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In Search of Salonika’s Lost Synagogues. An Open Question Concerning Intangible Heritage
Until 1944 Salonika was also known as the Jerusalem of the Balkans for its predominantly Jewish population. In August 1917 however, late Ottoman Salonika was ravaged by a great fire which destroyed most of its oldest synagogues.
Cristina Pallini +1 more
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Sceny męczeństwa i ocalenia w późnoantycznej sztuce synagogalnej
The aim the article „The Scenes of Martyrdom and Salvation in Late Antique Synagogue Art" is presentation of all iconographical examples of these scenes appearing in Jewish art of late Antiquity. There are two types of them: one is showing the sacrifice
Paweł Szkołut
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Abstract Understanding community resilience to disasters is fundamentally important in a world characterized by increasing political and environmental instability. The Social Identity Model of Collective Resilience has examined how the shared identity that emerges among neighbourhood residents affected by disasters can facilitate and coordinate ...
Helen Hart +2 more
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The article is dedicated to the Trieste Synagogue (1906-1912) as an example of Italian synagogue architecture of the Risorgimento (1870-1910) and pan–European Jewish emancipation period.
Kolotygina Maria V.
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Modern Genizot: “Sacred Trash” Reconsidered [PDF]
For many years, the Jewish Museum in Prague has been documenting and researching a large collection of genizah finds from Bohemia and Moravia. This collection contains once-used Jewish ritual objects of various age (16th–19th century), especially texts
Lenka Uličná
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Layers of powers: societies and institutions in Europe [PDF]
Historians and social scientists have offered many and varied definitions of the term “community”. This chapter focuses on specific examples of face-to-face or local communities in order to test the possibilities and limits of the two major analytical ...
Amelang, J. +4 more
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
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Jewish Popular Music in Galicia: Karol Rathaus’ Recollections of Chune Wolfsthal
Eminent Polish composer Karol Rathaus (1895–1954) left behind an essay dedicated to his uncle Chune Wolfsthal (1851–1924). In this text, Rathaus recalls his childhood and adolescent years in (Austria-Hungary’s crown land of ) Galicia.
Guzy-Pasiak Jolanta
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The Camp of Reason: Spinoza's Ethics as Affirmative Excess
ABSTRACT Perhaps Spinoza's Ethics is the most austere text in Western philosophy: axioms, definitions, propositions, demonstrations, arranged with the composure of a Euclidean proof. Yet readers who persist report something closer to exhilaration than to the satisfaction of verification. This paper asks why.
Jamie Brian Smith
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The implications of historical and contemporary anti-Semitism in Glasgow and Scotland for Global Citizenship = As implicações do anti-semitismo histórico e contemporâneo em Glasgow e na Escócia para a cidadania global [PDF]
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McKinney, Stephen
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