FÖRENINGEN FÖR JUDISK KULTUR I SVERIGE
är en oberoende, opolitisk och icke-konfessionell non-profit organisation med syfte att initiera och genomföra kulturarrangemang som knyter an till det judiska kulturarvet och judiskt tänkande. Föreningen vill samarbete med judiska såväl som icke-judiska institutioner i Sverige och utomlands för att främja dialog och kreativt tänkande. Föreningen för judisk kultur i Sverige grundades av Gabriel Urwitz, Lennart Schuss och Lizzie Oved Scheja som en medlemsorganisation öppen för alla som vill stödja judisk kultur i varierande uttrycksformer.
Föreningen mottar inte ansökningar om ekonomiskt stöd men verkar genom att ingå i samarbete med andra om arrangemang som ryms inom föreningens verksamhets–inriktning.
Kontakta oss gärna om du vill bli medlem i Föreningen för judisk kultur i Sverige och/eller om du har en idé som skulle kunna utvecklas och eventuellt förverkligas i samarbete med oss.
Vi ser dig mycket gärna som medlem i vår förening!
Bli medlem och stöd Judisk Kultur i Sverige! Kontakta oss.
Medlemskap 1000 kr/år
Ständigt medlemskap 10 000 kr
Bankgiro 755 - 4132
Organisation / Organization
STYRELSE / BOARD
LENNART SCHUSS
Ordförande/Chairman
ANDERS CARLBERG
LENNART KANTER
Born in 1956 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Kanter received his LL.M from Uppsala University in 1980 and did a Junior Judgeship in Uppsala District Court (1980-1982).
Since 1982 he has been practicing business law, initially specializing in intellectual property law and dispute resolution, and from 1994 in mergers and acquisitions.
Kanter has published i.a. the following works:
Fiction; novels: “Len Rakoffs kärlek”, Norstedts, 1977
”John J:s resa”, Norstedts 1979
“David Kahans sista ord”, Norstedts 1981
Non-fiction: ”Det nya förlagsavtalet”, Norstedts 1980
JOEL CITRON
New York based board member
LIZZIE OVED SCHEJA
Founder- director of Jewish Culture in Sweden. Scheja works internationally in formimg cultural cooperation and developing platforms for interdisciplinary dialogues. A graduate from UCLA school of Fine Arts, Scheja has been realizing high profile programs in leading institutions, example of which is the international congress The New European Cultural Landscape and the Jewish Experience. (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2006, recipient of the EU Culture 2000 grant of the European Union).
VIVECA URWITZ
has always had a great interest in the literature of the world and speaks several languages. In spite of this and and following many Jewish women she trained as a social worker specializing in Community Development and Social Change at Lund University with a special interest in urban development and heterogenity. She then worked, lectured and researched within the field of Public Health. She has written articles, textbooks and scientific publications on a wide variety of topics and worked in many countries. During the latter part of her working life she also became a specialist in fund distribution and monitoring of the work of NGOs and has been a project leader for an EU project on this topic in 22 countries. She retired from her post as the head of the National Unit of HIV Prevention at the former Institute of Disease Controle ( now the Public Health Agency of Sweden) in 2013. She now works as a consultant.
Adj. MARIA GRÜBER
accountant
PROGRAMGRUPP / PROGRAM ADVISARY BOARD
LARS DENCIK
Lars (Lasse) was born in Sweden 1941 and is Senior Professor of Social Psychology. He is carrying out research on the relations between societal modernization and Jewish life in Sweden and Europe – topics that he has also written and published extensively about.
ALEXANDER FREUDENTHAL
Alexander Freudenthal was born in 1971 into a musical, Jewish home and has combined these two worlds in his work. In 1999 he formed the Freudenthal Yiddish Big Band where he combines the Yiddish folk music and big band jazz. As composer, he was commissioned several pieces by the Jewish Museum in Stockholm and wrote a concerto for Cello and Yiddish Big Band (2006). His compositions have been featured on Swedish national radio and television. He formed the Freudenthal Yiddish Orchestra (FYO) to which he composed a Piano Concerto featuring swedish jazz pianist Adam Forkelid (2013). In 2015 Freudenthal created KLEZ-Lab, a platform that explores the rich heritage of Jewish music. The first KLEZ-lab took place in cooperation with the Malmö Academy of Music and J! Jewish Culture in Sweden.
Photo: Anna Rex
JACKIE JAKUBOWSKI
MONICA NAGLER
Monica Nagler Wittgenstein, born 1935 in Landskrona. Member of the Board for Jewish Culture in Sweden, and also of its Programming committee.
Literary critic – specialized in Central European & Israeli Literature – working in that capacity at Swedish Radio & TV (1975 - 1996) President of the Swedish Pen Club (1995 - 2002) Co-founder, organizer, and moderator of/at international Book Fairs, literary seminars and other literary events in Europe and the USA in order to exchange cultures and promote translations.
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Wittgenstein Initiative in Vienna.
KONSTNÄRLIG GRUPP / CREATIVE TEAM
TOMAS FRANK
Lighting designer and production advisor
JACOB KELLERMANN
Music programs advisor
CECILIA UNDEMARK PÈTERFY
Graphic designer
Independent designer and illustrator with studies in Art, History, Literature, and Philosophy. Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and further Master studies in Typography and Tutorial Guidance in Art Education. She works multidisciplinary with design, teaching, lecturing and educational planning. Among many projects: she is the Art director and designer of What Does it Mean to Be a Human Being, an internet based learning platform with testimonies from last Survivors of the Holocaust in Sweden, initiated by Swedish Committ.e Against Antisemitism, supported by EU.
GUNILLA LEFEBURE
Administration
KARL GABOR
Fotograf, webbdesign
Born in Debrecen, Hungary, photographer and graphic designer over 30 years. Gabor has been graphic designer to hundreds of covers for magazines and books, exhibitions, slideshows and videos. He has been working for various institutions such as The Jewish Museum and the Swedish Institute. Karl Gabor’s slide show about Raoul Wallenberg has been shown at the Swedish Parliament House, Riksdagen as well as in the European Parliament.
LEONARDO WEHLANDER
Video, sound engineer and web responsible
Responsible for documentation of Jewish Culture in Sweden's various programs.
Leonardo has a background as literary and musical scientist, music teacher and singer.
Since 2010, he has developed his own media production company Art of Sound KLMT.
