Huvudgårdar och herravälden. En studie av småländsk medeltid (original) (raw)

Judarna och stadsbranden : Judisk invandring och integration i det sena 1800-talets Sverige

Nordisk Judaistik Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 2008

[ Jews and the city fire in Sundsvall: Jewish immigration and integration into the Sweden of the late 1800s]. The purpose of this investigation is to analyze aspects of Jewish integration into Swedish society during the decades following the emancipation which was carried out in 1870, by means of investigating how a Jewish immigrant group was given space and was able to participate in the local society. The big fire in Sundsvall in 1888 and the consequent relief work affected the Jewish population in several ways. The Relief Work Committee which was active for a whole year after the fire left behind them unique material which contains application forms, registration books, correspondence and committee minutes which are the main source material for this investigation. Already two decades before the fire, Jews, originating almost exclusively from czar-ruled Russia had begun to move to Sundsvall, a city with a hearty economic and demographic growth. During the 1870s and 1880s most Jewish families supported themselves as traveling salespersons, and a few succeeded as pawnbrokers and shop owners in the center of the city and became part of the local middle class. In the middle of the 1880s there were about 150 Jews in the city. Two-thirds of the city was completely destroyed by fire in the summer of 1888 and thousands were forced to turn to the Relief Work Committee for help. About 60% of the Jews in the city applied for help during the years the committee was active. During the first months of the committee's work Jewish applicants were discriminated against compared to non-Jewish ones. The size of the subsidy and percentage of those who received it were significantly lower for Jews than for the rest of the local population. The authorities had a separate Jewish category in-

Den vardagliga kniven - om knivars terminologi och tolkning med småländska exempel

In Situ Archaeologica

The knife is a common artefact found in many different contexts. In this article a model of how knives can be analysed is presented. The model is based upon characteristics that are important when discussing the use value of the knife as well as its symbolic value. Certain characteristics have been identified as important on basis of practical forging and knifemakery. Physical characteristics such as the design of the tang, the knives length and how its edge is designed is important information when discussing to what purpose the knife was manufactured. The material of the blade gives information about both the smith and how the knife might have been used. Two different materials can be used, these are iron and steel. Steel is iron with a carbon content of 0,3-2%. Steel has different use values than iron. It may be tempered and therefore an edge made out of steel remains sharp longer than a similar edge made out of iron. Iron and steel can also be combined. The social meaning of a k...