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The Camp of Reason: Spinoza's Ethics as Affirmative Excess. [PDF]
Nurs PhilosABSTRACT Perhaps Spinoza's Ethics is the most austere text in Western philosophy: axioms, definitions, propositions, demonstrations, arranged with the composure of a Euclidean proof. Yet readers who persist report something closer to exhilaration than to the satisfaction of verification. This paper asks why.
Smith JB.
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Arts, 2020 This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was dedicated in 1949.
Susan Nashman Fraiman
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Arts, 2020 The construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm during the 1860s initiated Jewish communal debates on the position and public presence of Jews in the Swedish pre-emancipatory society.
Maja Hultman
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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 Kind of Sacred the City Needs. A Teaching Experience of Architectural Design
In_Bo, 2022 The essay is a report of a didactic experience, held in an Architectural Design Studio of an Italian school of architecture. For this experience, the focus of the studio were sacred halls.
Federica Visconti
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Reform or Consensus? Choral Synagogues in the Russian Empire
Arts, 2020 Many scholars view the choral synagogues in the Russian Empire as Reform synagogues, influenced by the German Reform movement. This article analyzes the features characteristic of Reform synagogues in central and Western Europe, and demonstrates that ...
Vladimir Levin
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The Portugal Synagogue: Ιn Light of Its History and Architecture
Art-Sanat, 2020 The Portugal Synagogue is one of the oldest synagogues in Izmir, built by the Portuguese Jews possibly in the 1630s, in the Ottoman Period. It is located within the Bazaar neighbourhood, one of the first places in Izmir where the Jewish community settled after the province was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Being very close to the coast and the inner
Çakmak, Şakir, Bora, Siren
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АрхитектонThe article is dedicated to the Trieste Synagogue (1906-1912) as an example of Italian synagogue architecture of the Risorgimento (1870-1910) and pan–European Jewish emancipation period.
Kolotygina Maria V.
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Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica, 2019 The Maribor Synagogue is one of the most important preserved medieval synagogues in Central Europe. Since undergoing renovation and partial reconstruction from 1992–1999, the facility has served as a cultural centre.
Janez Premk
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Staging Proto-Zionism. Jewish Quarter of Zemun, Serbia: Historical Evidence, Structure, Meaning
Arts, 2020 Zemun is an old Central European town on the right bank of the Danube River, today one of the boroughs of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. There has been a small Jewish community in Zemun dating back to the mid-18th century. Some of the Jews who lived in
Čedomila Marinković
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