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Conversations about creativity and chronic illness II: Textile artists coping with long-term health problems reflect on the creative process [PDF]

, 2004
This qualitative study explored the origins of interest in textile arts among a group of women living with long-term health problems. The part that illness played in motivating engagement in creative arts was of particular concern. Twenty four women were
Reynolds, F
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A 19th-Century Representation of Identity: An Evaluation of the Architectural Design of the Yüksek Kaldırım Ashkenazi Synagogue (Austrian Temple) in Istanbul

Religions
This article examines the impact of 19th-century Jewish emancipation on architecture through the example of the Yüksek Kaldırım Ashkenazi Synagogue in Istanbul.
Gülferi Akın Ertek
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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.
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Handbook of Synagogue Architecture [PDF]

, 2018
Almost fifty years has passed since the publication of Marilyn J ...
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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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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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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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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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Congregation Beth Ahabah: Reform Judaism [PDF]

, 2015
Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez\u27s Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth ...
Ross, Hallea
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