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Helle Louise Klein (born 9 July 1966) is a
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and political commentator. Helle Klein was born in Enskede in southern
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. She is the granddaughter of the physicist
Oskar Klein Oskar Benjamin Klein (; 15 September 1894 – 5 February 1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist. Biography Klein was born in Danderyd outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Gottlieb Klein from Humenné in Kingdom of Hungary ...
and the great granddaughter of the rabbi Gottlieb Klein. Helle Klein served as political editor-in-chief of the newspaper '' Örebro-Kuriren'' from 1991 to 1995. In 1995, she started to work as an editorial writer for ''
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'', the largest newspaper in Sweden, where she was political editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2007. She was ordained
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in the
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in January 2008. Klein is a former member of the board of the
Swedish Social Democratic Youth League The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League ( sv, Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Ungdomsförbund ; SSU) is a branch of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in Sweden. The president has been Lisa Nåbo, since ...
(SSU).


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Helle Klein's weblog
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