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Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Museum Stockholm
Phone:
+46 8 557 735 60

Address:
2 Haelsingegatan, Stockholm 113 23, Sweden

Church records at Stockholm Cathedral record several Jewish families entering Sweden and being baptised into the Lutheran Church, a condition at that time imposed upon any Jew who desired to settle in Sweden. In 1681 for example, the Jewish families of Israel Mandel and Moses Jacob in Stockholm, 28 persons in all, were baptised in the German church of that city in the presence of King Charles XI of Sweden, the dowager queen Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, and several other high state officials. King Charles XII spent five years with an encampment in the Turkish town of Bender and accumulated a large number of debts there for his entourage. Jewish and Muslim creditors followed him to Sweden, and the Swedish law was altered so that they could hold religious services and circumcise their male progeny.
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