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Jewish Popular Music in Galicia: Karol Rathaus’ Recollections of Chune Wolfsthal

open access: yesMusicology Today, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 656-672, June 2026.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 360-373, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and ...
Young‐Joo Lee, David P. King
wiley   +1 more source

The Faint Traces of the Jewish Mystical Tradition: The Kabbalah in 15–18Th-Century Architecture

open access: yesArchitecture, Civil Engineering, Environment
This article investigates the influence of the Kabbalah on Jewish architecture and synagogal art. Due to the destruction of the Eastern European kabbalist-related architecture and the preservation of only two indisputably “kabbalist” synagogues, the ...
MALEC Tomasz Eugeniusz
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Was a Sacred Curtain (Parokhet) Depicted on Portable Shrines in the Ancient Near East?

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The Parokhet, or sacred curtain, was an important item of cultic paraphernalia in the ancient Near East. It is known from the Sumerian and Akkadian texts, the biblical tradition, the Second Temple in Jerusalem, Greek temples, and synagogues of the Roman ...
Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Yosef Garfinkel
doaj   +1 more source

Spiritual practices for dementia care of Black persons: An integrative review

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia: Translational Research &Clinical Interventions, Volume 12, Issue 2, April/June 2026.
Abstract It is crucial to identify practices that effectively meet the unique spiritual needs of Black persons living with dementia. Currently, ≈ 7 million individuals in the United States are affected by dementia, a figure that is expected to rise alarmingly to nearly 13 million by 2050.
Peace Esther Johnson   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Manchester stands united: Place‐based identity facilitates resilience in the aftermath of a mass emergency

open access: yesBritish Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Synagogues in Palestine [PDF]

open access: yes
Dozens of ancient synagogues have been discovered around the Mediterranean, most of which date to the fourth-sixth centuries CE and are concentrated in Palestine.
Magness, Jodi
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 166-176, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Synagogues of Piedmont

open access: yes, 2008
History and architecture of the synagogues of Piedmont ...
Gruber, Samuel D.
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