Scholars across the Seas

The arlicle discusses the academic and cultural relationships be/ween Sweden and the U.S in the early 20'h century.It focuses on !he activiJies of two key institutions, the Sweden-America Foundation in Stockholm and the American-Scandinavian Foundation in New York.Both foundations were established in the second decade of rhe 20'" century and sought to promote educarional and rnltural exchanges and contacts be/ween.Sweden and the United State.~.Although the foundations had similar goals, the reasons behind their establishment were quite different.The American foundation had one root in the development of Scandinavian-American ethnic communities.AnothP.r.mun:e of origin r:an he tr(fr:ed to a growing interest in.medieval England, Old English, and Anglo-Saxon.in American universities, in which Scandinavia came ro occupy a privileged position.The Swedish foundalion.was esrablished parrly as a result of a Swedish cultural and academic reorientation following World War 1, away from Germany towards the U.K. and the U.S.Th e effec1s of the work of both foundations have been.significant, both in establishing close academic co111acts between Sweden and the U.S. and in creating improving

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