Sietske van der Veen is a historian of modern Jewish history. In November 2023, she joined the project ‘Jewish Urban Cultures’ led by Professor Bart Wallet at the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher. At the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies she is involved in the development of a centre of expertise in Jewish Urban Studies. In her research 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 successfully defended 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’ led by Professor Abigail Green at the University of Oxford.