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In Search of Salonika’s Lost Synagogues. An Open Question Concerning Intangible Heritage

open access: yesQuest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2014
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

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2003
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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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 east and other historical reminiscences in the architectural concept of the Synagogue of Trieste

open access: yesАрхитектон
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]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2019
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]

open access: yes, 2010
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

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

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
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The Camp of Reason: Spinoza's Ethics as Affirmative Excess

open access: yesNursing Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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