Lars M. Andersson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 15 45
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 567 45 41
- E-mail:
- Lars.M.Andersson@hist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 A
- Postal address:
- Box 628
751 26 UPPSALA - Available:
- Efter överenskommelse
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Biography
Lars M Andersson, b. 1961, senior lecturer. Anderson has mainly done research on Swedish antisemitism and refugee policy but has also published high school textbooks on history and religious studies, anthologies on contemporary history, counterfactual history, the image as a historical source, liability issues and moral debate in historical accounts, migration and Swedish Jewish history. Furthermore he has co-edited three Festschrifts. In 2002-2006, he was the editor of Historisk tidskrift and has also served as editor of the Lagerbringbiblioteket series with Ulf Zander. Currently he is on the editorial board of Historisk tidskrift, Scandinavian Jewish Studies and Opuscula Historica Upsaleinsia.
Anderson received his doctorate in Lund in 2000 and was hired in 2003 at the Department of History in Uppsala as a university lecturer in modern Swedish political history. He was Director of Studies for Master's and doctoral studies 2003-2006 and 2006-20012 Head of the department. Anderson has also served as director of the Manegerial Council for Campus Engelska parken. Currently, he is one of two Directors of Forum for Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Theology.
Research
Lars M Andersson's on-going research:
- Swedish antisemitic propaganda (especially in the 1940s)
- Early Swedish projects to document the Holocaust
- Swedish understanding and writings on antisemitism (especially in the 1960s)

Publications
Recent publications
Happy is he who can forget: A life in 20th century Europe
Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 82-84, 2025
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Från antijudaism till antisemitism: den "judiska" moderniteten
Part of Antisemitism, p. 45-74, Studentlitteratur AB, 2024
Salomon Schulman (1947–2024) In memoriam
Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 2024
Teaching and learning about the Holocaust: a systematic scoping review of existing research
Part of Holocaust Studies, p. 1-21, 2024
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Part of Svenska kommittén mot antisemitism: Nyhetsbrev, p. 14-14, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Salomon Schulman (1947–2024) In memoriam
Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 2024
Teaching and learning about the Holocaust: a systematic scoping review of existing research
Part of Holocaust Studies, p. 1-21, 2024
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Part of Svenska kommittén mot antisemitism: Nyhetsbrev, p. 14-14, 2024
Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 90-111, 2024
- DOI for ‘Until the domination of the Jews is crushed, Sweden is not the land of the Swedes!’: Hammaren as an example of Swedish conspiracist antisemitism, 1943–1945
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Part of Personhistorisk Tidskrift, 2022
Part of Nyhersbrev. Svenska kommittén mot antisemitism. Juni 2018, p. 15-15, 2018
Skrattandets gemenskap eller ren pennalism
Part of Invandrare & Minoriteter, 2002
Articles, review/survey
Dansk-judisk historia - en samlingsrecension
Part of Scandia, 2001
Books
Historiska Media, 2006
Historiska Media, 2003
Mer än tusen ord: Bilden och de historiska vetenskaperna
Historiska Media, 2001
Chapters in book
Från antijudaism till antisemitism: den "judiska" moderniteten
Part of Antisemitism, p. 45-74, Studentlitteratur AB, 2024
Express-zionisten Isaac och den svenska nationen
Part of Issac Grünewald - konst och teater, Prins Eugenes Waldemarsudde, 2022
Alvar Alsterdal -: en introduktion
Part of Antisemitism Antisionism., p. 17-54, Égalité, 2020
Antisemitismen: antirasismens blinda fläck?
Part of Från Afrikakompaniet till Tokyo, Bokförlaget Exkurs, 2017
Juden i svensk film/The Jew in Swedish film
Part of En svensk framgångssaga, Judiska museet i Stockholm, 2014
Schwedische Kinoproduktionen in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren
Part of Handbuch des Antisemitismus, Walter de Gruyter, 2014
Part of Handbuch des Antisemitismus, Walter de Gruyter, 2014
Part of Från sidensjalar till flyktingmottagning, p. 5-16, Historiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, 2013
Part of Handbuch des Antisemitismus, Walter de Gruyter, 2013
Part of Handbuch des Antisemitismus, Walter de Gruyter, 2013
Schwedische antisemitische Organisationen bis 1945
Part of Handbuch des Antisemitismus, p. 550-553, Walter de Gruyter, 2012
Part of En problematisk relation?, p. 7-28, Historiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, 2008
Part of Sverige och Nazityskland, p. 9-25, Dialogos, 2007
Part of Shylock, 2006
Part of Kärlekens pris, 2005
Historisk tidskrift och historien
Part of Historien är nu., Studentlitteratur, 2004
Part of På historiens slagfält, p. 145-160, Sisyfos, 2002
Part of På historiens slagfält, p. 19-24, Sisyfos, 2002
Det nya Kaanan - vinterbild från Åre: Analys av en massbild
Part of Mer än tusen ord, 2001
Collections (editor)
Personhistoriska samfundet, 2023
Personhistoriska samfundet, 2023
Heimat Sverige?: tysk-judisk emigration till Sverige 1774-1945
Faethon förlag, 2021
Från sidensjalar till flyktingmottagning: Judarna i Sverige – en minoritets historia
Historiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, 2013
En problematisk relation?: flyktingpolitik och judiska flyktingar i Sverige 1920-1950
Historiska institutionen, Univ., 2008
Sverige och Nazityskland: skuldfrågor och moraldebatt
Dialogos, 2007
Svenska historiska föreningen, Stockholm, 2005
Svenska historiska föreningen, Stockholm, 2004
Svenska historiska föreningen, Stockholm, 2003
Svenska historiska föreningen, Stockholm, 2002
Other
Happy is he who can forget: A life in 20th century Europe
Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 82-84, 2025
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Svante Hansson (1938-2023) in memoriam
2023
Part of Multiethnica, p. 100-102, 2021
- DOI for Mercédesz Czimbalmos “Intermarriage, Conversion, and Jewish Identity inContemporary Finland: A study of vernacular religion in the Finnish Jewish communities,” (Åbo Akademi University 2021), diss.
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Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 94-98, 2021
- DOI for How do you Jew in Finland?: [Review of:] Mercédesz Czimbalmos: Intermarriage, Conversion and Jewish Identity in Contemporary Finland. A Study of Vernacular Religion in the Finnish Jewish Communities
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Part of Nyhetsbrev. Svenska kommittén mot antisemitism Juni 2018, p. 6-7, 2018
Part of Historisk Tidsskrift, p. 337-341, 2013
Den odanska danska antisemitismen
Part of Scandia, 2004
Recension av Blomquist, Håkan, Socialdemokrat och antisemit? Den dolda historien om Arthur Engberg
Part of Historielärarnas förenings årsskrift, 2003
Recension av Katrine Fangen, En bok om nynazister
Part of Scandia, 2002
Recension av Marilyn Yalom, Bröstens historia
Part of Historisk tidskrift, 2002
Recension av Antony Polonsky, Polin
Part of Historisk tidskrift, 2002
Recension av Yehuda Bauer, Förintelsen i perspektiv
Part of Historisk tidskrift, 2002
Part of Historisk tidskrift, 2002
Recension av Hallberg, Lars, Källor till invandringens historia i Sverige
Part of Scandia, 2001
Recension av Wright, Rochelle, The Visible Wall
Part of Historisk tidskrift, 2001
Recension av Finkelstein, Norman G, The Holocaust Industry
Part of Scandia, 2001
Recension av Pettersson, Gunnar, Mannen som kom tillbaka från de döda
Part of Scandia, 2001
Recension av Larsson, Ulf, Värner Rydén - en biografi
Part of Scandia, 2001