The International Conference on Cemetery Studies, organized by the Harokopio University in collaboration with the University of York, will take place from 18 to 20 April 2024 at the Harokopio University in Athens, Greece.
The event will bring together a wide spread of academics, presenting their latest research findings concerning various aspects of cemeteries (end of 18th century onwards), including history, art and culture, anthropology, geography, social studies, and cemetery tourism.
The conference fee is 30 euros (15 euros for doctoral students). The fee includes a light lunch, refreshments, and a guided tour in the historical cemetery of Athens.
The Jewish Community of Trieste is hosting two guided tours of the Jewish Cemetery. They’ll be on Thursday, May 2nd, and Thursday, May 9th, both at 10:00 a.m. Space is limited, so booking is required. For details and reservations, visit@triestebraica.it.
For Italian speakers — a meeting with architect and historian Andrea Morpurgo who last year curated a major exhibition on synagogues and Jewish cemeteries at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara.
You can attend in person or via streaming:
In presenza:
Biblioteca Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano “Tullia Zevi” – Lungotevere Sanzio 5, Roma
In streaming:
Facebook e YouTube della Fondazione per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia
Webtv dell’Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane
The Jewish Community of Trieste is hosting two guided tours of the Jewish Cemetery. They’ll be on Thursday, May 2nd, and Thursday, May 9th, both at 10:00 a.m. Space is limited, so booking is required. For details and reservations, visit@triestebraica.it.
On Sunday, May 12th at 11:00 AM, in the Old Ghetto of Venice, there will be a presentation of “The Ancient Jewish Cemetery at the Lido di Venezia,” curated by Dario Calimani and published by Sillabe. The book includes contributions by Giovanni Levi, Umberto Fortis, and Aldo Izzo, along with a collection of literary excerpts that allow the reader to delve into the history of this special place through the words of noted visitors, starting with Shelley and Byron. The book can also be purchased online on the publisher’s website HERE.
In the afternoon, at 1:00 PM, 2:30 PM, and 3:45 PM, it will be possible to visit the Old Cemetery accompanied by an expert guide. To book, call: +39 041 5246083.
A presentation on the initiative to build a new Moravian Jewish Museum in Brno, Czech Republic.
An event organized by the Jewish-Christian Friendship Association in collaboration with the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy. The event will take place on June 5, 2024, at 6:30 PM, at Sala Margana – via Margana 41, Rome. The event will take place in person in Italian.
Discovered by chance in 1918 under the stables of the villa from which it takes its name, the recent restorations at the catacomb have led to important discoveries.
Introduced by: Roberta Ascarelli and Dario Disegni
Speakers: Elsa Laurenzi – Excavations and discoveries: From 1918 to the present day
Micaela Vitale – The epigraphic inventory: Old data and new discoveries
Claudio Procaccia – Enhancement of Jewish archaeological heritage
The annual conference of the Association of European Jewish Museums -AEJM.
The theme this year is From Crisis to Creativity: Resilience and Renewal in Jewish Museums.
Click here for the program
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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