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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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The Structure of the Magdala Synagogue – Architecture and Stratigraphy
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Verkündigung und Forschung
Architectural history acknowledges a variety of Jewish communal buildings, central among which are the synagogue and its ontological sources the Tabernacle and the Temple. The synagogue architecture of the Renaissance period steadily departed from medieval patterns, drawing instead on Renaissance, baroque, and neoclassicist forms to contextualize ...
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Architectural history acknowledges a variety of Jewish communal buildings, central among which are the synagogue and its ontological sources the Tabernacle and the Temple. The synagogue architecture of the Renaissance period steadily departed from medieval patterns, drawing instead on Renaissance, baroque, and neoclassicist forms to contextualize ...
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The Earliest Synagogue Architecture
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1934The word " suggested" should almost be capitalized. The restoration, above the height of one meter, cannot be justified in any detail, as far as our discoveries on the spot are concerned. Mr. Miiller, who drew the restoration here pictured (Fig. 14), points out that there are almost ten different ways in which it could have been done, using the known ...
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Constructing Identity: Anglo-Jewry and Synagogue Architecture
Architectural History, 2002This essay seeks to explore the relationship between Jewish and British identity in the architecture of Anglo-Jewry by reference to a small selection of architecturally important or representative synagogues in this country that are still standing and that have been recorded for the Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage.
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