Thematic issue of European Judaism: Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts

The impulse that led to the topic of this issue was an invitation to the editor from Dr Glenn Sujo to attend the conference ‘Migration, Memory and Visual Arts: Second Generation (Jewish) Artists’ held by the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, on 7 May 2021, at which he was a keynote speaker. The topic resonated on various levels with themes explored in this journal. Following the conference I approached Dr Sujo who kindly put me in touch with the organisers of the conference, Dr Imogen Wiltshire and Dr Fransiska Louwagie. As editor I want to express my gratitude to Dr Sujo for supporting the project and I am joined in that by the guest editors Drs Wiltshire and Louwagie (now based at the Universities of Lincoln and Aberdeen, respectively). They were immediately responsive to the invitation to edit a thematic issue for the journal and were successful in securing additional financing to cover the cost of the colour reproductions that are an essential feature of this publication. I thank them for their work in curating the original conference, reframing it for this new context and for our collaboration that has led to this valuable record. Drawing on both Dr Wiltshire's expertise as an art historian of modern and contemporary art and Dr Louwagie's background in second-generation writing and memory studies, this issue brings together articles by scholars and artists on the underexplored topic of second-generation visual art practices.