Sietske van der Veen is a historian of Jewish history. Her research interests include Jewish places and spaces, Jewish elites, and Jewish belonging in the modern period. She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. Within the project ‘Jewish Urban Cultures’ she is, together with project leader Professor Bart Wallet, involved in the development of a centre of expertise in Jewish Urban Studies through numerous projects. She teaches within the BA Hebrew Language and Culture and the MA Jewish Studies, as well as within the wider Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Cultures. In her current research she focuses on (current and former) Jewish sites and quarters in Amsterdam after 1945. Additionally, she is affiliated with the European collaborative research project ‘Jewish Country Houses – Objects, Networks, People’ led by Professor Abigail Green at the University of Oxford.