The 17^th Lavy colloquium took place on May 6^th and 7^th 2024 at the Smokler Center for Jewish Life across the street from the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. The two-day international conference featured experts in ancient and modern monuments. The many topics addressed in the lectures included Jewish burials, museums, ancient magical objects, the temples in Jerusalem, synagogues around the world, and literature from the Bible to Yiddish Holocaust commemorative texts.