Dr. Sietske van der Veen is a historian of Jewish history. Her research interests include Jewish places and spaces, Jewish elites, and Jewish belonging in the modern period. She is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. She is the review editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies, an affiliated researcher to the collaborative European research project Jewish Country Houses, University of Oxford, and secretary of the board of the Dutch Association for Jewish Studies. Her first monograph, entitled The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940, was published with Brill in 2026.