Resorts, Spas, and Sommerfrische — Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation

Calendar

When:

June 11, 2023 @ 16:00 – June 13, 2023 @ 14:00

2023-06-11T16:00:00+02:00

2023-06-13T14:00:00+02:00

Where:

Josef Fröhlich Saal, Congress Ausseerland
Kurhauspl. 144
8990 Bad Aussee
Austria

Conference

Austria

This international conference aims to explore the Jewish experience in Sommerfrische (Summer holiday) destinations, summer resorts, and spas, focusing on the particular urban processes that led to their emergence and the factors that transformed them into spaces of possibility in a rural or small-town context.

JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber will speak about “Those Who Stayed (and One Who Came Back” about Jewish cemeteries in health resort towns, focusing on Merano/Merano, Italy.

Click here for the Program