Jewish religious architecture : : from biblical Israel to modern Judaism /

Jewish religious architecture : : from biblical Israel to modern Judaism / / edited by Steven Fine.

Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit. This volume stretches from the biblical Tabernacle to Roman Jerusalem, synagogues spanning two millenia and on to contemporary Judaism. Social historians,...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Jews, Judaism, and the Arts; volume1
TeilnehmendeR:
Fine, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Jews, Judaism, and the Arts; volume1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 382 pages).
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Introduction / Steven Fine
  • The Biblical Tabernacle: from Sinai to Jerusalem / Carol Meyers
  • The Temple of Jerusalem in Biblical Israel / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz ל״ז
  • The Second Temple of Jerusalem: Center of the Jewish Universe / Joseph L. Angel
  • Herod’s Temple: an Ornament to the Empire / Peter Schertz and Steven Fine
  • Synagogues in the Greco-Roman World / Steven Fine
  • The Ancient Synagogues of Asia Minor and Greece / Mark Wilson
  • Synagogues Under Islam in the Middle Ages / Joshua Holo
  • Synagogues of Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages / Vivian B. Mann ל״ז
  • Western Ashkenazi Synagogues in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Ena Giurescu Heller
  • Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period / Batsheva Goldman-Ida
  • Christian Perceptions of Jewish Sacred Architecture in Early Modern Europe / Yaacov Deutsch
  • Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese Diaspora / Ronnie Perelis
  • Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Ottoman Empire / Reuven Gafni
  • Synagogues in India and Myanmar / Jay A. Waronker
  • Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present / Samuel D. Gruber
  • Reimagining the Synagogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Jess Olson
  • Modern Synagogue Architecture / Samuel D. Gruber
  • The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary Hasidism / Maya Balakirsky Katz
  • The Sukkah as Sacred Architecture / Shulamit Laderman
  • The Eruv: from the Talmud to Contemporary Art / Margaret Olin
  • Back Matter
  • Index of Place Names.

Similar Items