Bøger af Göran Rosenberg

"A timely, deeply personal biography of a Jewish leader whose questions for Israel have come back to haunt us with a vengeance. Born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, in 1869, Marcus Ehrenpreis was the secretary of Theodor Herzl at the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, a grand rabbi of Bulgaria during two Balkan wars, a diplomat in defense of Europe's minorities, a Swedish author compared to Joseph Conrad, the chief rabbi of one of Europe's few unscathed Jewish communities through the Nazi era. More than a biography of a man's life and work, this book is a literary journey by award-winning Swedish Jewish writer and public intellectual Gèoran Rosenberg (A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz), in search of that European Jewish world of meaning and hope that Ehrenpreis so clearly embodied, so vividly articulated, and so relentlessly worked to explain, defend, and salvage from his pulpit in Stockholm. His lifelong dream was to build a bridge between "Israel" and "the peoples," and he believed that he could do so by bringing a spiritually and culturally revitalized Judaism into a new and self-asserted contact with the non-Jewish world. His Zionism was not about making Jews a nation like all others, in a nation-state like all others, but creating a spiritual and cultural center for the renaissance of Jewish life "amidst the nations." Even as Jewish life in Europe was all but annihilated, he feared what Jewish nationalism might do to the spiritual heritage of Judaism. A meticulously researched and beautifully written story of boundless hope, unrequited love, and annihilated possibilities, Another Zionism, Another Judaism evokes a diasporic Jewish existence that would be harshly judged in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. It also reminds us of a Zionism that strived for something other than an ethnic-national fortress on a narrow strip of land in the Middle East"--

The essays in this book derive from the Engelsberg Seminar of 2014, and investigate the role which religion plays in society today and in the past. They also explore religion as a phenomenon in relation to the human condition and how it manifests itself as an individual experience. In order to understand ourselves, do we need to understand religion?

Tanker om journalistik er en tankevækkende skildring af journalistikkens tilstand. Rosenberg beskriver her de rollekonflikter og udfordringer journalister idag stilles over for. Men er ikke kun en vindende og præcis kortlægning af journalistikkens ansvar og fristelser omkostninger og uvaner. Rosenbergs tanker om journalistik er - med et godt gammeldags ord - opbyggelige: han ved at der findes alternativer og at kvalitet altid overlever.

"Göran Rosenbergs bog kan læses som ét langt smerteligt opgør - selvopgør - med fortiden og Israels og de jødiske menneskers rolle i den mellemøstlige tragedie og stadigt tiltagende umenneskeliggørelse...Når det sidste blad i den omfangsrige bog er vendt, sidder læseren tilbage med smerten og blot et spinkelt håb om redning af freden og den Israelske sjæl... Man kunne ønske sig at Rosenbergs omvendte exodus blev skolebogsstof i Israel, hvilket man næsten kan være sikker på at den ikke bliver." - Georg Metz, Information

En dag i august 1947 står David Rosenberg den mand der senere skal blive forfatterens far af toget i Södertälje. Det er sidste stop på en lang rejse fra Auschwitz og nazisternes udryddelseslejre i Polen og Tyskland. Her i den lille by i det gryende moderne Sverige genforenes han efter et stykke tid med sin ungdoms elskede. Sammen forsøger de at begynde forfra skabe sig et nyt liv og stifte familie. Men skyggerne fra fortiden indhenter ham.