After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) - Softcover

Buckser, Andrew

 
9781403962706: After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

Synopsis

In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Nazis. In the years since, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture that presents very few barriers of anti-Semitism or prejud

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About the Author

ANDREW BUCKSER is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. He is the author of a number of works on religion and culture in northern Europe, including Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island (1996). Dr. Buckser received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, and he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Western Jutland and Copenhagen.

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