"They absolutely don’t want you to progress here"

Fascism and Nazi ideology cast a threatening shadow over Finland during its troubled 1930s. This manifested as antisemitism towards the few Jewish students pursuing higher degrees at Finnish universities. One glaring instance of discrimination involved our father, Leo Skurnik, whose advancement in h...

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Main Authors: Samuli Skurnik, Mikael Skurnik
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Donner Institute 2024-12-01
Series:Nordisk Judaistik
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/145425
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description Fascism and Nazi ideology cast a threatening shadow over Finland during its troubled 1930s. This manifested as antisemitism towards the few Jewish students pursuing higher degrees at Finnish universities. One glaring instance of discrimination involved our father, Leo Skurnik, whose advancement in his academic career was blocked at the Helsinki University Department of Medical Chemistry in the late 1930s. In this treatise, we aim to delve deeper into the challenges he faced and how they were intertwined with the antisemitic sentiments prevailing at that time.  
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"They absolutely don’t want you to progress here"
Nordisk Judaistik
Antisemitism in 1930s Finland
Nazi ideology in the university
Blocked Jewish doctoral students
Leo Skurnik's case
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topic Antisemitism in 1930s Finland
Nazi ideology in the university
Blocked Jewish doctoral students
Leo Skurnik's case
url https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/145425
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