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"""He [the author] provides his readers with several examples from the last few years that show that the medieval stereotypical anti-Judaic topoi are still, time and time again, being used in creating the other, sometimes in an openly racist manner, sometimes in a more subtle way. Therefore, knowing the history and development of these topoi is of essential importance in today's world and Jonathan Adam's book certainly is a major step forward in this respect concerning Sweden and Denmark. For scholars interested in the preaching and/or Jewish history, it is simply a sine qua non read."" Jussi Hanska (2023) Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden, Medieval Sermon Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2023.2269068 ""Dette imponerende værk udspringer af mange års forskning i antisemitismens historie i Skandinavien [...] Det giver et meget komplet billede af synet på jøder i middelalderens Danmark og Sverige indtil 1515, sådan som det kommer til udtryk i både den sekulære og den religiøse litteratur på henholdsvis gammeldansk og -svensk (østnordisk)."" [This impressive work is the result of many years of research on the history of antisemitism in Scandinavia [...] It provides a very complete picture of how Jews were viewed in Denmark and Sweden before 1515 as expressed in both secular and religious literature in Old Danish and Old Swedish respectively (East Norse).] Janus Møller Jensen (2023), Historisk Tidsskrift, 123:1, 252-255. ""I strongly recommend Adams's masterful two-volume set for those interested in medieval, early modern, modern, or contemporary periods. It is a text filled with priceless gems likely to fascinate scholars and students of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Holocaust Studies, Postcolonial Studies, as well as Norse Studies. In particular, Adams unpacks antisemitic 'stereotypes . . . in the East Norse material' (I:20), and readers are likely to gain a deeper understanding of the antisemitism introduced by the forms of Christianity that filled the spaces vacated by the cherished Norse gods."" Miriamne Ara Krummel (2023), Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, vol. 18, no. 1, DOI: 10.6017/scjr.v18i1.17241."

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Jonathan Adams, Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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