Jewish Religious Architecture
From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism
Published on 1. November 2019
Book
Hardback
398 pages
978-90-04-37008-1 (ISBN)
Description
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, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together here to present this extraordinary architectural tradition. The multidisciplinary approach employed in Jewish Religious Architecture reveals deep continuities over time, together with the distinctly local- sometimes in surprising ways.
Reviews / Votes
"(...) this book of essays fills a needed gap in Jewish art and material culture. It is the first that provides an expansive overlook of Jewish architecture from biblical times to our days, attempting to include side by side known and well-studied monuments with lesser-known chapters of the long history and vast geography of the Jewish experience."- Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in: Review of Biblical Literature 08/2021.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-37008-1 (9789004370081)
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Person
Steven Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, director of the YU Center for Israel Studies and of the Arch of Titus Project. A cultural historian of ancient Judaism, Fine is a founding editor of Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture.
Content
Preface
List of Figure
?Introduction
?Steven Fine
1 ?The Biblical Tabernacle: From Sinai to Jerusalem
?Carol Meyers
2 ?The Temple of Jerusalem in Biblical Israel
?Victor Avigdor Hurowitz???
3 ?The Second Temple of Jerusalem: Center of the Jewish Universe
?Joseph L. Angel
4 ?Herod's Temple: An Ornament to the Empire
?Peter Schertz and Steven Fine
5 ?Synagogues in the Greco-Roman World
?Steven Fine
6 ?The Ancient Synagogues of Asia Minor and Greece
?Mark Wilson
7 ?Synagogues in the Islamic World
?Joshua Holo
8 ?Synagogues of Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages
?Vivian B. Mann
9?Western Ashkenazi Synagogues in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
?Ena Giurescu Heller
10 ?Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period
?Batsheva Goldman-Ida
11 ?Christian Perceptions of Jewish Sacred Architecture in Early Modern Europe
?Yaacov Deutsch
12 ?Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese Diaspora
?Ronnie Perelis
13 ?Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Ottoman Empire
?Reuven Gafni
14 ?Synagogues in India and Myanmar
?Jay A. Waronker
15 ?Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present
?Samuel D. Gruber
16 ?Reimagining the Synagogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
?Jess Olson
17 ?Modern Synagogue Architecture
?Samuel D. Gruber
18 ?The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary Hasidism
?Maya Balakirsky Katz
19 ?The Sukkah as Sacred Architecture
?Shulamit Laderman
20 ?The Eruv: From the Talmud to Contemporary Art
?Margaret Olin
List of Figure
?Introduction
?Steven Fine
1 ?The Biblical Tabernacle: From Sinai to Jerusalem
?Carol Meyers
2 ?The Temple of Jerusalem in Biblical Israel
?Victor Avigdor Hurowitz???
3 ?The Second Temple of Jerusalem: Center of the Jewish Universe
?Joseph L. Angel
4 ?Herod's Temple: An Ornament to the Empire
?Peter Schertz and Steven Fine
5 ?Synagogues in the Greco-Roman World
?Steven Fine
6 ?The Ancient Synagogues of Asia Minor and Greece
?Mark Wilson
7 ?Synagogues in the Islamic World
?Joshua Holo
8 ?Synagogues of Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages
?Vivian B. Mann
9?Western Ashkenazi Synagogues in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
?Ena Giurescu Heller
10 ?Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period
?Batsheva Goldman-Ida
11 ?Christian Perceptions of Jewish Sacred Architecture in Early Modern Europe
?Yaacov Deutsch
12 ?Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese Diaspora
?Ronnie Perelis
13 ?Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Ottoman Empire
?Reuven Gafni
14 ?Synagogues in India and Myanmar
?Jay A. Waronker
15 ?Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present
?Samuel D. Gruber
16 ?Reimagining the Synagogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
?Jess Olson
17 ?Modern Synagogue Architecture
?Samuel D. Gruber
18 ?The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary Hasidism
?Maya Balakirsky Katz
19 ?The Sukkah as Sacred Architecture
?Shulamit Laderman
20 ?The Eruv: From the Talmud to Contemporary Art
?Margaret Olin