| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 382 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Jews, Judaism, and the arts ; volume 1
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| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Biblical tabernacle: from Sinai to Jerusalem / Carol Meyers -- The temple of Jerusalem in Biblical Israel / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- The second temple of Jerusalem: center of the Jewish universe / Joseph L. Angel -- Herod's temple: an ornament to the empire / Peter Schertz and Steven Fine -- Synagogues in the Greco-Roman world / Steven Fine -- The ancient synogogues of Asia Minor and Greece / Mark Wilson -- Synagogues under Islam in the Middle Ages / Joshua Holo -- Synagogues of Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages / Vivian B. Mann -- Western Ashkenazi synagogues in medieval and early modern Europe / Ena Giurescu Heller -- Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the early modern period / Batsheva Goldman-Ida -- Christian perceptions of Jewish sacred architecture in early modern Europe / Yaacov Deutsch -- Jewish sacred architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora / Ronnie Perelis -- Jewish sacred architecture in the Ottoman Empire / Reuven Gafni -- Synagogues in India and Myanmar / Jay A. Waronker -- Italian synagogues from 1492 to the present / Samuel D. Gruber -- Reimagining the synagogue in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Jess Olson -- Modern synagogue architecture / Samuel D. Gruber -- The sacred architecture of contemporary Hasidism / Maya Balakirsky Katz -- The Sukkah as sacred architecture / Shulamit Laderman -- The Eruv: from the Talmud to contemporary art / Margaret Olin |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Synagogue architecture.
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Synagogue architecture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fine, Steven, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jewish religious architecture. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004370081 (DLC) 2019017862 (OCoLC)1089546903 |
| ISBN |
9789004370098 electronic book |
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9004370099 electronic book |
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9789004370081 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9004370080 hardcover alkaline paper |
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