Anti-Semitism in Norway
Anti-Semitism in Norway was rooted in the anti-Jewish strands of the Lutheran Church. Article II of the 1814 Norwegian Constitution banned Jews, along with Jesuits and monastic orders, from the Kingdom. The anti-Jewish paragraph was repealed from the Constitution in 1851, following a campaign mounted by the poet Henrik Wergeland.
The number of Jews in Norway never reached more than 2,000. There were few explicitly anti-Jewish organizations in Norway. The First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia did, however, trigger anti-Semitism also in neutral Norway, as did the economic crises of the 1920s and the 1930s.