On Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Professor Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University) delivered a Keynote Lecture at the Leiden Jewish Studies Network Conference “Care and the Jewish Experience".

Conference, 16 September 2025

Speakers and respondents included many colleagues and former students from Leiden and The Netherlands as well as invited guests Mr. Konstanty Gebert, Professor Robin Judd, Professor Sarah Ifft-Decker, Professor Mary Fraser Kirsh and Dr. Eyal Levinson.

The event was generously supported by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network, the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, the Austria Centre Leiden and the European Research Council Starting Grant “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in Central and Eastern Europe, 1905-2004.”

For the complete programme, see the conference webpage.