• Materializing Memory and Sanctifying Place – Jewish Sephardic Heritage in Contemporary Spain

  • Threads of Identity – The Evolution of Israeli Fashion and the Attempt to Create a National Dress

  • The Written Silent, the Visible Absence, and the Text in the Written after 1945 – Materiality of Catastrophe, Exile and Belonging in Barbara Honigmann’s Writings

  • Processing Loss and Fostering Resilience – Jewish and Female Sculptural Strategies of Coping with the 20th Century

  • Shattered Objects, Shattered Spaces – The Destruction of Jewish Homes in the November Pogroms of 1938

  • Corresponding with history – Jewish Postage Stamp Collectors and Jewish Emancipation

  • Nation-Building and Cultural Heritage – The Making of the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem, 1892–1948

  • Soviet Jewish Objects – Mark Zhitnitskii’s Album ‘Voina 1941-1945’ (mid-1980s)

  • DVARIM POLANIM – Material Culture and the Changing Identity of Polish Jews in Israel across the 20th Century

  • Texting Boundaries – Postcards and Postcarding Practices on the Verge

  • Between Ruins and Revival – Jewish Identity and Material Heritage in Post-Communist Poland

  • Places of Jewish Knowledge – The Wissenschaft des Judentums and its Material Sites in Berlin’s Urban Landscape, 1871–1961

  • Simmering Belongings – Jewish Foodways in Socialist Yugoslavia

  • Traces of belonging(s) – on the materiality of the imprisonment experience of Jewish women in the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp

  • Puppets, Dolls, and Performing Objects of the Holocaust

  • History in Real Time – Collecting and Curating Contemporary Objects in Jewish Museums

  • Private Photography and Family Albums of Jews in Germany after 1945

  • Matters of Presence – Conservation and the Afterlives of Jewish Objects

  • Excitement, Uncertainty, and Nostalgia – Everyday Objects of Soviet-Jewish Refuseniks

  • Aufbau im Übergang – Curt Wormann and the Jewish National and University Library between Nation-building and Cultural Diplomacy

  • Jewish Antiquarian Bookshops in Nazi-occupied Netherlands

  • To Change, Question, and Criticize – Concepts of a ‘Werk’ and Concepts of Objects in Illustrated Magazines in Berlin and Vienna during the 1920s.

  • Surviving Images – Phantoms of a lost past

  • “Mes poumons comme les rouleaux de la Thora” – Towards a Poetics of the Trace: Jewishness, Exile, and Writing in the Work of Hélène Cixous