Ilana Tahan, 1946-2024

It saddens us deeply to learn that Ilana Tahan passed away peacefully on Saturday 6 July 2024.

Ilana Tahan at her lecture on the Leather Cut-Book Binding Technique and Meir Jaffe at one session on Jewish Craftspeople and Their Material Evidence, Leeds International Medieval Congress 2019.


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.