Maja Hultman
About Maja Hultman
I am a cultural historian with a PhD in History from University of Southampton (U.K.). My research interests are European Jewish culture and modern urban history. I specifically focus on Jewish/non-Jewish dialectics, the relationship between European/global networks and local culture, as well as the Holocaust. In my research, I use spatial, digital, transnational, architectural and emotional methods to explore internal hierarchies, majority/minority intersections, the migration of knowledge, cultural-economic networks and cultural borders. I also employ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map and analyse patterns of urban settlement and movements.
My postdoctoral position is jointly placed at the Department of Historical Studies and CERGU (Centre for European Research). I am also a research fellow at Centre for Business History in Stockholm.
I teach courses related to the BA degree in History and the European Programme at University of Gothenburg. My courses and lectures focus on cultural heritage and cultural elements in urban history, Jewish studies and minority studies, as well as Digital Humanities.
Go to my website for more information on research, teaching, publications and upcoming events.
My current research projects are:
The Effects of the Shoah on European Jewish Business Networks and Cultural Mobility
My postdoc-project explores transnational cultural-economic networks before and after the Holocaust through the prism of two Swedish-Jewish business families. It illuminates the cultural effects of ethnic genocide in one European nation by exploring the minority's cultural development in other parts of Europe.
Jewish Economic Activity and Stockholm's Development into a modern Capital
The project explores Jewish donations towards the construction of public cultural institutions in Stockholm 1870-1930, and how these economic-cultural activities served as Jewish manifestations of Swedishness and contributed to Stockholm's modern development. This is a joint project with Dr Mia Kuritzén Löwengart at Uppsala University and it is funded by Torsten Söderbergs stiftelse.
Jewish Feelings in the City: Emotional Topography and Power Relations in modern Stockholm
The doctoral thesis from 2019 emphasises the city's fundamental role in influencing the Jewish community's settlement patterns, internal cultural infrastructure, and construction of public buildings when making themselves at home after emancipation. I use emotional analysis in the coming book to further explore the social dynamics that shaped the relationship between the city's physical form and Jewish internal hierarchies.
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Revisiting space and emotion: New ways to study buildings and
feelings
Maja Hultman, Sophie Cooper
History Compass - 2023 -
Jews, Europe, and the business of
culture
Maja Hultman, Benito Peix Geldart, Anders Houltz
Jewish Culture and History - 2023 -
The GIS prism: Beyond the Myth of Stockholm's
Ostjuden
Maja Hultman
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age / Edited by Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis and Amalia S. Levi - 2022 -
Bland bröllopsklänningar, begravningsvagnar och shoppingkvitton: judiska kvinnor i Stockholm under 150
år
Maja Hultman
2022 -
Atmospheres of the other: Building and feeling Stockholm's orthodox
synagogue
Maja Hultman
Emotion, Space and Society - 2022 -
Mångfasetterat men entonigt om svensk-judisk
historia
Maja Hultman
Respons - 2021 -
Marcus Ehrenpreis in an international
context
Maja Hultman
Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies - 2021 -
Synagogan: Ett nav för olika judiska
identiteter
Maja Hultman
Jag må bo mitt ibland dem: : Stockholms stora synagoga 150 år - 2020 -
‘Carried to his last rest’: public funerals as Jewish/non-Jewish spaces in modern
Stockholm
Maja Hultman
Jewish Culture and History - 2020 -
Staging the Jewish bourgeois home: Women as consumers and producers of diverse public spaces in Stockholm at the beginning of the twentieth
century
Maja Hultman
Nordisk Judaistik - 2020 -
The Construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, 1860–1870: A Space for Jewish and Swedish-Christian
Dialogues
Maja Hultman
Arts - 2020