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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fine, Steven, editor.

Series:

Jews, Judaism, and the Arts; volume1.

Jews, Judaism, and the Arts; volume1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synagogue architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 382 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-37009-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004370098 DOI