Workshop: All That Remains
ALL THAT REMAINS:
EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION OF JEWISH FUNERARY CULTURE
Monday-Tuesday, 11-12 June 2018
Organizer: Dr. Ortal-Paz Saar
Entrance is free, but by advance registration only.
To register please email Ortal-Paz Saar: o.p.saar@uu.nl
‘All That Remains’: Workshop Program
Utrecht University Hall, Belle van Zuylenzaal
Day 1, Monday, June 11, 2018
09:30 Welcome and introductory remarks — Ortal-Paz Saar
09:45 Avriel Bar-Levav (Open University, Israel)
‘Attitudes towards Burial and Cemeteries in Judaism’
10:45 Leonard V. Rutgers (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
‘Jewish Funerary Culture: Whose Heritage Is It Anyway?’
11:45 Coffee break
12:00 Yosef Stepansky (Israel Antiquities Authority)
‘The Ancient Jewish Cemetery in Zefat, Israel: The Epitaphs from the 16th and 17th Centuries and the Problem of their Preservation’
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Lisya Bicaci (TU Delft, Netherlands)
‘The Future of the Past: Stone Grave Markers – Degradation Phenomena and Conservation Challenges’
15:00 Bart Wallet (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam)
‘To Forget or to Remember: Social History and Zeeburg Jewish Cemetery’
Day 2, Tuesday, June 12, 2018
09:30 Ortal-Paz Saar (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
‘The Necessity for a Dialogue’
10:30 H. Daniel Wagner (Weizmann Institute, Israel) and Kamila Klauzińska (Zdunska Wola, Poland, Jewish Cemetery Project)
‘Walking among Colors in Polish Cemeteries’
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Thomas Kollatz (Steinheim Institute, Essen; Digitale Akademie, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz, Germany)
‘Digital Approaches to Cemeteries Preservation and Education’
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Philippe Pierret (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
‘From Beth Hayim to Museum, from Survey to Exhibition: A Journey into Funerary Culture’
15:00 Filip Vukosavovic (National Maritime Museum, Israel)
‘Displaying Death without Dying: Approaching Death in Museum Settings in Israel’
16:00 Workshop conclusion and avenues for future collaboration