The Mosaic Parish in Karlskrona

Jews were not allowed to reside in Sweden prior to 1779 and when, in the reign of Gustav III, the first Jews from Swedish Pomerania were encouraged to come in order to stimulate trade in the reign of Gustav III, the Parliamentary Constitutional Committee (Konstitutionsutskottet) sent off to the German states of Saxony and Prussia for copies of the codices regulating protected Jews (German: schutzjude Swedish: skyddsjude pl.

[1] Fabian Philip lived in Karlskrona, the principal naval base and Sweden's second largest city.

Trolle liked the proposition and presented it to King Gustav III, who gave his permission for the Jew Fabian Philip to reside in Karlskrona even though the Judereglementet did not permit it.

Henric af Trolle died in 1784 and the merchants in Karlskrona tried to get rid of the mill called Fabian Philip by writing to the king, but af Trolle's successor, Fleet Admiral Carl August Ehrensvärd, were of the same opinion as his late predecessor.

From 1785 thanks to that Fabian Philip had fulfilled his agreement with the Navy and founded and built the sail factory in Karlskrona, more exactly in Lyckeby, 10 kilometers north of the city, there was a public exception for Fabian Philip and his family to stay in Karlskrona from Commercial Colleges statement of where Jews were allowed to stay in Sweden.

Familjen har aldrig assimilerats, den har alltid varit en del av Karlskrona' - Det karlskronitiska samhället och dess invånare av judisk härkomst 1779-1945 - en annan assimilationshistoria.