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Constructing identity: Anglo-jewry and synagogue architecture

Architectural History, 2002
This 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.
S. Kadish
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Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews, and Synagogue Architecture

Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society, 2001
he Jerusalem Street synagogue is located in uptown Prague, away from the hustle and bustle of the touristyJewish Town. Still, on Saturday mornings a few stray tourists find their way to the prayer room up the unlit stairs, making sure there is a quorum. This time there is a couple from England and a young Israeli of Libyan origin. They are shown around
I. Kalmar
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Synagogue Architecture in the Recent Past and Present

, 2008
Frank 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
R. Hollenstein
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Modern Synagogue Architecture

Jewish Religious Architecture, 2019
S. Gruber
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Sacred Brutalism: the Church of Annunciation in Nazareth and the Central Synagogue in Nazareth Illit

Journal of Architecture
In attending to the history of both the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth and the Central Synagogue in Nazareth Illit in the context of the region’s history, the following discussion explores the architectural principles that gave rise to these two ...
Eran Neuman
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The impact of choir and organ on synagogue architecture

After the Text, 2021
Fani Gargova
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INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL EDITION HANDBOOK OF SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTURE

, 2020
M. Chiat
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Gottfried Semper and German Synagogue Architecture

The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1977
H. Rosenau
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Building the Great Synagogue of Pest: Moorish Revival Architecture and the European-Ottoman Alliance in the Crimean War

The Jewish quarterly review, 2021
:In the aftermath of the 1848 revolutions, the search for a symbolic Jewish presence in the urban centers of Central Europe led to the emergence of a monumental synagogue architecture in the Moorish revival style.
C. Wilke
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Tehran synagogues: the socio-cultural topographies and architectural typologies

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2021
A look at the past shows that Jews lived more or less in several neighbourhoods in Iran, where along with adhering to the communal life, their synagogues and religious sites existed. At the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Oudlajan neighbourhood in Tehran, due to their growing population, there were about twelve synagogues belonging to the ...
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