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International Conference Urban Jewish Cemeteries in Central–Eastern Europe between Early Modern and the Present Times: Research and Valuation 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage, The National Museum of Union Alba Iulia and Alba Iulia Jewish Community Alba Iulia, Romania, October 13-15, 2024 ACADEMIC COMMITTEE: Professor Madeea Larisa Axinciuc, PhD University of Bucharest, Romania Department of Jewish Studies Adrian Cioflâncă Researcher, College of the National Council for the Study of Security Archives President of Wilhelm Filderman Center for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews Professor Daniel Dumitran, PhD 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania Department of History, Archaeology and Museology Lucian-Zeev Herșcovici, PhD Librarian, The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem Dan Dumitru Iacob, PhD Researcher, Department of Urban History, Romanian Academy Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Sibiu, Romania Pál Lővei, PhD Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Professor Ilia Rodov, PhD Bar Ilan University, Israel, Department of Jewish Art ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Professor Daniel Dumitran, PhD 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania Initiator of the research project of the Jewish cemetery in Alba Iulia Sidonia Petronela Olea, PhD Restorer, Coordinator of the AFCP project Conservation and Restoration of Monumental Funerary Stones in the Jewish Cemetery in Alba Iulia, Romania National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia Claudiu Stoian, PhD Lecturer and Director of the Jewish Studies program University of Bucharest, Romania Program Opening Event: October 13, 2024, 15.30 – 17.00 Old Synagogue of Alba Iulia Tudor Vladimirescu Str., no. 2 EVENTS OF THE CONFERENCE Exhibition Lost Histories: The Memory of the Oldest Jewish Cemetery from Bucharest Curator: Anca Tudorancea (University of Bucharest / Center for the Study of the History of Jews in Romania Wilhelm Filderman, FEDROM). Graphics: Irina Weiner Spirescu (Ministry of Culture). Opening: Sunday, October 13, at 15.45 Book Presentation Histories Written in Stone: Research, Conservation and Restoration at the Jewish Cemetery of Alba Iulia Sunday, October 13, at 16.15 Visit Tour of the Alba Iulia Cemetery Sunday, October 13, at 17.45 GENERAL PROGRAM Registration Sunday, October 13, between 15.00 and 17.00 Old Synagogue of Alba Iulia Alba Iulia, Tudor Vladimirescu Str., no. 2 Monday, October 14, between 8.00 and 9.00 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia Alba Iulia, Gabriel Bethlen Str., no. 5 6 Sunday, October 13 Old Synagogue of Alba Iulia Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83873211109?pwd=tsbTDZEODZkFQ2 mo5DkCwgvcNE5OoL.1 15.30-15.45 Opening ceremony, inaugural addresses 15.45-16.15 The exhibition Lost Histories: The Memory of the Oldest Jewish Cemetery from Bucharest Curator: Anca Tudorancea (University of Bucharest / Center for the Study of the History of Jews in Romania Wilhelm Filderman, FEDROM). Graphics: Irina Weiner Spirescu (Ministry of Culture). 16.15-16.30 Book presentation Histories Written in Stone: Research, Conservation and Restoration at the Jewish Cemetery of Alba Iulia Editors: Sidonia-Petronela Olea, Daniel Dumitran Contributors: Lucian-Zeev Herșcovici, Claudiu Stoian, and Călin Șuteu Muzeul Național al Unirii Alba Iulia / Editura Mega, Alba Iulia / ClujNapoca, 2024 16.30-17.00 Old Jewish Songs. Musical moment organized by Prof. Ioan Chiciudean, Regina Maria High School of Arts, Alba Iulia. 7 Mezzo-soprano: Daniela Mailat; Tenor: Nicolae Bogdan Velicea; Soprano: Ariana Gabriela Făt; Tenor: Prof. dr. Ioan Chiciudean; Piano: Prof. Ruben Morar. 17.00-17.45 Cocktail Old Synagogue of Alba Iulia 17.45-19.00 The tour of the Alba Iulia Jewish Cemetery Alba Iulia, Vasile Alecsandri Str. 8 Monday, October 14 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia Alba Iulia, Gabriel Bethlen Str., no. 5 Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85478243565?pwd=aUrG5GS9MKUfN Ov3HeqLAMN5iELbmh.1 9.00 – 13.10 Keynote lecture and papers presentations 13.10-14.50 Lunch Carolina Heritage Restaurant Alba Iulia, Unirii Str., no. 11 14.50-19.20 Papers presentation, keynote lecture and discussion 19.30-21.00 Dinner Carolina Heritage Restaurant 9 Tuesday, October 15 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia Alba Iulia, Gabriel Bethlen Str., no. 5 Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82940831239?pwd=xXJ3UUAZ4GodbN b87b6r8baKC6bOtq.1 9.00 – 13.10 Keynote lecture and papers presentations 13.10-14.50 Lunch Carolina Heritage Restaurant Alba Iulia, Unirii Str., no. 11 14.50-19.20 Papers presentation, keynote lecture and closing of the conference 19.30-21.00 Dinner Carolina Heritage Restaurant 10 DETAILED PROGRAM Monday, October 14 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Senate Hall Alba Iulia, str. Gabriel Bethlen, nr. 5 9.00-9.30 Keynote lecture Rudolf Klein (Óbuda University, Miklós Ybl Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Budapest) Some Large Jewish Cemeteries in Europe – Typologies, Genealogies and Context 9.30-9.50 Break General Overviews: Trends of Spatial, Historical and Artistic Evolution in the Jewish Cemeteries Chair: Rudolf Klein 9.50-10.20 Anna Michałowska-Mycielska (University of Warsaw) Space of Jewish Cemeteries in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th-18th C.) 10.20-10.50 Lucian-Zeev Herșcovici (National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Retired) Old Jewish Cemeteries Preserved and Vanished in the Extra-Carpathic Region of Romania: General Considerations (online presentation) 10.50-11.20 Jaroslav Klenovsky (The Jewish Community of PrahaBrno) Jewish Urban Cemeteries in the Czech Republic 11.20-11.40 Break 11 11.40-12.10 Cecília Hausmann (ELTE University, Budapest, Doctoral School of Philosophy: Art Historical Studies) Space, Style, Material Culture. A Typology of Modernist Jewish Funeral Art in the Former Kingdom of Hungary (online presentation) The Fate of Jewish Cemeteries in the Twentieth and TwentyFirst Centuries Chair: Lucian-Zeev Herșcovici 12.10-12.40 Tamara Kutsaieva (National Historical-Architectural Museum Kyiv Fortress), Olexandra Buzko (Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine) Archival Documents of 1924 and the Virtual Reconstruction of the Destroyed Urban Jewish Cemetery in Boryspil, Ukraine (online presentation) 12.40-13.10 Anca Tudorancea (University of Bucharest / Center for the Study of the History of Jews in Romania Wilhelm Filderman, FEDROM) Invisible Presence. The Photos of the Victims of Bucharest Pogrom (January 1941) Inside of Bucharest Jewish Cemeteries 13.10-14.50 Lunch 14.50-15.20 Janina_Naskalska Babik (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) Podgórze Jewish Cemeteries: A Vanished Heritage? (online presentation) 12 15.20-15.50 Iwona Brzewska (Jewish Warsaw) Non omnis moriar (online presentation) Historical Institute, Jewish Cemeteries and the Issue of Heritage Chair: Ilia Rodov 15.50-16.20 Tamás Csáki (ELTE University Budapest, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Art History / Budapest History Museum) The Salgótarjáni Street Jewish Cemetery in Budapest: A Place Between Ashkenazi Tradition and Bourgeois Funerary Representation 16.20-16.35 Break 16.35-17.05 Cezar Petre Buiumaci (Municipality Museum of Bucharest) Jewish Monuments in Bucharest 17.05-17.35 Magdalena Duda-Seifert (University of Wroclaw, Department of Regional Geography and Tourism), Jewish Cemetery Within the Urban Space: From Oblivion to Appreciation 17.35-18.05 Ruth Ellen Gruber (Director of the website jewishheritage-europe.eu; Former Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, College of Charleston) Jewish Cemeteries and Tourism: Integrating Visitors but Preserving the Sanctity 18.05-18.20 Break 18.20-18.50 Keynote lecture 13 Ilia Rodov (Bar-Ilan University) Portraying the Soul’s Virtues: Zoomorphic Images on Jewish Tombstones 18.50-19.20 Discussions 19.30-21.00 Dinner 14 Tuesday, October 15 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Senate Hall Alba Iulia, str. Gabriel Bethlen, nr. 5 9.00-9.30 Keynote lecture Ruth Ellen Gruber (Director of the website jewish-heritageeurope.eu; Former Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, College of Charleston) Jewish Cemeteries: Protecting, Preserving, Visiting 9.30-9.50 Break Documentation, Investigation and Protection Methods (I) Chair: Ruth Ellen Gruber 9.50-10.20 Vladimir Levin, Ekaterina Oleshkevich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Jewish Art) Jewish Cemeteries, Signatures of Tombstone Makers, and Mental Maps (online presentation) 10.20-10.50 Liliana Condraticova (Academy of Sciences of Moldova) The Aesthetics of Artistic Iron from the Jewish Cemetery in Chișinău 10.50-11.20 Agnieszka Nieradko (The Rabbinical Commission for Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and the Zapomniane Foundation) The Rabbinical Commission for Jewish Cemeteries in Poland: How Combining the Guidelines of Jewish Law with Modern Technologies Contribute to Saving Jewish Cemeteries (online presentation) 11.20-11.40 Break 15 11.40-12.10 Valentin Ștefan (SC Metamorfozys SRL) Techniques for Carving Funerary Monuments. Case Study: The Jewish Cemetery in Alba Iulia Regional Overviews: Jewish Cemeteries and the Topography of the Urban Space Up to the Late Modern Period Chair: Daniel Dumitran 12.10-12.40 Dan Iacob (Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Sibiu) Urban Jewish Cemeteries in Moldavia in Cartographic Sources from the 18th-19th Centuries (online presentation) 12.40-13.10 Felicia Grigorescu (County Museum of Satu Mare) Urban Jewish Cemeteries from the North-Western Romania, in the Context of European Modernity 13.10-14.50 Lunch 14.50-15.20 Laurențiu Rădvan (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași) The Old Jewish Cemetery in Iași: A Historical and Urban Topography Approach (17th-19th Centuries) (online presentation) 15.20-15.50 Jens Carlesson Magalhães (University of Gothenburg) “As Abraham’s First Property in Canaan Was a Cemetery…”: The Changing Landscape of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1792–1915 (online presentation) 16 Documentation, Investigation and Protection Methods (II) Chair: Daniel Dumitran and Claudiu Stoian 15.50-16.20 Claudiu Stoian (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of Jewish Studies) Matsevah As a Memorial: A Textual Analysis of Tombstones from Alba Iulia Jewish Cemetery 16.20-16.35 Break 16.35-17.05 Irina Șihova, Iuliu Palihovici (The Museum of the History of Jews from the Republic of Moldova, Chișinău) Jewish Cemeteries of Chișinău and Vadul Rașcov: One Country, Two Cases 17.05-17.35 Sidonia Olea (National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia) Preservation and Restoration of Funerary Tombstones from the Jewish Cemetery in Alba Iulia: A Decade of Activity 17.35-18.05 Călin Șuteu (1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia / Gigapixel Art SRL) Modern Technologies in the Documentation of the Jewish Cemetery of Alba Iulia: 10 Years After 18.05-18.20 Break 18.20-18.50 Keynote lecture Daniel Dumitran (1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia) Romanian Jewish Cemeteries in European Context: 17 Research and Valuation 18.50-19.20 Closing of the Conference 19.30-21.00 Dinner 18 Exhibition: Lost Histories: The Memory of the Oldest Jewish Cemetery from Bucharest Alba Iulia, Romania, October 13-15, 2024 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia International Conference Urban Jewish Cemeteries in Central–Eastern Europe between Early Modern and the Present Times: Research and Valuation