Sietske Van Der Veen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4017772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sietske Van Der Veen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sietske |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Veen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER VEEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-5221-1328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Those people were too attached to their homes”
This article argues that for the first approximately fifteen years after World War II, the so-called Jewish district of Amsterdam in the eastern part of the city centre should be interpreted both as a site of trauma and a site of transition. Approaching the neighbourhood as a liminal space demonstrates how next to the rupture of the Holocaust and relentless urban renewal planned and implemented by the municipality, Jews lived and gave meaning to …
Renegotiating Jewish sites and quarters
After World War II, all over Europe many places which had born a distinctively Jewish character but to which no Jews returned, from buildings and streets to entire neighbourhoods were either repurposed, torn down in urban renewal schemes, or disappeared from the map entirely. Meanwhile, survivors of the Holocaust asked themselves whether there was any future for Jews in European cities at all, or whether rebuilding a life would only be possible i…
Celebrating Twenty Years of EJJS
Celebrating Twenty Years of ejjsSeveral years ago, in 2019, we celebrated 200 years of Jewish studies.This related back to the founding of the Verein für die Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden in Berlin in 1819.In comparison, it might sound futile to celebrate twenty years of the ejjs.However, while the Verein only existed for five years, its influence lasts up until today, and also the ejjs might be considered an offspring of the creative start i…
I Never Lived More Beautifully
From the late nineteenth century until the German occupation of the Netherlands, Jewish members of the Dutch financial, political, and cultural elites increasingly established or settled in homes in suburban and rural areas. In this article I demonstrate, on the one hand, how Dutch Jewish country house owners resembled their counterparts in other European countries regarding their primary settlement near main cities, their familial and their arti…
Between Community and Collaboration
‘Our work was in the service of the suffering of mankind’
('Easternfront Ambulance'), a controversial though currently relatively unknown field hospital for the eastern front. In doing so, they supported the German war effort. This case study elaborates on the motives of these women to make a choice that was ultimately determined as 'wrong', by emphasising their unique gender role of nurse in the public sphere. By providing an insight into a relatively small group of 'wrong' women, this article aims to …
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‘Our work was in the service of the suffering of mankind’
('Easternfront Ambulance'), a controversial though currently relatively unknown field hospital for the eastern front. In doing so, they supported the German war effort. This case study elaborates on the motives of these women to make a choice that was ultimately determined as 'wrong', by emphasising their unique gender role of nurse in the public sphere. By providing an insight into a relatively small group of 'wrong' women, this article aims to …
Between Community and Collaboration
I Never Lived More Beautifully
From the late nineteenth century until the German occupation of the Netherlands, Jewish members of the Dutch financial, political, and cultural elites increasingly established or settled in homes in suburban and rural areas. In this article I demonstrate, on the one hand, how Dutch Jewish country house owners resembled their counterparts in other European countries regarding their primary settlement near main cities, their familial and their arti…
“Those people were too attached to their homes”
This article argues that for the first approximately fifteen years after World War II, the so-called Jewish district of Amsterdam in the eastern part of the city centre should be interpreted both as a site of trauma and a site of transition. Approaching the neighbourhood as a liminal space demonstrates how next to the rupture of the Holocaust and relentless urban renewal planned and implemented by the municipality, Jews lived and gave meaning to …
Renegotiating Jewish sites and quarters
After World War II, all over Europe many places which had born a distinctively Jewish character but to which no Jews returned, from buildings and streets to entire neighbourhoods were either repurposed, torn down in urban renewal schemes, or disappeared from the map entirely. Meanwhile, survivors of the Holocaust asked themselves whether there was any future for Jews in European cities at all, or whether rebuilding a life would only be possible i…
Celebrating Twenty Years of EJJS
Celebrating Twenty Years of ejjsSeveral years ago, in 2019, we celebrated 200 years of Jewish studies.This related back to the founding of the Verein für die Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden in Berlin in 1819.In comparison, it might sound futile to celebrate twenty years of the ejjs.However, while the Verein only existed for five years, its influence lasts up until today, and also the ejjs might be considered an offspring of the creative start i…
Judaism (5 works) · German (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (2 works) · Jewish studies (2 works) · Nazism (2 works) · Political science (2 works)