Jewish cemeteries conference, Kőszeg, Hungary

As part of the Synagogue Days event in Kőszeg, there will be a one-day international conference on Jewish cemeteries on August 12, titled  “By the border and beyond the border” what Jewish cemeteries tell.

It will take place in Hungarian.

Here is the program. 

9.30 – 10.00 Registration

10.00 – 10.10 greeting

10.10 – 10.30 Edit Balázs, Institute of Higher Studies:

What was left from rural Jewry?

10.30 – 11.00 Lajos Harsányi, Eisenstadt, Austrian Jewish Museum:

Typology of Red Limestone Tombs in the Jewish Cemetery in Karcag

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 – 11.50 Krisztina Krisztina ,Honti Museum:

The two Jewish cemeteries in Iposag (Sahy)… in the footsteps of forgotten information

11.50 – 12.20 Andrea Szabó, Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library:

Methodological and research opportunities in the Soroksar Israelite Cemetery

12.20 – 12.50 Mátyás Király Jewish Museum and Archives:

“From Banat to Bukovina”

Symbols of Transylvanian Jewish cemeteries

12.50 – 13.20 Júlia Csejdy, museologist, art historian:

Jewish cemeteries in Tokaj-Hegyalja

13.20 Comments, Summary

14.00 lunch

15.00 Jewish memories of Kőszeg, City Walk

16.00 – 17.00 Katalin Gürtler archaeologist: Walking tour of the Jewish Cemetery in Kőszeg