Danish kings and the Jews
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Danish kings and the Jews
Lecture by Martin Schwarz Lausten of the Society for Danish Jewish History and the Danish Jewish Museum
In older times, the king really ruled himself, although surrounded by advisers. After the implementation of the Constitution and parliamentarism, this was changed, but the king's opinion still mattered a lot. In the policy towards the Jewish minority in the country, there are several examples of the regent's positive and decisive importance, but there are also cases of the opposite. In the lecture, this is illustrated by selected examples.
Lecture by Martin Schwarz Lausten, dr.theol. and professor emeritus of church history at the University of Copenhagen, has published a number of historical books, most recently Den kirkelige genforening i 1920 (2020) and Luther and Denmark in 500 years (2017). In 2012, he received the Danish Writers' Association's non-fiction prize for his unique dissemination work in the six-volume work on the relationship between Jews and Christians in Denmark from the Middle Ages to recent times. Member of the Kgl. Danish Society of Sciences since 1996.
Date: 02 November at 18:00-20:00
Location: Danish Jewish Museum
Price: NOK 60 (Free for members of the Society for Danish Jewish History)