Sietske van der Veen

Sietske van der Veen is a postdoctoral researcher within the project ‘Jewish Urban Cultures’ at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral research at Utrecht University and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences focused on patterns of social mobility and integration among the pre-war Jewish Dutch elite, which included an investigation of Jewish country houses in the Netherlands. Her current research project centres on the Jewish and non-Jewish perception and conservation of (former) Jewish sites and quarters in (Western) European cities after 1945, with Amsterdam as a case study. She also continues to publish work on Dutch Jewish country houses, Jewish migration, integration, and belonging in the modern period.