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Article: Affaren Rami-Bergman: Dokument om judefientlighet och akademisk rota i Sverige.
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- Scandinavian Studies
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- March 22, 1998
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* Hakan Arvidsson, ed. Affaren Rami-Betrgman: Dokument om judefientlighet och akademisk rota i Sverige. Stockholm: Moderna Tider, 1994. Pp. 403.
In 1989 Ahmed Rami was prosecuted for anti-Semitic propaganda on his local radio station Radio Islam. Hakan Arvidsson's book is a detailed report of the legal proceedings and debates that evolved as Jan Bergman, professor of history of religions at Uppsala University, appeared as an expert witness for his defense.
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