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The Kind of Sacred the City Needs. A Teaching Experience of Architectural Design
In_Bo, 2022 The essay is a report of a didactic experience, held in an Architectural Design Studio of an Italian school of architecture. For this experience, the focus of the studio were sacred halls.
Federica Visconti
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Lithuanian Synagogues: From the First Descriptions to Systematic Research
Arts, 2020 The article presents an analysis of the development stages of synagogue research methodology in Lithuania during the four major historical periods of the country—Lithuania in the Russian Empire (1795–1918), Vilnius Region in the interwar period and the ...
Vilma Gradinskaite
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, 2010 Touro Synagogue, in Newport, RI, is the oldest Jewish temple in uninterrupted use in the US. Every year the temple rereads the letter sent by George Washington to the congregation pledging the new government to the protection of the freedom of religion ...
Haas, William Paul
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and UrbanismThe deep emotion we feel when entering any timeless place of worship—a synagogue, a church, or a Buddhist temple—stems from the patterns of space that generated them.
Nili Portugali
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Les mosquées en Algérie ou l’espace reconquis : l’exemple d’Oran
L’Année du Maghreb, 2010 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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“One Is a Frontier”: Settler Migration as Transmogrification
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the trajectories and framing strategies of American Jewish migrants to Palestine–Israel. Drawing on original in‐depth interviews with immigrants who migrated between 1976 and 2021, alongside interviews with and observations of an “aliyah” agency, it examines meaning‐making around spatial relocation in relation to the ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
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Historical, non-existing synagogue in Przeworsk
Technical Transactions, 2021 The history of southeastern Poland is inseparably linked with the Jewish community that settled mostly in larger cities located near significant trade routes.
Mikrut-Kusy Agata
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A study of the spatial characteristics of the Jews in London 1695 & 1895 [PDF]
, 1994 This paper suggests that the settlement pattern of Jews in London is in a distinct cluster, but contradicts the accepted belief about the nature of the 'ghetto'; finding that the traditional conception of the 'ghetto', as an enclosed, inward-looking ...
Vaughan, Laura
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