Interview Lizzie Oved Scheja, Stockholm, 28.01.2015 (engl.)

Lizzie Oved Scheja is founder- director of J! Jewish Culture in Sweden, an independent organization that initiates and realizes programs with Jewish cultural identity and perspectives as starting point, while examining their relevance to contemporary society. Lizzie works internationally in forming cultural cooperation and developing platforms for interdisciplinary dialogues. Lizzie graduated from UCLA School of Fine Arts and has been directing and realizing high profile programs in leading institutions examples of which are the international congress The New European Cultural Landscape and the Jewish Experience(Moderna Museet, 2006; recipient of the Culture 2000 grant of EU); The Transformation of Memory -Jewish Perspectives (in Memory of Raoul Wallenberg, Berns 2012) and Jewish Vienna- the Formation of Modernity (2014, Berns). Former Israel’s cultural Attaché to Sweden, Lizzie is translator of Scandinavian Drama and works closely with Habima – Israel National Theater. She is also an independent writer in the Magazine Jewish Chronicles.