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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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Not So Fast

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
A. Mark Clarfield
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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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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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Strongholding the Synagogue to Stronghold the City: Urban-Religious Configurations in an Israeli Mixed-City

, 2017
This article explores the geopolitical significance of public religious institutions and the ways in which it has corresponded to changes in their urban environment.
Moriel Ram, Meirav Aharon Gutman
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Negotiating Presence: The Dynamics of Passive Representation Among Ultra‐Orthodox Women in Public Organizations

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies in representative bureaucracy have focused on whether passive representation translates into active representation. We shift this analytical lens by conceptualizing passive representation not as a static demographic condition or a preliminary stage, but as a dynamic organizational process.
Maayan Davidovitz, Rachel Gali Cinamon
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Church & Synagogue Libraries

, 1987
Bimonthly publication of the Church and Synagogue Library Association, containing news and events related to the organization and its members, reviews of books and other materials, and stories of interest to the management of congregational libraries ...
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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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What Now? Military Peace Activism in the Wake of the Vietnam War

Peace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article defines military peace activism as peace activism related to military manpower policy and military personnel, including active, reserve, potential, and former servicemembers. It argues that when the US war in Vietnam and the draft that supported it ended, antiwar activists who worked with GIs had to reframe their work, as the ...
Amy J. Rutenberg
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The Umberto Di Segni’s Synagogue In the Medina of Tripoli: Virtual Reconstruction and Restoration

Disegnare con, 2021
Umberto Di Segni, born in Tripoli in 1894 to an Italian Jewish family, and died in Natania near Tel Aviv in 1958, was one of the leading architects of the architectural renewal of Libya, especially of its capital during the colonial period.The Umberto Di
Ludovico Micara
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