B'nai Amoona for All Generations
Author: Rosalind Mael Bronsen
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
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In the Spirit of Our Age
Author: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781883982324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text celebrates the B'Nai Amoona Synagogue, a landmark of the city of St Louis, designed by the architect Eric Mendelsohn. The synagogue currently houses the Center of Contemporary Arts (COCA).
Zion in the Valley: 1807-1907
Author: Walter Ehrlich
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780826210982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the St. Louis Jewish community in the years between 1807 and 1907, discussing the internal, socioreligious growth of the group, as well as the individual and collective interaction of the Jews with the non-Jewish population; and examining their role in the development of the city.
Zion in the Valley
Author: Walter Ehrlich
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 0826262643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture
Author: Anat Geva
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 667
ISBN-13: 1351665332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing the envelope in the design of houses of worship. Modern architects embraced the challenges of creating sacred spaces that incorporated liturgical changes, evolving congregations, modern architecture, and innovations in building technology. The book describes the unique context and design aspects of the departure from historicism, and the renewal of heritage and traditions with ground-breaking structural features, deliberate optical effects and modern aesthetics. The contributions, from a pre-eminent group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Australia, and Europe are based on original archival research, historical documents, and field visits to the buildings discussed. Investigating how the authority of the divine was communicated through new forms of architectural design, these examinations map the materiality of liturgical change and communal worship during the mid-20th century.
Women Who Would Be Rabbis
Author: Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999-10-10
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780807036495
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1998 National Jewish Book Award finalist Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the courageous and committed Jewish women who passionately defended their right to equal religious participation through rabbinical ordination.
Toleration within Judaism
Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013-05-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1837649464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Jews sometimes attempt to impose constraints on those with whom they disagree on religious matters, or relate to them as if they were not Jews at all, at other times they have recognized differences of practice and belief and developed ways of handling them. The evidence presented in this book of such toleration over the centuries has important implications for writing both the history of Judaism and the history of religions more generally.
The Rabbi’s Wife
Author: Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2007-09-01
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0814786901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought Long the object of curiosity, admiration, and gossip, rabbis' wives have rarely been viewed seriously as American Jewish religious and communal leaders. We know a great deal about the important role played by rabbis in building American Jewish life in this country, but not much about the role that their wives played. The Rabbi’s Wife redresses that imbalance by highlighting the unique contributions of rebbetzins to the development of American Jewry. Tracing the careers of rebbetzins from the beginning of the twentieth century until the present, Shuly Rubin Schwartz chronicles the evolution of the role from a few individual rabbis' wives who emerged as leaders to a cohort who worked together on behalf of American Judaism. The Rabbi’s Wife reveals the ways these women succeeded in both building crucial leadership roles for themselves and becoming an important force in shaping Jewish life in America.
A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States
Author: Norman Drachler
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 971
ISBN-13: 081434349X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education. This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education
Conservative Judaism in America
Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1988-09-16
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 031338763X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPamela Nadell's biographical dictionary and sourcebook is a landmark contribution to American, Jewish, and religious history. For the first time, a great American Jewish religious movement is portrayed with amplitude, authority, and personality. In the most revolutionary era in two millenia of Jewish history, this surely is an important volumn. Moses Rischin, Professor of History, San Francisco State University Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook is the first extensive effort to document the lives and careers of the most important leaders in Conservatism's first century and to provide a brief history of the movement and its central institutions. It includes essays on the history of the movement and on the evolution of its major institutions: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, The Rabbinical Assembly, and The United Synagogue of America. It also contains 135 biographical entries on the leading figures of Conservative Judaism, appendices, and a complete bibliography on sources of study.
