Download or read book The Architecture of the European Synagogue With Illustrations Including a Map and Plans written by Rahel WISCHNITZER-BERNSTEIN and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synagogues of Europe written by Carol Herselle Krinsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly illustrated views from antiquity to modern times accompany concise profiles of synagogues across the continent, including Cracow's Old Synagogue, the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, and Vienna's Tempelgasse. 253 illustrations.
Download or read book The Architecture of the European Synagogoue written by Rachel Wischnitzer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synagogue Architecture in America written by Henry Stolzman and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.
Download or read book Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture 1450 1730 written by Barry L. Stiefel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Synagogues of Europe written by Carol Herselle Krinsky and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building a Public Judaism written by Saskia Coenen Snyder and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Architecture of the European Synagogue written by Rachel Wischnitzer and published by Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1964 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resplendent Synagogue written by Thomas C. Hubka and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas C. Hubka, an architectural historian known for his work on American vernacular architecture, immersed himself in medieval and early-modern Jewish history, religion, and culture to prepare for this remarkable study of the eighteenth-century Polish synagogue in the town of Gwozdziec, now in present Ukraine. Hubka selected the Gwozdziec Synagogue--one of the finest examples of a small-town wooden synagogue from the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth--because of the completeness of its photographic and historical records. This truly resplendent synagogue exemplified a high point in Jewish architectural art and religious painting, a tradition that was later abandoned by Eastern-European Jewish communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because the Gwozdziec Synagogue, like so many others, was destroyed by the Nazis, this book revives a spiritual community lost to history. Graced with nearly 200 historical photographs, architectural drawings, maps, diagrams, and color illustrations, Resplendent Synagogue vividly recreates the spiritual heart of a once-vibrant Jewish community. Hubka "reads" the synagogue both as a historical document and as a cultural artifact. His interpretation of its art and architecture--and its liturgy--enables him to recreate a pre-modern Jewish community seen in relation to both its internal traditions of worship and its external relations with Gentile neighbors. Hubka demonstrates that while the architectural exterior of the synagogue was largely the product of non-Jewish, regional influences, the interior design and elaborate wall-paintings signified a distinctly Jewish art form. The collaboration of Jewish and Gentile builders, craftsmen, and artists in the creation of this magnificent wooden structure attests to an eighteenth century period of relative prosperity and community well-being for the Jews of Gwozdziec. This unique exploration of a lost religious and cultural artifact breathes new life into a forgotten but fascinating aspect of eighteenth-century Polish Jewry and is certain to incite discussion and debate among modern readers.
Download or read book Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine written by David William Milson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the material evidence for synagogues and churches in the Holy Land from the age of Constantine in the fourth century CE to the Arab conquest of the eastern provinces in the seventh century CE. Whereas scholars once viewed the growth of the Byzantine empire as time of persecution, a re-evaluation of the archaeological evidence indicates that Jews prospered along with their Christian neighbours. What influence did Christian art and architecture have on ancient synagogues? In the sixth century, one-third of all known synagogues in Palestine bear features similar to early Byzantine churches: basilical layouts, mosaic floors, apses, and chancel screens. Focusing on these features sheds light on how Jewish communities met the challenges posed by the Church’s development into a major religious and political power. This book provides a critical analysis of the archaeological evidence as a basis for our better understanding of Jewish identity and community in late Antique Palestine.
Download or read book Resplendent Synagogue written by Thomas C. Hubka and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue illuminates the social, historical, and religious context of an Eastern-European Jewish community.
Download or read book Jewish Architecture in Europe written by Bezalel Narkiss and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Baselitz's pictures are juxtaposed with photographs by Benjamin Katz, his close companion, who in 1963 together with Michael Werner organized Baselitz's first solo show in the newly founded Berliner Galerie - an exhibition that caused a scandal and made the artist famous overnight.
Download or read book Resplendent Synagogue written by Thomas C. Hubka and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue. Thomas C. Hubka immersed himself in medieval and early-modern Jewish history, religion, and culture to prepare for this remarkable study of the 18th-century Polish wooden synagogue in the town of Gwoździec, now in present Ukraine"--
Download or read book Synagogues written by Dominique Jarrassé and published by Vilo Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book American Synagogues written by Samuel Gruber and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Synagogues is the first book to explore the exceptional architecture of modern American synagogues in the twentieth century, and this intriguing book relates the fascinating history of the Jewish people in America and how it is expressed in twentieth-century synagogue design. The book features all new photography of synagogues in many styles from a dozen states, many never before published in any form. The synagogues were designed by European masters, the best-known modern American architects, and by important contemporary architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Minoru Yamasaki.
Download or read book Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia written by Maroš Borský and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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