameful. ’Feh’ follows Auslander’s midlife journey to rewrite that story. Shalom Auslander is internationally acclaimed, award winning writer of fiction, non-fiction, stage, TV and film. He has published fiction and essays in the New Yorker and The New York Times, Esquire, GQ, among many others. He is currently adapting ’Foreskin’s Lament’ and ’Hope: A Tragedy’ for the stage, the former in London, the latter in New York City. Auslander will speak on Sunday 24/5 at 17:00, Konstakademien. The festival spans throughout the weekend 23-24/5. Tickets: billetto.se Program: judiskkultur.se Warm welcome. .scheja

07/05/2026

Meet Yishai Sarid and Ruby Namdar in conversation with Natalie Bloch on ’Apocalyptic Temple Imaginaries in Contemporary Hebrew Literature’. In recent decades, Israeli authors have turned to the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and its messianic rebuilding as a backdrop for personal and collective crisis. The conversation will highlight two prize-winning authors and their acclaimed novels: Sarid’s ’The Third Temple’ and Namdar’s ’The Ruined House’. This session (Saturday 23/5) is part of a partnership with the research program ’At the End of the World’ based ar the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University. The second session in this partnership (24/5) will explore the Jerusalem temple as an apocalyptic motif from antiquity until today. This conversation will be held by scholars Cecilia Wassen, David Duner and Blazenka Scheuer. Both sessions will be moderated by Natalie Bloch, Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible at Lund University and translator of Modern Hebrew fiction. Jewish Book Festival. Connecting Authors and Thinkers Worldwide. 23-24/5, Konstakademien, Stockholm. Tickets: billetto.se Complete program: judiskkultur.se .scheja .scheuer

05/05/2026

Jewish Book Festival: Connecting Authors and Thinkers Worldwide. Meet Delphine Horvilleur and Chaya Gilboa. A conversation between two spiritual woman, one from Paris and one from Jerusalem. Both explore Talmudic topics and discuss the realities of the communities in which they’re part of. In their meeting, they will touch upon a current question from the perspective on an ancient text. Delphine Horvilleur is a prominent figure in the realm of Jewish culture and religion and the author of several best-sellers in France. She is a rabbi in the liberal Jewish movement of France and director of Tenoua Workshops, study and dialogue sessions that bring together some 300 people every month in Paris. Her latest book is ’How Isn’t It Going? Conversations After October 7’. Chaya Gilboa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at Ben Gurion University. Her research focuses on concepts of time and beauty in Talmudic stories. She hosts programs on the radio and on the digital channel of Israeli public television. Her upcoming book is a cultural-literary reading of Talmudic passages that she taught following October 7 and during the war in Gaza. The Jewish Book Festival festival will be held on 23-24/5 at Konstakademien in Stockholm. You can find the entire program at judiskkultur.se (photo: Alexandre Isard, Sharon Gabay). .scheja

29/04/2026

Meet Meron Mendel and Saba-Nur Cheema in conversation with Elisabeth Åsbrink ’Living Together in Time of Polarization’. Cheema’s family comes from Pakistan, she grew up in a socially disadvantaged neighbourhood in Frankfurt. Mendel was born in Israel, raised on a Kibbutz. Now, as a married couple, they look together at an increasingly polarized world and reflect on it. Together, they work in education and dialogue against antisemitism and Islamophobia, illuminating the other’s perspective. Jewish Book Festival. Connecting authors and thinkers worldwide. 23-24/5, Konstakademien, Stockholm. Photo: Ali Ghandtschi. judiskkultur.se .scheja .cheema