Patric Klagsbrun Lebenswerd

• Sociolingvistiska och sociopolitiska perspektiv på flerspråkighet (Sociolinguistic and socio-political perspectives on multilingualism), Undergraduate course at Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Fall 2015, Spring 2016

Our People's Language – The Fluctuating Linguistic Market of a National(ized) Minority in Sweden

My research explores three transformative periods in the history of Swedish Jewry—the struggle for civil and political rights ('emancipation'), the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel— and their respective sociolinguistic impacts on linguistic practices among Jews in Sweden. Empirically, I primely focus on the historical formation and institutional dissemination of the linguistic ideologies and metadiscursive activities informing, shaping and transforming not only the very linguistic practices, but also the ways in which Jews in Sweden identify with languages such as Hebrew, German, Swedish and Yiddish.     

Publications

• Klagbrun Lebenswerd, P. J (2018) Jewish Swedish in Sweden. In Benjamin Hary & Sarah Bunin Benor (eds.) Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present. Berlin: De Gruyter Moutin. pp. 431-452
• Klagbrun Lebenswerd, P. J (2015) Jewish Swedish. In  Lily Kahn & Aaron D. Rubin (eds.) Handbook of Jewish languages. Leiden: Brill. pp. 618–29