Sietske van der Veen is a historian and postdoctoral researcher within the project ‘Jewish Urban Cultures’ led by Professor Bart Wallet, at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies of the University of Amsterdam, where she is involved in the development of a centre of expertise in Jewish Urban Studies. In her own project, she focuses on Jewish and non-Jewish perceptions and conservation of (current and former) Jewish sites and quarters in European cities after 1945, using Amsterdam as a case study. In May 2024, she will defend her dissertation Novel Opportunities, Perpetual Barriers: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration among the Jewish Dutch Elite, 1870-1940 at Utrecht University. She is affiliated with the European collaborative research project ‘Jewish Country Houses – Objects, Networks, People’.