Scandinavia Special Interest Group (SIG)

The History about the Jews in Norway

Information about the history of the Jews in Norway can be found on the following links:

• Det Mosaiske Trossamfund (The Jewish Community in Oslo)
  • with a webpage on "The History Of The Jewish community In Oslo"
• The Jewish Community of Trondheim
  • with a link to a webpage on history of the Jewish Community of Trondheim.
• The Jewish Museum of Trondheim (at present only in Norwegian)
• Wergeland's Children - Jewish Life in Norway 1851-1945
• Norwegian-Jewish History before 1851 (Norsk-jødisk historie før 1851) by Olve Utne
  
• - Olve Utne also has a website for Judaica with general information on various topics and Hassafon

• "Iceland and the Holocaust" where Chapter 2: "Jews and the North" and Chapter 3: "Emancipation and Counter-Emancipation" gives a brief outline of the history of the Jews in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Useful Websites for Research in Norway

• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/
• The Norwegian Historical Data Centre University of Tromsø
  has many useful links and information about
  • how to trace your ancestors in Norway
  • the Norwegian censuses
  • and on-line searches in Norwegian censuses
• The Norwegian Emigrant Museum
• The Norwegian Emigration Center
  - on which you can fill out an on-line form with a research request and pay by credit card on-line.

As for emigration and passenger lists: Please go to: Emigration & Passenger Lists

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