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The first Jews in Sweden might have beenHanseatic merchants; records about them are however difficult to find. Gustav Vasa, the first king of independent Sweden in the 16th century, had a doctor who was in government documents referred to as "the Jew". With the expansion of theSwedish Empirein the 17th century came immigration of Jewish merchants and scholars, in particular from German-speaking lands. The Protestant Church of Sweden had concerns that Jews challenged the state religion, and Judaism was prohibited until the 1770s, requiring Jews to be baptized at immigration. Jews could reside in a few cities, but travelling Jewish salespeople, as well asRoma travellers, were treated as vagrants and detained to forced labour. In 1775, King Gustav III gave sealmaker Aaron Isaac a charter to p
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