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Synagogue paintings as indicating a!developing conception of national redemption [PDF]

Images, 2019
. Orgad Zvi, Synagogue paintings as indicating a developing conception of national redemption. “Images” vol. XXV, no. 34. Poznań 2019. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 15–27. ISSN 1731-450X. DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.01.
Zvi Orgad
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Understanding the history of the late Roman synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee through radiocarbon dating and observations on site formation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Galilean-type synagogues are monumental, basilical structures found in northern Israel that have long been dated, mainly on stylistic grounds, to the 2nd - 3rd centuries CE.
Dennis Mizzi, Daniel Schindler, Elisabetta Boaretto, Michael Chazan, Jodi Magness   +4 more
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Jewish–Christian Interaction in Ethiopia as Reflected in Sacred Geography: Expressing Affinity with Jerusalem and the Holy Land and Comemorating the Betä Ǝsraʾel–Solomonic Wars

Religions, 2022
Affinity with the Holy Land, and especially with Jerusalem, is a common theme in the sacred geography of Abrahamic religions, expressed in prayer houses and holy sites.
Bar Kribus
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The symbolic universe of the Temple

Nordisk Judaistik, 2022
For Jews, the Jerusalem Temple is the historical focus of ritual practice and pilgrimage. After its destruction in 70 ce, synagogues gradually became important centres for community and ritual, yet the Temple remained a symbolic site of hope and longing ...
Johanna Bokedal
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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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Memory and Re-Creation: The Commemoration of Synagogues of the Islamic World in Israel

Arts, 2020
This paper aims to present several manners in which synagogues of the Islamic world—usually the more prominent and significant ones, and whose communities were uprooted following the establishment of the state of Israel—are commemorated today in Israel ...
Reuven Gafni
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Lithuanian Synagogues: From the First Descriptions to Systematic Research

Arts, 2020
The article presents an analysis of the development stages of synagogue research methodology in Lithuania during the four major historical periods of the country—Lithuania in the Russian Empire (1795–1918), Vilnius Region in the interwar period and the ...
Vilma Gradinskaite
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The zodiac: Renaissance of the astrological symbol in Eastern European wooden synagogues from the 17th and 18th centuries

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
The article presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the complex relationship between intangible elements of culture that led to the presentation of the zodiac in Jewish folk art and architecture.
Tomasz Eugeniusz Malec
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“Jewish Building” in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic after the Holocaust. Possibilities, Limits, Spaces

Arts, 2020
As early as the first months after the Second World War had ended, newly founded Jewish communities were beginning to form in Germany. These communities were established further in the years to follow, in the course of which new synagogues and community ...
Alexandra Klei
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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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