Hugo Valentin Centre (HVC)

Université d'Uppsala

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The Hugo Valentin Center is a unit at the Department of History tasked with promoting and conducting research in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The subject includes the history of the Holocaust, the study of genocide and similar systematic crimes against human rights, as well as the effects of violence on individuals and society. Research and education at the Centre has a distinctly interdisciplinary character, with a particular focus on comparative analysis.

The Centre is named after the Swedish historian Hugo Valentin (1888–1963), a scholar and educator well-known in his time for his comprehensive history of the Jews in Sweden (Judarnas historia i Sverige; 1924). The book is still the main work on the immigration and integration of the Jewish group in Sweden. Beside a number of historical works on Swedish and general eighteenth-century history, Valentin also attained an unparalleled expertise on the so-called Jewish question in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, and monitored the development on the continent from the interwar years onwards, and during and after the Second World War. Books like the internationally disseminated and noticed Antisemitism: Historically and Critically Examined (1935; with several translated editions), as well as 'The Battle over Palestine' (1940) and 'The Jews during the Second World War' (1945) belong to his accomplishments here. His articles and speeches about Nazi Germany's politics of mass murder of the Jews from October 1942 and later are further among the first qualified treatments of these events in Sweden. Valentin earned respect also as a teacher at the upper secondary schools in Falun and Uppsala and as a public educator. He received the academic title of docent (approx. Reader) from Uppsala University in 1930, and was given the honorary title of professor by the Swedish government in 1948.

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Europe : Suède
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Institutions non françaises : Université

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