Ethical approval, laws and publication of caring science in the Nordic countries

Abstract. Background: Suicide can have a lasting impact on the social life as well as the physical and mental health of the bereaved. Targeted research is needed to better understand the nature of suicide bereavement and the effectiveness of support. Aims: To take stock of ongoing studies, and to inquire about future research priorities regarding suicide bereavement and postvention. Method: In March 2015, an online survey was widely disseminated in the suicidology community. Results: The questionnaire was accessed 77 times, and 22 records were included in the analysis. The respondents provided valuable information regarding current research projects and recommendations for the future. Limitations: Bearing in mind the modest number of replies, all from respondents in Westernized countries, it is not known how representative the findings are. Conclusion: The survey generated three strategies for future postvention research: increase intercultural collaboration, increase theory-driven research, and build bonds between research and practice. Future surveys should include experiences with obtaining research grants and ethical approval for postvention studies.

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Research ethics versus ethical approval: A response to Tomaselli

The Ethnographic Edge ◽

10.15663/tee.v1i1.20 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Katie Fitzpatrick

Keyword(s):

Research Ethics ◽

Ethical Approval

N/A

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The secrets of Cryptomyces maximus (Rhytismataceae): ecology and distribution in the Nordic countries (Norden), and a morphological and ontogenetic update

Karstenia ◽

10.29203/ka.2012.450 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 59-72

Author(s):

Alfred Granmo ◽

Teppo Rämä ◽

Geir Mathiassen

Keyword(s):

Nordic Countries

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Pent Nurmekund as the translator of Yiddish folksongs into Estonian

Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies ◽

10.30752/nj.69512 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 15 (1-2) ◽

pp. 94-99

Author(s):

Anna Verschik

Keyword(s):

Nordic Countries ◽

Jewish Studies ◽

Jewish Question ◽

The University

One can often hear the question: are there any Jews in Estonia at all? And if there are, is there any reason to speak about Estonian Jewry in the sense we speak about Polish, Lithuanian, Galatian Jewry? Indeed, Estonia has never been a “traditional” land of Jews: during the Russian rule it did not belong to the so-called pale of settlement. Estonia never met with the “Jewish question”, there was no ground either for everyday or for official antisemitism. The Department of Jewish studies in the University of Tartu was the first one of its kind in the Nordic countries. At that time it was not unusual that an Estonian understood some Yiddish, there are also examples of the students who studied seriously the language and the culture of Jews. Pent Nurmekund, a famous polyglot was one of them. Nurmekund had learned a number of Yiddish folksongs and later translated some of them into Estonian. The two songs we are going to speak about are “Toibn” and “Main fraint”. Nurmekund performed both a Yiddish and an Estonian version of the first song. Main fraint was recorded only in Yiddish, the Estonian translation was published in the literary periodical Looming.

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Cultural Zionism in Sweden: Daniel Brick's Judisk krönika

Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies ◽

10.30752/nj.69431 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 108-130

Author(s):

Stephen Fruitman

Keyword(s):

International Perspective ◽

Nordic Countries ◽

Spiritual Renewal ◽

Communal Life ◽

Cultural Life

The present study examines the content of the Swedish-Jewish Zionist periodical Judisk Krönika during its earliest years of publication, 1932 to 1950, under the editorship of its founder, Daniel Brick. The focus will be on how the magazine in its brightest and most ambitious years, acted as a conduit through which the ideas of cultural Zionism flowed into Sweden. Through essays, reports, editorial comments, book reviews and debates, the circle of intellectuals grouped around Brick clamored for a revivification of what they considered to be the moribund cultural life of Swedish Jewry, the result (in their eyes) of decades of Reform dominance in communal life. Not wishing to make themselves any less “Swedish”, the cultural Zionists nevertheless insisted that Jews in Sweden and other Nordic countries needed to adopt an international perspective, integrating the proposed idea for a Jewish national home in Palestine into their lives as a source of cultural pride and spiritual renewal.

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