With the financial support of the German Foreign Ministry and in cooperation with the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Judaica and the Jewish community of Ivano-Frankivsk, the ESJF organizes a seminar designed for historians, local activists, school teachers, employees of non-governmental organizations, volunteers and other interested persons who care about the problem of preservation of historical heritage, in particular, Jewish cemeteries.
Participation in the seminar is free.
Participants from outside Ivano-Frankivsk will be compensated for transportation costs and booked one night of hotel accommodation.
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\The number of participants is limited.
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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