The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in collaboration with the Department of Jewish Art at the Bar Ilan University, is organizing the international colloquium Tombstones Tell Stories: Sepulchral Art in Romania. The event will take place on April 29, 2014, at 16:00, in Beck Auditorium, Building 410 - Judaic Studies, Bar Ilan University. During the colloquium, Dr. Paula Popoiu (Romania) will deliver the lecture entitled "Signs and funeral rituals", in English, and Dr. Ilia Rodov will present the lecture "Jewish Tombstones in Romanian Moldavia". The colloquium is open to the Bar Ilan University students, as well as to the general public, and proposes a comparative discussion on the themes of tombstone paintings and carvings and special funeral customs of Romanians and Jews.
Free entrance.
Program:
Moderator: Dr. Gina Pană, director RCI Tel AvivDr. Paula Popoiu, General Director of the "Dimitrie Gusti " National Village Museum, Bucharest: Signs and funeral rituals Dr. Ilia Rodov, Head of the Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University: Jewish Tombstones in Romanian Moldavia
Opening of the exhibition "Pro Memoria" by Marilena Murariu at the Leiber Gallery, Building 410
Paula Popoiu holds a PhD in History Studies and has been the General Director of the "Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum in Bucharest since 2005. Between 1991-2003, she has participated at numerous training courses and was awarded various scholarships in the fields of Museum Studies and Cultural Patrimony in France and Belgium. She is also a member in the National Commission for the Preservation of the Cultural Patrimony and the president of the Association of Outdoor Museums in Romania.
Ilia Rodov is the Head of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, editor of the Ars Judaica Journal, Senior Researcher at the Israel Academy of Sciences. He published numerous research projects and academic publications on European synagogues and Jewish art.
