Maja Hultman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Hultman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Hultman |
| SIGNATURE | HULTMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6634-7777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Surviving against all odds? The urban practice of orthodox refugees and Holocaust survivors in Stockholm, 1939–1950s
With Adass Jeschurun, an orthodox synagogue transported from Hamburg to Stockholm in 1939, as a gateway, this article endeavours to reconstruct the lives of orthodox Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Holocaust survivors in Sweden during and after World War II. To do this, the article operationalizes Henri Lefebvre’s triad of space to first, explore the synagogue’s current narrative of survival against all odds and second, move beyond this mem…
Teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordics: A Roundtable
This roundtable offers a collaborative, multi-vocal forum on the topic of teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordic region, featuring contributions from scholars and instructors based in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Conceived as a reflective platform, it weaves together critical insights, pedagogical experiences, and institutional perspectives. Topics include national contexts, classroom practices, both conventional and experimental curricul…
Jewish/non-Jewish encounters in corridors and staircases: Narrowing down everyday life in liminal spaces
Contrary to historiographical narratives about Jewish seclusion in European cities at the turn of the twentieth century, we argue that Jews and non-Jews mingled and developed relationships on a daily basis in residential and everyday spaces. We develop the concept of liminal topographies to show how the transient, in-between material structures of staircases and corridors in two such disparate case studies as Stockholm and Vienna facilitated Jewi…
Introduction: Minorities and gender in contested urban spaces special issue
While studies on urban minorities have interested scholars in history, sociology, ethnography and geography for a full century, 'minorities within minorities' are more often than not absent. Gendered groups within ethnic or religious minorities in the modern metropolis experienced doubled- or even tripled marginalisation in the urban landscape. This introduction provides an overview of the scholarly work that has been done on ethnic/religious and…
Introducing a Virtual Approach to European Jewish Spaces in the Twenty-First Century
Revisiting space and emotion: New ways to study buildings and feelings
In her 2014 History Compass article, Margrit Pernau issued a call for scholars to consider entanglements between history of emotion methodologies and space. She argued that ‘bodies are necessarily situated in space, and they bear the imprint of the spaces they are moving through and have moved through.’ Nine years after the publication of Pernau's article, this study engages with developments in the field of history of emotions to posit that emot…
Introduction: Jews, Europe, and the business of culture
The GIS prism: Beyond the Myth of Stockholm’s Ostjuden
In this chapter, I argue that the GIS approach holds the potential to challenge historiographical master narratives in Jewish urban history. Using Stockholm’s modern Jewish population as a case study, I propose that the digital, quantitative studies associated with GIS can be used as analytical prisms through which to explore qualitative sources. In the case of Stockholm’s Jewry, this methodology allows for a re-examination of spatially inscribed…
Marcus Ehrenpreis in an international context
This report from the online workshop on 3 June 2021 which took place at the University of Vienna and University of Gothenburg gives an account of the talks and discussions on the role of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis in the Jewish communities of Sofia and Stockholm
Staging the Jewish Bourgeois Home
This article explores the relationship between the domestic position of Jewish bourgeois housewives and the larger Swedish, urban landscape at the beginning of the twentieth century. Examining the interior décor, shopping patterns, urban places, and the social, cultural and religious aspects of the domestic spheres of Irene Strauss and Jeannette Ettlinger, this article argues that they consciously used public spaces to establish their individual …
The Construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, 1860–1870: A Space for Jewish and Swedish-Christian Dialogues
The construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm during the 1860s initiated Jewish communal debates on the position and public presence of Jews in the Swedish pre-emancipatory society. An investigation into the construction process not only reveals various Jewish opinions on the sacred building, but also the pivotal role of Swedish-Christian actors in shaping the synagogue’s location, architecture, and the way it was presented in the public n…
Carried to his last rest’: Public funerals as Jewish/non-Jewish spaces in modern Stockholm
20 Swedish-Jewish elite funerals between 1870 and 1939 presented individual combinations of Judaic, bourgeois, Christian, national and modern affiliations through their ritual and musical practices, performing a fragmented Jewishness to a partly non-Jewish audience, partly aided by non-Jewish soloists, musicians and eulogists. As locations for funeral services, the synagogue, the street and the cemetery were placed on the conceptual ‘frontier’ of…
Soundscape Archaeology: Ringing Stone Research in Sweden
Focusing on Swedish examples in particular, this paper argues that the archaeoacoustical phenomena known as ringing stones, despite opinions to the contrary, are possible to approach scientifically. A typology of sonorous stones (both geological and archaeological) is presented, and landscape and soundscape analyses in combination reveal patterns that suggests that prehistoric people of Sweden were well aware of the ringing stones and their sonor…
Jewish/non-Jewish encounters in corridors and staircases: Narrowing down everyday life in liminal spaces
Contrary to historiographical narratives about Jewish seclusion in European cities at the turn of the twentieth century, we argue that Jews and non-Jews mingled and developed relationships on a daily basis in residential and everyday spaces. We develop the concept of liminal topographies to show how the transient, in-between material structures of staircases and corridors in two such disparate case studies as Stockholm and Vienna facilitated Jewi…
Revisiting space and emotion: New ways to study buildings and feelings
In her 2014 History Compass article, Margrit Pernau issued a call for scholars to consider entanglements between history of emotion methodologies and space. She argued that ‘bodies are necessarily situated in space, and they bear the imprint of the spaces they are moving through and have moved through.’ Nine years after the publication of Pernau's article, this study engages with developments in the field of history of emotions to posit that emot…
Soundscape Archaeology: Ringing Stone Research in Sweden
Focusing on Swedish examples in particular, this paper argues that the archaeoacoustical phenomena known as ringing stones, despite opinions to the contrary, are possible to approach scientifically. A typology of sonorous stones (both geological and archaeological) is presented, and landscape and soundscape analyses in combination reveal patterns that suggests that prehistoric people of Sweden were well aware of the ringing stones and their sonor…
Carried to his last rest’: Public funerals as Jewish/non-Jewish spaces in modern Stockholm
20 Swedish-Jewish elite funerals between 1870 and 1939 presented individual combinations of Judaic, bourgeois, Christian, national and modern affiliations through their ritual and musical practices, performing a fragmented Jewishness to a partly non-Jewish audience, partly aided by non-Jewish soloists, musicians and eulogists. As locations for funeral services, the synagogue, the street and the cemetery were placed on the conceptual ‘frontier’ of…
Staging the Jewish Bourgeois Home
This article explores the relationship between the domestic position of Jewish bourgeois housewives and the larger Swedish, urban landscape at the beginning of the twentieth century. Examining the interior décor, shopping patterns, urban places, and the social, cultural and religious aspects of the domestic spheres of Irene Strauss and Jeannette Ettlinger, this article argues that they consciously used public spaces to establish their individual …
The Construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, 1860–1870: A Space for Jewish and Swedish-Christian Dialogues
The construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm during the 1860s initiated Jewish communal debates on the position and public presence of Jews in the Swedish pre-emancipatory society. An investigation into the construction process not only reveals various Jewish opinions on the sacred building, but also the pivotal role of Swedish-Christian actors in shaping the synagogue’s location, architecture, and the way it was presented in the public n…
Marcus Ehrenpreis in an international context
This report from the online workshop on 3 June 2021 which took place at the University of Vienna and University of Gothenburg gives an account of the talks and discussions on the role of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis in the Jewish communities of Sofia and Stockholm
The GIS prism: Beyond the Myth of Stockholm’s Ostjuden
In this chapter, I argue that the GIS approach holds the potential to challenge historiographical master narratives in Jewish urban history. Using Stockholm’s modern Jewish population as a case study, I propose that the digital, quantitative studies associated with GIS can be used as analytical prisms through which to explore qualitative sources. In the case of Stockholm’s Jewry, this methodology allows for a re-examination of spatially inscribed…
Revisiting space and emotion: New ways to study buildings and feelings
In her 2014 History Compass article, Margrit Pernau issued a call for scholars to consider entanglements between history of emotion methodologies and space. She argued that ‘bodies are necessarily situated in space, and they bear the imprint of the spaces they are moving through and have moved through.’ Nine years after the publication of Pernau's article, this study engages with developments in the field of history of emotions to posit that emot…
Introduction: Jews, Europe, and the business of culture
Jewish/non-Jewish encounters in corridors and staircases: Narrowing down everyday life in liminal spaces
Contrary to historiographical narratives about Jewish seclusion in European cities at the turn of the twentieth century, we argue that Jews and non-Jews mingled and developed relationships on a daily basis in residential and everyday spaces. We develop the concept of liminal topographies to show how the transient, in-between material structures of staircases and corridors in two such disparate case studies as Stockholm and Vienna facilitated Jewi…
Introduction: Minorities and gender in contested urban spaces special issue
While studies on urban minorities have interested scholars in history, sociology, ethnography and geography for a full century, 'minorities within minorities' are more often than not absent. Gendered groups within ethnic or religious minorities in the modern metropolis experienced doubled- or even tripled marginalisation in the urban landscape. This introduction provides an overview of the scholarly work that has been done on ethnic/religious and…
Introducing a Virtual Approach to European Jewish Spaces in the Twenty-First Century
Surviving against all odds? The urban practice of orthodox refugees and Holocaust survivors in Stockholm, 1939–1950s
With Adass Jeschurun, an orthodox synagogue transported from Hamburg to Stockholm in 1939, as a gateway, this article endeavours to reconstruct the lives of orthodox Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Holocaust survivors in Sweden during and after World War II. To do this, the article operationalizes Henri Lefebvre’s triad of space to first, explore the synagogue’s current narrative of survival against all odds and second, move beyond this mem…
Teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordics: A Roundtable
This roundtable offers a collaborative, multi-vocal forum on the topic of teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordic region, featuring contributions from scholars and instructors based in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Conceived as a reflective platform, it weaves together critical insights, pedagogical experiences, and institutional perspectives. Topics include national contexts, classroom practices, both conventional and experimental curricul…
History (9 works) · Judaism (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (4 works) · Law (4 works)