Brick, Daniel
BRICK, DANIEL
BRICK, DANIEL (1903–1987), journalist, born in Stockholm, Sweden. He founded a number of short-lived Jewish newspapers and periodicals (some of them together with M. *Ehrenpreis). At the head of a group of young Jewish intellectuals, Brick launched the Judisk Kronika in 1932, which immediately became the organ of the young Zionist movement in Sweden. Brick was the general secretary of the Zionist Organization in Sweden from 1935 to 1949 and in 1952 a forest was planted in his honor in Israel. In 1957 he established the Judiska Kulturinstitutet in Stockholm, where both Jews and non-Jews attended lectures and participated in discussions on Jewish problems. His dedication and hard work made Zionism an accepted part of the Swedish cultural and political scene of his day, aided not least by publications such as Varför anklagar man judarna? ("Why Are the Jews Always Blamed?" 1939, 1944) and Mot anti-Semitism, Svenska författare uttalar sig ("Against Anti-Semitism; Swedish Authors Take a Stand," 1943).
bibliography:
Haaretz (April 18, 1967). add. bibliography: Megilla-Förlaget: Svensk-judisk litteratur 1775–1994 (1995).
[Hugo Mauritz Valentin /
Ilya Meyer (2nd ed.)]