Hugo Valentin's scholarly campaign against antisemitism

The Swedish Jewish historian Hugo Valentin (1888–1963) founded the field of history in 1920s. was also a prominent and public figure affairs, as writer, Zionist refugee activist. This article focuses on Valentin’s analysis antisemitism, from 1920s to early 1950s. It pays equal attention continuity change his writings topic, analysed relation such political contexts ‘Jewish question’, Zionism anti-Nazi responses, advances within scholarly research antisemitism. shows that Valen­tin staked out new approach topic which characteristics so-called question, while not completely absent, were placed parentheses. Instead, he presented antisemitism individual antisemites problems their own right, which, given Nazi German expansionism outbreak Second World War, seemed be greater more urgent issue than whatever questions might have pertained Jews place modern society.