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Hall of the Oneg Shabbat and Gemilut Hasadim Society [PDF]
The interwar period was an extremely important time for the process of Jewish emancipation and integration into Serbian society, in which Belgrade's Jewish community played a leading role.
Putnik-Prica Vladana, Dautović Vuk
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Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery
Abstract Faith and faith communities play a critical role in post‐disaster recovery for at least three reasons. First, faith is a socially shared frame through which individuals understand a disaster and evaluate potential means of recovery. Second, faith is a driver or motivator of post‐disaster recovery, providing inspiration, encouragement, and ...
Virgil Henry Storr +2 more
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Abstract Effective management of future regional climate risks in interconnected multi‐sectoral systems is complicated by uncertainties in risk drivers within both human and natural systems. Comprehensive yet comprehensible targeted climate risk information exploring these uncertainties is essential for the strategic allocation of limited resources to ...
F. E. Buskop +4 more
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René Girard's Revision and Misapprehension of Psychoanalysis
ABSTRACT René Girard's theories of mimetic desire, religious sacrifice, and violence have been immensely provocative and influential. His ways of framing literary desire and conflict are fascinating, as they illustrate how desire and rivalry unleashed lead to violence and derangement.
Jerry S. Piven
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Concert halls from the beginning of the last century with such a rich ornamental programme as that of the Small Hall in the 'Vereeniging’ in Nijmegen are unknown elsewhere in the Netherlands.
W.-J. Pantus
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CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE OF JUDAISM IN SIBERIA: SYNAGOGUE OF MARIINSK
The article describes the synagogue of Mariinsk, a monument of architecture of the regional significance. The synagogue is a prominent architectural object of Judaism in West Siberia. The historical retrospective of Mariinsk development is shown, statistical data are presented on the national composition of the population in the 19–20th centuries ...
T. N. MANONINA, A. A. SAMSONOVA
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‘The non‐dormant beast’: Antisemitism in communities of Russian nationalists on Vkontakte
Abstract The article explores the specifics of Russian antisemitic discourse of recent years using the example of three nationalist communities on Vkontakte, the most popular Russian social networking site, by means of critical discourse analysis. The main strategies they employ to frame the Jews online are stereotyping Jews as ungrateful and greedy ...
Petr Oskolkov +2 more
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Reconfiguring gender, kinship, and spirituality: space‐ and place‐making in Muslim Malaysia
Abstract In the public and private spaces of Malaysia's capitalist cities, Malay women abide by a stricter Islamic dress code than they do in rural areas. Hence, in this local context, spatial public/private and ‘placial’ rural/urban order are of importance for gender identifications and practices.
Viola Thimm
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The aim of the article is to show the social context of synagogue architecture on the example of the hitherto unexplored New Synagogue in Czestochowa. The analysis is an attempt to show the relationship between the location of the monument in the urban ...
Morawska, Wiktoria
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Highlights: • The article describes the concept of a Scientific Reference Model (SRM) and its specific workflow and guidelines exemplified for a hypothetical 3D reconstruction of architectural cultural heritage.
Jan Lutteroth +2 more
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