A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ
Author: Emil Schürer
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 352
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Author: Emil Schürer
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee I. Levine
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 0300074751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation The synagogue was one of the most central and revolutionary institutions of ancient Judaism leaving an indelible mark on Christianity and Islam as well. This commanding book provides an in-depth and comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of late antiquity. Drawing exhaustively on archeological evidence and on such literary sources as rabbinic material, the New Testament, Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, and Christian and pagan works, Lee Levine traces the development of the synagogue from what was essentially a communal institution to one which came to embody a distinctively religious profile. Exploring its history in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods in both Palestine and the Diaspora, he describes the synagogue's basic features: its physical remains; its role in the community; its leadership; the roles of rabbis, Patriarchs, women, and priests in its operation; its liturgy; and its art. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic of a dynamic institution that succeeded in integrating patterns of social and religious behavior from the contemporary non-Jewish society while maintaining a distinctively Jewish character.
Author: Hans-Jürgen Derda
Publisher: Michael Imhof
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783865688347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth installment in the Kleine Schriften der Bet Tfila series, this volume explores the Jewish reform movement in 19th-century Germany. The historical, religious, cultural, and architectural contexts of this time of Jewish enlightenment are examined in this comprehensive reference.
Author: Lajos Kalmár
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Saskia Coenen Snyder
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0674070577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers of Jewish life—London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin—Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a marker of acculturation but not of full acceptance. Whether modest or spectacular, these new edifices most often revealed the limits of European Jewish integration. Debates over building initiatives provide Coenen Snyder with a vehicle for gauging how Jews approached questions of self-representation in predominantly Christian societies and how public manifestations of their identity were received. Synagogues fused the fundamentals of religion with the prevailing cultural codes in particular locales and served as aesthetic barometers for European Jewry’s degree of modernization. Coenen Snyder finds that the dialogues surrounding synagogue construction varied significantly according to city. While the larger story is one of increasing self-agency in the public life of European Jews, it also highlights this agency’s limitations, precisely in those places where Jews were thought to be most acculturated, namely in France and Germany. Building a Public Judaism grants the peculiarities of place greater authority than they have been given in shaping the European Jewish experience. At the same time, its place-specific description of tensions over religious tolerance continues to echo in debates about the public presence of religious minorities in contemporary Europe.
Author: Carl Hermann Kraeling
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780870683312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carol Herselle Krinsky
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780486290782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuperbly illustrated views from antiquity to modern times accompany concise profiles of synagogues across the continent, including Cracow's Old Synagogue, the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, and Vienna's Tempelgasse. 253 illustrations.
Author: George Alexander Kohut
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 664
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Howse
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1489626239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilt in the mid-1800s, the Great Synagogue of Budapest has remained a constant through difficult times. As many as 20,000 Jewish people sought refuge in the synagogue during the Holocaust of World War II. However, the synagogue was also occupied by Nazi forces for part of the war. Explore the facility, history, people, and beliefs behind the building in Great Synagogue of Budapest, a Houses of Faith book.
Author: Anders Runesson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9004161163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume gathers for the first time all of the primary source material on the early synagogues up through the Second Century C. E. Each entry contains bibliographic citations and interpretative comments. An Introduction frames the current state of synagogue research, while extensive indices allow for easy location of specific allusions.