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ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer +11 more
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A little more than one and a half centuries ago, far eastern provinces became a part of Russia. A short but rich biography of this area remains poorly studied both by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism.
Елена Григорьева +1 more
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Review of Leonard Barkan\u27s Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion
Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion seems to be directed at an insider community of Jews who care about Jewish history, especially those considering a trip to Germany. The book\u27s meandering look at Berlin is broader and more nuanced than
Wallach, Kerry
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Zigzag: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin
In The Meaning of Asymmetry in Jewish Art, Avigdor Poseq notes a historical tendency in Jewish art to depict Temple-related ritual objects asymmetrically, symbolizing their dislocation after the Temple’s destruction and the continued wait for the ...
Artur Kamczycki
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Les mosquées en Algérie ou l’espace reconquis : l’exemple d’Oran
The “Algerian” mosque is looking for its specificity. Its architectural features sorely highlight its architectural poverty. Algeria, however, unlike its Tunisian and Moroccan neighbors, has legislation although rather vague, relative to mosque ...
Dalila Senhadji Khiat
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
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Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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This paper examines legends on the origins (aetiologies) of places and placenames in Benjamin of Tudela’s travel account. Origin stories are prevalent in medieval travelogues, but Hebrew travel accounts employ a unique form that is embedded in placenames.
Nimrod Baratz
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HERODIAN JUDEA: GAMES, POLITICS, KINGSHIP
This article will detail the kingship of Herod the Great in Judea and his enrollment of Greco-Roman architecture and culture during his reign in the first century BCE. Herod, it seems, made a deliberate break from his Jewish kingdom for the electrifying
Cody Scott Ames
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216 Jewish Hospital of St. Louis [PDF]
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/bjc_216/1102/thumbnail ...
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