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Author: Steven Fine Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004370099 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 398
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Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.
Author: Steven Fine Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004370099 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 398
Book Description
Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.
Author: Henry Stolzman Publisher: Images Publishing ISBN: 9781864700749 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 274
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This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.
Author: Susan G. Solomon Publisher: Brandeis University Press ISBN: 161168868X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 230
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In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.
Author: Joseph Siry Publisher: ISBN: 9780226761404 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book examines the design, construction, and reception of Beth Sholom Synagogue, and its place in relation to Frank Lloyd Wright's other religious architecture.
Author: Barry L. Stiefel Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317320328 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced.
Author: Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 1474468438 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 352
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This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the architecture of synagogues responded to contextual issues and traditions, and how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues. As well as revealing how synagogues reflect the culture of the Jewish minority at macro and micro scales, from the city to the interior, the book also considers patterns of the development of synagogues in urban contexts and in connection with urban elements and monuments.
Author: Saskia Coenen Snyder Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674070577 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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Nineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers of Jewish life—London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin—Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a marker of acculturation but not of full acceptance. Whether modest or spectacular, these new edifices most often revealed the limits of European Jewish integration. Debates over building initiatives provide Coenen Snyder with a vehicle for gauging how Jews approached questions of self-representation in predominantly Christian societies and how public manifestations of their identity were received. Synagogues fused the fundamentals of religion with the prevailing cultural codes in particular locales and served as aesthetic barometers for European Jewry’s degree of modernization. Coenen Snyder finds that the dialogues surrounding synagogue construction varied significantly according to city. While the larger story is one of increasing self-agency in the public life of European Jews, it also highlights this agency’s limitations, precisely in those places where Jews were thought to be most acculturated, namely in France and Germany. Building a Public Judaism grants the peculiarities of place greater authority than they have been given in shaping the European Jewish experience. At the same time, its place-specific description of tensions over religious tolerance continues to echo in debates about the public presence of religious minorities in contemporary Europe.
Author: Carol Herselle Krinsky Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Architectural History Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 468
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The most comprehensive treatment of the subject in any language, Synagogues of Europe is a unique testament of a minority which had to temper its architectural ambitions to suit political and social circumstances, as well as an account of design and function.
Author: Katrin Kessler Publisher: ISBN: 9783731903222 Category : Architecture in literature Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume presents a wide range of articles dealing with the various aspects of Jewish architecture throughout the centuries and its interaction with literature, politics, etc. Scholars from Europe, Israel and America presented their current research on Jewish architecture at the international conference "Jewish Architecture - New Sources and Approaches" at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in April 2014. The conference marked the twentieth anniversary of the fruitful German-Israeli cooperation of the Bet Tfila - Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe.
Author: Dominique Jarrassé Publisher: Vilo Publishing ISBN: Category : Art, Jewish Languages : en Pages : 296
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Through the use of ground plans, manuscripts, etchings, paintings and photographs, this work shows how synagogues emphasize the relationship between architecture and history, and architecture and cultural identity.
Author: Steven Fine
Author: Steven Fine
Author: Henry Stolzman
Author: Susan G. Solomon
Author: Joseph Siry
Author: Barry L. Stiefel
Author: Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour
Author: Saskia Coenen Snyder
Author: Carol Herselle Krinsky
Author: Katrin Kessler
Author: Dominique Jarrassé