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Spiritual Exaltation in Timeless Places of Worship: Insights from the New Maimonides Central Sephardic Synagogue, Hadera, Israel

Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism
The 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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Russia and the Birth of Right‐Wing Terrorism: Mass Politics, Antisemitism, and the Assassination of Mikhail Gertsenshtein

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
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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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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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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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Manchester stands united: Place‐based identity facilitates resilience in the aftermath of a mass emergency

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Understanding community resilience to disasters is fundamentally important in a world characterized by increasing political and environmental instability. The Social Identity Model of Collective Resilience has examined how the shared identity that emerges among neighbourhood residents affected by disasters can facilitate and coordinate ...
Helen Hart, Clifford Stevenson, Blerina Kellezi   +2 more
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Provincial Jewish communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Judaism as the forty of identity

Studia Humanitatis, 2018
The article considers the main regularities of formation and activity of Jewish communities in provincial cities of Russia. It was revealed that servicemen became the basis for the formation of religious communities of Jews.
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 166-176, April 2026.
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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The Central Synagogue of Nazareth Illit and its architectural dialogue with Nazareth’s Basilica of the Annunciation

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020
The hometown of Jesus, Nazareth, is an international center of Christian pilgrimage that has capitalized on showcasing its sacred sites. Architect Antonio Barluzzi was commissioned to design Nazareth’s modern Basilica of the Annunciation in 1954, and a ...
Naomi Simhony
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The Synagogue in Trenčín and Its Authors A Transformation of Architectural Traditions through Modernity

Architektúra & Urbanizmus
The synagogue in Trenčín is one of the most important examples of synagogue or sacral architecture of the early 20th century in Slovakia, but also of the architecture of this period in the wider Central European region.
Maroš Semančík
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