Presentations

  • “Lukhyes: Jiddische Taschenkalender aus den Niederlanden”, XIX. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, 14 September 2016)
  • “History and Memory: Reformations and the Jews”, Theological University Apeldoorn (Apeldoorn, 11 May 2016)
  • “Religious Traditions and European Memory Cultures in the Wake of World War I”, Conference University of Cambridge/AHRC Research Project ‘The Book and the Sword: The Bible in/and World War I’. Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (Munich, 4 April 2016)
  • “Verschuivingen in de herinneringscultuur. De Sjoa en de Nederlandse samenleving sinds 1945”, 15e Kamp Amersfoort Lezing. Memorial Centre Camp Amersfoort (Amersfoort, 17 February 2016)
  • “Ritual Slaughter and the Politics of Religious Diversity”, Zeytun Academic Exchange; Egyptian students’ seminar. Political Sciences Department, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 4 February 2016)
  • “Vroomheid en beschaving. Het joodse boek in de negentiende eeuw”, Invited Lecture, 25 Years’ Jubilee Conference ‘Vereniging Hebreeuws’ (Amsterdam, 10 December 2015)
  • “Religie en publiek domein: De Zondagswet en de Nederlandse religiegeschiedenis”, Symposium ‘De Zondagswet: overheid, religie en publiek domein’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 8 December 2015)
  • “‘Neen: Ik ben niet alleen’. Jacob Israël de Haan, jodendom, zionisme en antizionisme”, Zevende Jacob Israël de Haan Lezing, Special Collections, University Library Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 22 October 2015)
  • “From the Margins to the Centre: Jews, Society and Morality in Postwar Netherlands”, Invited Lecture Dutch Institute Athens (Athens, 19 October 2015)
  • “Religion, Integration and Citizenship: Belgian Jewry during the ‘Dutch’ Period, 1815-1840”, Invited Lecture University of Antwerp (Antwerp, 30 April 2015)
  • “Jews and the Multicultural Society”, NWO Conference Jews and Muslims in a Changing Society (Amsterdam, 31 March 2015)
  • “Kosher Food, Heritage and Culture”, NWO Conference Halal Food, Heritage and Dutch Society (Amsterdam, 27 March 2015)
  • “Towards a Dutch Jewish Library: The Amsterdam Jewish Book Industry, 1795-1850”, Weston Library, Bodleian Library (Oxford, 26 January 2014)
  • “Teaching Jewish History: Contexts, Methods, Materials”, Semi-Plenary Session on Teaching Jewish Studies: Issues, Challenges, Solutions, Xth Congress European Association of Jewish Studies (Paris, 23 July 2014)
  • “‘Our Whole Nation is in Favour of the Prince’: Ashkenazim, Sephardim and Dutch Politics in the Eighteenth Century”, Xth Congress European Association of Jewish Studies, (Paris, 21 June 2014)
  • “Secularism and Community – Historical Perspectives”, Conference Säkulares Judentum!?, Universität Zürich (Zürich, 16 June 2014)
  • “Global Jewish Solidarity: The Joint and the Reconstruction of Dutch Jewry”, Conference 100 Years Joint, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 25 May 2014)
  • “Imagined Spaces: Jews and their Imaginations of Erez Yisrael”, Congres Excalibur, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (Nijmegen, 3 April 2014)
  • “Eine Familie der Gemeinschaften. Die Dynamik der jüdischen Niederlande in der Nachkriegszeit”, Kolloquium Geschichte der Juden in den Niederlanden, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Münster, 14 March 2014)
  • “Judaism(s) and Diasporic Identities. (Re)imaging Jewish Identity in Postwar Europe”, Conference Religion, Culture and Identity: Rethinking Minority Identities in West-European Cultures, Evangelical Theological Faculty Leuven (Leuven, 8 November 2013)
  • “The Shoah after 1989: Dutch Jewry, ‘Die Wende’ and the Transformation of Holocaust Memory”, International Conference Competing Memories, University of Amsterdam/VU University Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 30 October 2013)
  • “The Battle for Jewish Sympathy: The House of Orange, the Dutch Jews and Postwar Morality”, Conference The Jew as Legitimation, Menasseh ben Israel Institute Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 29 August 2013)
  • “From Species Hollandia Judaica to International Judaisms: Reflections on the Dynamics of Postwar Dutch Jewry”, NWO-Symposium Dynamics of Memory (Amsterdam, 3 July 2013)
  • “Historiography, Ideology and Religious Controversies: Jacques Basnage and Menahem Amelander Continuing Josephus in the Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic”, Jewish Reception of Josephus in the 18th and 19th Centuries in Western Europe, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (Oxford, 17 June 2013)
  • “Orangists, Patriots and Jews – the Politicization of Jews in the Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic”, Places of Encounter, Jews and Non-Jews in the Low Countries (1500-1800), Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, 14 March 2013)
  • “Vroom in Gelderland. De regionale identiteit van Gelderse joden, 1815-1950”, Vreemdelingen in Gelderland, Historische Vereniging Gelre (Nijmegen 2 March 2013)
  • “Integratie, identiteit en architectuur. Nederlandse joden en hun synagoges”, Symposium Architectuur van synagoges, Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, 22 November 2012)
  • “Reconstruction or renewal? Dutch Jewry since 1945“, Heimkehrende Pioniere, Jüdisches Leben nach 1945 in West-Deutschland, der DDR und den Niederländen, Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 12 October 2012)
  • “Ritueel slachten en godsdienstvrijheid in een seculiere samenleving”, Godsdienst onder druk? Vrijheid, angst en conflict, Religious Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 1 June 2012)
  • “Religious rites in a secular society. Ritual slaughter, religious diversity and Dutch politics (1919-2012)”, Regimes of religious pluralism in 20th-century Europe, Universiteit van Amsterdam/VU University Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 20 April 2012)
  • “’The Great Eagle, the Pride of Jacob’, Joseph Hirsch Dünner in Dutch Jewish Memory Culture”, Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 22 November 2011)
  • “Voor ons Oranje en Israël. De joodse Oranjemythe”, symposium ‘Joodse loyaliteiten in Nederland’, Menasseh ben Israel Institute, De Balie  (Amsterdam, 25 May 2011)
  • “Transformation of a Diaspora. The Western Sephardic Diaspora in the Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)”, Judaism in the Mediterranean Context, Ninth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (Ravenna, 28 July 2010)
  • “The Vaad Hahatzala and the Reconstruction of Orthodoxy in the Netherlands, 1945-1950”, Third Contact Day Jewish Studies in the Low Countries, Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, 11 May 2010)
  • “Rebuilding upon the ruins. Jewish Amsterdam after World War II”, Hidden stories, forced removals and civic engagement, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 28 January 2010)
  • “From Political Activism to Cultural Identification. Dutch Jewry between the Netherlands and Israel”, The UC-Utrecht Symposium on Jewish Politics and Political Behavior II, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht, 1 December 2008)
  • “Brabantse joden tussen Oranje en ‘le peuple belge’. Migratie en de joodse gemeenschappen in Brabant (1815-1839)”, XVde Colloquium ‘De Brabantse Stad’, mobiliteit en integratie, de Brabantse steden en migratie, Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, 18 October 2008)
  • “Politics and Jewish Communities. The Centralization of Western European Jewry”, The UC-Utrecht Symposium on Jewish Politics and Political Behavior I, Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, 12 October 2008)
  • “Growth and Centralization. The South Netherlandish Jewish Communities during the period of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1814-1830”, Conference Justice for a Minority, Two Centuries of Institutional Arrangements for Jews in Belgium, Instituut voor Joodse Studies, Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, 19 May 2008)
  • “Belgian Independence, Orangism, and Jewish Identity – the Jewish Communities in Belgium during the Belgian Revolt (1830-1839)”, KNAW Conference Borders and Boundaries in and Around Dutch Jewry (Amsterdam, 21 November 2007)
  • “Brokers and Gatekeepers, 18th-Century Yiddish Historiography and its Hebrew and Christian Sources”, VIII Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (Moscow, 25 July 2006)
  • “Polemiek en realiteit, islambeelden in de vroegmoderne joodse historiografie”, [Polemics and Reality, Images of Islam in Early Modern Jewish Historiography] Opening lecture academic year 2005-2006 of the departments of Hebrew and Arabic of the Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 30 August 2005)
  • “Menahem Man ben Shlomo Amelander and His Yiddish History Book She’eris Yisro’el (1743)”, Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, 2 August 2005)
  • “’Hob gesjribn ale zachn di oens jehoediem iz iber gekoemen’, Jiddische historiografie in Nederland (1696-1812)” [Yiddish Historiography in the Netherlands] Researchers’ Day of the Committee for the History of the Jews in the Netherlands of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, 10 December 2004)
  • “Dutch National Identity and Jewish International Solidarity: An Impossible Combination? Dutch Jewry and the Significance of the Damascus Affair (1840)”, The Tenth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands, The Dutch Intersection – The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 24 November 2004)
  • “’Hollandse middelmaat’ in a Jewish Context, Dutch Jewish Elite and its Policy of the Middle Way in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century”, Conference Juste Milieu, the Quest for a Middle Way between Revolution and Tradition, Utrecht University (Utrecht, 12 November 2004)
  • “Geschichte, Ideologie und Politik: Bendit ben Ayzek Wing und seine Amsterdamer Chronik Lezikorn (1795-1812)”, VII. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, 4 October 2004)
  • “Ongoing History, the Successor Tradition in Early Modern Jewish Historiography”, EAJS Colloquium on Epigonism and the Dynamics of Jewish Culture, Yarnton Manor (Oxford, 7 July 2004)
  • “Napoleon’s Legacy, National Government and Jewish Community in Western Europe”, Annual Conference Simon-Dubnow-Institut (Leipzig, 23 May 2004)
  • “Brabants Israël, de positie van de joden in Noord-Brabant, 17e-20e eeuw” [Brabant’s Jews, the Position of the Jews in Northern Brabant, 17th-20th centuries], University of Tilburg (Tilburg, 9 February 2004)
  • “Jiddische Historiographie im achtzehnten Jahrhundert in der Republik der Sieben Vereinigten Niederlande”, VI. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland, Universität Trier (Trier, 24 September 2003)
  • “Jiddisje historiografie in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw in de Republiek” [Yiddish Historiography in the Dutch Republic], Symposium ‘Yiddish in the Netherlands’ of the Dutch Assiociation for Jewish Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Leiden, 13 June 2003)