Upcoming Conference: Archaeology of Judaism in Europe

Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 March 2022, Paris

Conference organised by the Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives, the German Historical Institute in Paris and the Museum of Jewish Art and History

Twelve years after the colloquium “Archaeology of Judaism in France and in Europe”, this meeting aims to take stock of the progress made in archaeological research on European Judaism from Antiquity to the 20th century, focusing on the most significant recent discoveries on a continental scale. Indeed, the development of preventive archaeology and a new attention paid to the sites of Jewish presence have contributed to the multiplication of excavations and to the enlargement of this field, both chronologically – now including the modern and contemporary periods – and methodologically with the appearance of new approaches. Without aiming to be exhaustive, the conference will propose syntheses and case studies on places of worship (synagogues, ritual baths, etc.), the topography of medieval Jewish settlements and ghettos of the modern period, funerary spaces, sites of the Shoah, new methodological approaches and the patrimonialization of the sites studied.


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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“.