Pontus Rudberg new associate professor (docent)

Rudberg’s research has mainly dealt with Swedish responses to the Second World War and the Holocaust. His doctoral dissertation, which focused on Jewish refugee aid and relief work, was published as a monograph with the title The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust (Routledge 2017). Rudberg has since been a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme, and a post-doc research fellow at the Hugo Valentin Center where he co-edited the volume Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden: Archives, Memories, and Reflections (Palgrave 2021). From 2019 to 2021, he led the Swedish part of Yerusha, an initiative of the Rothschild Foundation in Europe to create an online platform for sources to Jewish history. With a background as a museum curator, he also worked as an exhibition planner and advisor to the Jewish Museum in Stockholm. Rudberg is currently employed as a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre, where he is leading a research project about the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors in Sweden in the immediate post-war years, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on related topics.