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The Late Antique Synagogue in Priene: Its History, Architecture, and Context

Gephyra, 2013
The Late Antique Synagogue in Priene: Its History, Architecture, and ContextThis article discusses the history of the Late Antique synagogue at Priene, illuminated by its excavation in 2009–2011.
Mark Wilson, Nadin Burkhardt
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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
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A 19th-Century Representation of Identity: An Evaluation of the Architectural Design of the Yüksek Kaldırım Ashkenazi Synagogue (Austrian Temple) in Istanbul

Religions
This article examines the impact of 19th-century Jewish emancipation on architecture through the example of the Yüksek Kaldırım Ashkenazi Synagogue in Istanbul.
Gülferi Akın Ertek
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Reform or Consensus? Choral Synagogues in the Russian Empire

Arts, 2020
Many scholars view the choral synagogues in the Russian Empire as Reform synagogues, influenced by the German Reform movement. This article analyzes the features characteristic of Reform synagogues in central and Western Europe, and demonstrates that ...
Vladimir Levin
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“There are no secrets here”: Sex and Scandal in the Streets of Curaçao

Studia Judaica, 2023
This article challenges the assumptions about what spaces were actually private in the late early modern colonial world.
Jessica Roitman
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The Library of Rudolf Steiner: The Books in English [PDF]

, 2018
The New Age philosopher, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), was the most prolific and arguably the most influential philosopher of his era. He assembled a substantial library, of approximately 9,000 items, which has been preserved intact since his death.
Paull, John
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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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The Holocaust, the Jews of Lithuania and Blair's foreign policy [PDF]

, 2012
Holocaust Memorial Day Keynote Lecture, Northampton Synagogue, 26 February 2012.
Allwork, Larissa
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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L’Habitation tunisienne de Victor Valensi (1928). Visions d’un architecte de culture juive sur le pluralisme des modernités vernaculaires en Tunisie

Perspective, 2017
This paper investigates the architectural œuvre of the prolific Jewish-Tunisian architect, Victor Valensi (1883-1977), through the lens of his publication L’Habitation tunisienne (1928), charting the textured debates on class, ethnicity, belonging, and ...
Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi
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