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The Architecture of Gender: Women in the Eastern European Synagogue
Jewish History, 2021This article analyses the architecture of women’s sections in eastern European synagogues and argues that two profound changes took place, one in the eighteenth century and the second in the second half of the nineteenth century. The first was moving of the women’s section from an external (but not detached) annex into the main volume of the synagogue;
Vladimir Levin
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A Synagogue in Olyka: Architecture and Legends
2008This chapter examines Olyka's main synagogue, known as the Great Synagogue, reconstructing it as a virtual site of memory. At the centre of a fertile area populated by Ukrainians and ruled at different times by members of the Ruthenian/Ukrainian, Polish, and Lithuanian nobility, it attracted a community of Jews, who settled there and plied their ...
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IV Synagogue Architecture and Ornamentation
2013Avi-Yonah proposed three types of synagogue plans based on chronology: (1) the earliest - the Galilean and Golan type, dating from the second to the third centuries CE, with an ornamental facade and a portable wooden construction serving as the Torah Shrine; (2) the transitional type, from the fourth and fifth centuries CE, sometimes called 'broadhouse'
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Synagogue Architecture in the Recent Past and Present
2008Frank Lloyd Wright’s spectacular design for the Beth Sholom Temple in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania (1957), whose form resembles a glazed ark, heralded a greater awareness of modern synagogue architecture outside of Jewish circles. However, with the exception of its sculptural form, a late echo of the crystalline expressionism of Bruno Taut, it offered few
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