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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 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This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was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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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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Exilic Landscapes: Synagogues and Jewish Architectural Identity in 1870s Britain

ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 2018
When Jews in Florence, Italy submitted plans for a new Great Synagogue in 1872, the designs were rejected not on the usual religious or political grounds, but for stylistic reasons.
Leon Fenster
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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 Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
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Synagogue Architecture of Latvia between Archeology and Eschatology

Arts, 2019
Synagogue architecture during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century was seeking novel modes of expression, and therefore the remains of ancient synagogues that were being discovered by western archeologists
Sergey R. Kravtsov
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Improving genetic diagnosis of hereditary tumor syndromes: From expanded gene panels to functional genomics

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Genetic tumor risk syndromes (genturis) contribute substantially to the overall cancer burden and provide opportunities for early detection, prevention, and individualized treatment. Yet, many affected individuals remain undiagnosed due to restrictive testing criteria and challenges in variant interpretation.
Mayra Sauer, Morghan C. Lucas, Vitus Prokosch, Thomas Keßler, Thomas Risch, Andreas Laner, Jan Henkel, Anna Benet‐Pagès, Ariane Hallermayr, Verena Steinke‐Lange, Elke Holinski‐Feder, Barbara Klink   +11 more
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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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