Jewish religious architecture : from biblical Israel to modern Judaism /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 382 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:	English
Series:	Jews, Judaism, and the arts ; volume 1
Subject:	Synagogue architecture. Synagogue architecture.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12871753

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Other authors / contributors:	Fine, Steven, editor.
ISBN:	9789004370098 9004370099 9789004370081 9004370080
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2020).
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
Other form:	Print version: Jewish religious architecture. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004370081

Table of 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

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