Exhibition of art work by the British artist Beverley Jane Stewart.
“Documenting synagogues, mountain villages and landscapes in Romania, including ancient structures next to modern buildings, connecting events from secular and religious Jewish history with the present, her works tell a timeless story of Jewish life and reflect the artist’s Eastern European roots, creating a cultural mosaic full of nostalgia and contemporary spirit.”
The exhibition is curated by Vera Pilpoul, an art consultant from Israel, and Cleopatra Lorintiu, a poet and author from Romania.
The conference aims “to foster debate on the strategies applied by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the field of Jewish cemetery preservation, as well as the research methods used by specialists and examples of the preservation of Jewish cemeteries from the perspective of their signification as cultural heritage of living communities.”
The conference is supported by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, the Alba Iulia Jewish Community, Bar Ilan University, and Alba County Council, among others.
It is seen as a follow up to several other conferences, including European Jewish Cemeteries: An Interdisciplinary Conference, co-organized by JHE in Vilnius, 2015 and Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence, Kraków, 2018; as well as published research such as Rudolf Klein’s Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study, 2018; and projects devoted such as those by the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, initiated in 2015.
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