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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 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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Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United Kingdom and Germany

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 749-769, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Since the late 20th century, public discourse in Muslim‐minority countries has centered around the question of how to classify Muslims. In this paper, we compare the state, academic, and self‐classification of Muslims in two countries: the United Kingdom and Germany.
Elisabeth Becker, Rachel Rinado, Jeffrey Guhin   +2 more
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Maribor Synagogue: Between Facts and Reinterpretation

Arts, 2020
Maribor Synagogue is one of the few preserved medieval synagogues in Central Europe. The renovation of the building between 1992 and 1999, undertaken by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, proved to be much more demanding ...
Janez Premk
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Maribor Synagogue Reexamined

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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Architecture as a Mode of Existence. The Hamburg Case of Rebuilding the Bornplatz Synagogue

Cultural Sociology
The filigree ground mosaic is placed at the heart of the Grindel neighbourhood in Hamburg, Germany. Tracing the footprint of the former synagogue that once stood there, proudly, it demarcates an absence.
Susanne Krasmann
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Between Yerushalayim DeLita and Jerusalem—The Memorial Inscription from the Bimah of the Great Synagogue of Vilna

Arts, 2020
During excavations of the bimah (the platform for reading the Torah) of the 17th-century Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania), an important memorial inscription was exposed.
Jon Seligman
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Glass in Late Antiquity in the Near East [PDF]

, 2007
© 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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A study of the spatial characteristics of the Jews in London 1695 & 1895 [PDF]

, 1994
This paper suggests that the settlement pattern of Jews in London is in a distinct cluster, but contradicts the accepted belief about the nature of the 'ghetto'; finding that the traditional conception of the 'ghetto', as an enclosed, inward-looking ...
Vaughan, Laura
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