The international conference officially kicks off the project “Digital Stone Witnesses. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription,” a major project aimed at documenting the inscription on gravestones in Jewish cemeteries in Germany.
The project is being carried out by the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen in collaboration with the Professorship of Jewish Studies and the Competence Center for Monument Studies and Monument Technologies at the University of Bamberg and is co-led by Lucia Raspe, Mona Hess and Susanne Talabardon.
PROGRAM:
Sunday, 8 September 2024
Keynote Lecture
18:00–18:30 Welcome
18:30–19:30 Carsten Wilke (Vienna): Lapidary Exuberance: European Variations on the Baroque Style in Hebrew Inscriptions
19:30–21:00 Reception
Monday, 9 September 2024
Steinerne Zeugen digital: An Introduction
10:00–10:15 Lucia Raspe (Duisburg-Essen): Research Program and Objectives
10:15–10:30 Mona Hess (Bamberg): Digitisation Methods for Jewish Graveyards
10:30–11:00 Nicola Kramp-Seidel (Essen): Introductory Remarks
Material Evidence
11:30–13:00 Tobias Arera-Rütenik (Bamberg): Formal Features of Gravestones and Possibilities of their Analysis
12:15–13:00 Vladimir Levin (Jerusalem): The Phenomenon of Signed Tombstones in Central Europe: Networks and Mental Maps
Recent Developments in Cemetery Documentation
14:30–15:15 Daniel Polakovič (Prague): Returning Names to People. The Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in the Czech Republic
15:15–16:00 Marcin Wodziński (Wrocław): Researching Jewish Cemeteries in Poland: From Sepulchral Phonebooks to Quantitative Analysis
The German Context
16:30–17:15 Ulrich Knufinke (Hannover/Braunschweig): Jewish Cemeteries in the Focus of Monument Preservation since the Nineteenth Century
17:15–18:00 Christine Magin (Greifswald): The German Epigraphy Project Die Deutschen Inschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit: Objects – Sources – Methods
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Jewish Sepulchral Culture of the Middle Ages
10:00–10:45 Michael Brocke (Essen): Elites of Different Status: Inscriptions from the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century in Search of their Author
10:45–11:30 Ortal-Paz Saar (Utrecht): Emotions on Medieval Jewish Epitaphs
12:00–12:45 Karin Sczech (Erfurt): The Excavation of the Medieval Jewish Cemetery of Erfurt
Text and Intertext
14:00–14:45 Nathanja Hüttenmeister (Essen): Formula and Freedom: The Walsdorf Cemetery in Comparative Perspective
14:45–15:30 Avriel Bar-Levav (Ra’anana): Tombstone Inscriptions and Jewish Textual Intimacy
Settlement Patterns and Cemetery Network
16:00–16:45 Rotraud Ries (Herford): Organization and Spatial Distribution – Early Modern Jewish Cemeteries in Southern and Northern Germany
16.45–17:30 Christiane Müller (Essen): Cemeteries in the Duchy of Cleves and their Inscriptions: Levels of Belonging
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Archival Sources
09:30–10:15 Inka Arroyo Antezana (Jerusalem): Theodor Harburger’s Private Collection for Epigraphers (with a Brief Overview of the CAHJP Holdings on Epigraphy)
10:15–11:00 Susanne Talabardon (Bamberg): Labours of a Long Journey. The Chevra Qadisha in Bamberg and their Cemetery Far Away
Jewish Cemeteries and the Larger Historical Picture
11:30–12:15 Rachel Greenblatt (Waltham, Mass.): Cemetery & Synagogue; Women & Men: Prague Gravestones as Historical Source Material
12:15–13:00 Debra Kaplan (Ramat-Gan): Plotting Communal Hierarchies: Records of Jewish Death and Burial in Early Modern Europe
13:00–13:30 Concluding Discussion
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