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Granadan reflections [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores a practice of historical reflection grounded in the city of Granada’s aesthetic and architectural heritage. From the publication of Washington Irving’s Tales of Alhambra, in 1823, up through today, Granada has been a highly celebrated
Hirschkind, C
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The Cosmic Symbolism of the Church and the Mystical Liturgy of the Logos in Inauguration Anthems of Hagia Sophia and the Mystagogia of Maximus the Confessor

Eikón Imago, 2022
This article is devoted to the search of the traces of the Jewish conception of the cosmological and mystical celestial tabernacle and the temple in the architectural symbolism of the Christian church represented in the Syriac sugitha and the Greek ...
Irina Dmitrievna Kolbutova
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THE JEWISH PAST OF EASTERN EUROPE [PDF]

CES Working Papers, 2015
In Transylvania, buildings with a high quality architecture have been constructed along the centuries. The purpose of the present study is to document the built heritage of Transylvania, particularly the Jewish buildings and especially those that had ...
Lilla Etelka DOHI TREPSZKER
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The Torah Ark of Arthur Szyk

Arts, 2020
This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was dedicated in 1949.
Susan Nashman Fraiman
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Hiding Places: The Architecture of Survival

Miejsce, 2020
“Hiding Places. The Architecture of Survival” is an article that summarizes the preliminary stage of my artistic studies on the architecture of hiding places.
Natalia Romik
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Identifying high-impact variants and genes in exomes of Ashkenazi Jewish inflammatory bowel disease patients

Nature Communications, 2023
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic digestive tract inflammatory conditions whose genetic etiology is still poorly understood. The incidence of IBD is particularly high among Ashkenazi Jews.
Yiming Wu, Kyle Gettler, Meltem Ece Kars, Mamta Giri, Dalin Li, Cigdem Sevim Bayrak, Peng Zhang, Aayushee Jain, Patrick Maffucci, Ksenija Sabic, Tielman Van Vleck, Girish Nadkarni, Lee A. Denson, Harry Ostrer, Adam P. Levine, Elena R. Schiff, Anthony W. Segal, Subra Kugathasan, Peter D. Stenson, David N. Cooper, L. Philip Schumm, Scott Snapper, Mark J. Daly, Talin Haritunians, Richard H. Duerr, Mark S. Silverberg, John D. Rioux, Steven R. Brant, Dermot P. B. McGovern, Judy H. Cho, Yuval Itan   +30 more
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Narrative and the Substance of Architectural Spaces: The Design of Memorial Architecture as an Example [PDF]

Athens Journal of Architecture, 2015
The causality between function and architectural form was an orthodox factor in the process of architectural design, as well as a determinant for the discourse of spatial content in functionalist architecture, yet, by the 1950s, this doctrine of modern ...
Ching-Pin Tseng
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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The Faint Traces of the Jewish Mystical Tradition: The Kabbalah in 15–18Th-Century Architecture

Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment
This article investigates the influence of the Kabbalah on Jewish architecture and synagogal art. Due to the destruction of the Eastern European kabbalist-related architecture and the preservation of only two indisputably “kabbalist” synagogues, the ...
MALEC Tomasz Eugeniusz
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