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The Role of Visual, Semantic and Sensual Aspects of Architecture in Perpetuating the Memory of the Past – the New Synagogue in Mainz

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Philosophica, 2019
Thanks to its expressive form, the New Synagogue and the Jewish Community Centre in Mainz erected in 2008–2010 is a powerful sign in the urban space, creating a sort of aesthetic energy of the place.
Julia Sowińska-Heim
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Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia [PDF]

, 2005
Die Arbeit untersucht die Architektur der Synagogen in der Slowakei. Hauptziel hierbei war es, alle vorhandenen Gebaude im Land zu dokumentieren und das Wissen uber die zerstorten Synagogen mit Hilfe historischer Bilder und anderer Archivmaterialien in uberarbeiteter Form wieder zuganglich zu machen.
openaire   +2 more sources

Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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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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Welcome Home: A Shared Identity Recognition in the Time of Crisis

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does a society sustain collective identity when formal citizenship and cultural recognition persistently diverge? Drawing on qualitative interviews with native‐born sabras and Russian‐speaking immigrants in Israel, this article develops a recognition‐gap framework specifying the mechanisms through which national belonging is produced ...
Mania Borzenko
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A virtuous journey between the synagogues of the ghetto and synagogues of emancipation: the rediscovery of Venetian Judaism

In_Bo, 2017
The celebrations related to the 500 years of the institution of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016) represent a first hint for thought on the Venetian Jewish community and how much is left.
Valeria Rainoldi
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 619-635, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
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The Synagogue in Trenčín and Its Authors A Transformation of Architectural Traditions through Modernity

Architektúra & Urbanizmus
The synagogue in Trenčín is one of the most important examples of synagogue or sacral architecture of the early 20th century in Slovakia, but also of the architecture of this period in the wider Central European region.
Maroš Semančík
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Policy Transfer and Lesson‐Drawing in Online Harms Regulation: From NetzDG to Online Safety

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Since Germany's passage of the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) in 2017, a growing number of countries have introduced online harms legislation requiring internet intermediaries to remove or address harmful or illegal content. Arguments about Germany's influence on other jurisdictions have relied on an undertheorized notion of policy transfer.
Geoffrey Cameron, Chris Tenove, Caleb Duffield   +2 more
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