There Used to Be a Synagogue Here
Author: Frederick J. Nachman
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Published: 2013-01-15
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ISBN-13: 9780988818910
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Author: Frederick J. Nachman
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Published: 2013-01-15
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ISBN-13: 9780988818910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Soyer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780674444171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe wide variety of landsmanshaftn - from politically radical and secular to Orthodox and from fraternal order to congregation - illustrates the diversity of influences on immigrant culture. But nearly all of these societies adopted the democratic benefits and practices that were seen as the most positive aspects of American civic culture.
Author: Robert A. Packer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738551524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe disappearing history of Chicago's Jewish past can be found in the religious architecture of its stately synagogues and communal buildings. Whether modest or majestic, wood or stone, the buildings reflected their members' views on faith and their commitment to the neighborhoods where they lived in a time when individuals and the community were inseparable from their neighborhood synagogues, temples, and shuls. From Chicago's oldest Jewish congregation, Kehilath Anshe Maariv Temple (Pilgrim Baptist), to Ohave Sholom (St. Basils Greek Orthodox), to Kehilath Anshe Maariv's last independent building (Operation Push), come and explore Chicago's forgotten synagogues and communal buildings. Nearly 150 years of Chicago history unfolds in Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues as the photographs and accompanying stories tell of the synagogues' past greatness and their present and uncertain future.
Author: 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: Otho Fairfield Humphreys
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ita Heinze-Greenberg
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848222946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn America between 1946 and 1953, the German-Jewish architect Eric Mendelsohn planned seven synagogues, of which four were built, all in the Midwest. In this book, photographer Michael Palmer has recorded in exquisite detail Mendelsohn's four built synagogues in Saint Paul, Saint Louis, Cleveland, and Grand Rapids. These photographs are accompanied by an insightful contextual essay by Ita Heinze-Greenberg which reflects on Eric Mendelsohn and his Jewish identity. Mendelsohn's post-war commitment to sacred architecture was a major challenge to him, but one on which he embarked with great enthusiasm. He sought and found radically new architectural solutions for these "temples" that met functional, social, and spiritual demands. In the post-war and post-Holocaust climate, the old references had become obsolete, while the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 posed a claim for the redefinition of the Jewish diaspora in general. The duality of Jewish and American identity became more crucial than ever and the congregations were keen to express their integration into a modern America through these buildings. Hardly anyone could have been better suited for this task than Mendelsohn, as he sought to justify his decision to move from Israel and adopt the USA as his new homeland. The places he created to serve Jewish identity in America were a crowning conclusion of his career. They became the benchmark of modern American synagogue architecture, while the design of sacred space added a new dimension in Mendelsohn's work.
Author: Peter Henisch
Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStone's inability to react to this sentence subsequently splits his "good Austrian" identity in two, giving rise to a crisis that becomes both psychological and political, personal and national.".
Author: Humphrey Prideaux
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ludmila Isurin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1934078441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book presents a broad interdisciplinary perspective on the contemporary Russian immigration to three countries: the United States, Germany, and Israel. The changes and transformations in three domains, i.e., cultural perception, self-identification, and attitudes to first language maintenance, are explored through the Acculturation Framework that allows bringing together these essential aspects of immigration. A separate look at Jewish and Russian ethnic groups within the so-called "Russian" immigration as well as its interdisciplinary nature sets this book apart from other studies on recent immigration from the former USSR.
Author: William Smith
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 800
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