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The Camp of Reason: Spinoza's Ethics as Affirmative Excess. [PDF]
ABSTRACT 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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The Kind of Sacred the City Needs. A Teaching Experience of Architectural Design
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
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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Glass in Late Antiquity in the Near East [PDF]
© 2007 Brill The document attached has been archived with permission from the publisher. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.This paper seeks to explore some of the possible connections between three late antique strands of glass ...
O'Hea, M.
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The Portugal Synagogue: Ιn Light of Its History and Architecture
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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The Jericho Oasis Archaeological Park - 2015 Interim Report. Italian-Palestinian cooperation for protection and valorization of archaeological heritage [PDF]
In April 2015, the Italian Cooperation, Sapienza University of Rome and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities started the Project “Oasis of Jericho” aimed at the implementation of the Jericho Oasis Archaeological Park (JOAP) by means of ...
Hamdan, Iyad +3 more
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Excavations At Stobi, 1971 [PDF]
Anthropolog
Mano-Zissi, Djordje, Wiseman, James
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The 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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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
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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