Jewish religious heritage in the landscape of conflict. Relicts of military operations
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2020-09-23

The landscape of conflict is a construct that currently attracts attention in the landscape studies. Directing the analyses mainly within the framework of contemporary archaeology, it is one of the keys in reading the spatial history – the landscape memory. In the speech I will present the proposal of the expansion of the landscape of conflict idea in the discourse of Jewish material religious heritage within the framework of integrated geographic-historical and archaeological studies of heritage. As an example of this type of analyses, the study was prepared for the se-lected elements of the landscape of conflict (e.g. bullet traces) within the second largest Jewish necropolis in Europe – the New Jewish Cemetery in Łódź. The research was conducted using the methods of non-invasive area documentation and performing the analysis of teledetection data (including clouds of points). On this basis, also the spatial models of the material heritage were constructed, constituting the historical palimpsests.


Anna Magdalena Majewska