Hugo Valentin (1888–1963) was a Swedish historian, scholar and leading Zionist. He received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1916 and took up teaching at the Teachers Training College in Uppsala and at a high school. In 1930 he was appointed lecturer at the high school in Uppsala (Uppsala Högre Allmänna Läroverk). In 1930 he was also awarded the title of Docent by the university, and, some years later, in 1948, the government awarded him the[1] honorary title of professor.
He is known, to scholars of Antisemitism and the history of Jews in Sweden, for his significant work, part of which has been translated into English.
In October 1942 he wrote a well-documented article on the Holocaust in the respected and influential daily newspaper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning. Based on available data he claimed that the Nazis had murdered 700,000 Jews in Poland. The article was widely quoted in Sweden. From 1951 Valentin edited a cultural magazine entitled Judisk Tidskrift.[2] In 1953, Valentin published an article in the YIVO Annual detailing the Scandinavian countries' responses to the Holocaust.[3]
Valentin was one of the founders of the Swedish section of the World Jewish Congress in 1944 and was appointed chairman in 1946.
The Hugo Valentin Centre was established at Uppsala University's Faculty of Arts in November 2009 through a merging of two previous units, the Centre for Multiethnic Research and The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The unit started its work under the new name on 1 January 2010 and on 1 January 2025 it was renamed to Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Works
edit- Frihetstidens riddarhus: några bidrag till dess karakteristik (Stockholm: Geber 1915) diss.
- Judarnas historia i Sverige (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1924).
- Antisemitism i historisk och kritisk belysning (1936).
- Antisemitism Historically and Critically Examined, trans. from Swedish by A. G. Chater (New York: The Viking Press, 1937) (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971) ISBN 0-8369-5914-0
- 'Rescue and Relief Activities in behalf of Jewish Victims in. Scandinavia', in YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science VIII (1953) s. 533–560.
- Judarna i Sverige (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1964).
References
edit- ^ Hugo Valentin, ”Rescue and Relief Activities in behalf of Jewish Victims in. Scandinavia”, YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science 8 (1953) s. 533–560.
- ^ "Judisk tidskrift". Libris. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ Hugo Valentin, ”Rescue and Relief Activities in behalf of Jewish Victims in. Scandinavia”, YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science 8 (1953) s. 533–560.
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