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Author : H. A. Meek
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714843296
An engaging exploration of synagogues, their history and decoration.
Author : Rachel B. Gross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479820511
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum are invited to stand along indentations on the floor where footprints of congregants past have worn down the soft pinewood. Here, many feel a palpable connection to the history surrounding them. Beyond the Synagogue argues that nostalgic activities such as visiting the Museum at Eldridge Street or eating traditional Jewish foods should be understood as American Jewish religious practices. In making the case that these practices are not just cultural, but are actually religious, Rachel B. Gross asserts that many prominent sociologists and historians have mistakenly concluded that American Judaism is in decline, and she contends that they are looking in the wrong places for Jewish religious activity. If they looked outside of traditional institutions and practices, such as attendance at synagogue or membership in Jewish Community Centers, they would see that the embrace of nostalgia provides evidence of an alternative, under-appreciated way of being Jewish and of maintaining Jewish continuity. Tracing American Jews’ involvement in a broad array of ostensibly nonreligious activities, including conducting Jewish genealogical research, visiting Jewish historic sites, purchasing books and toys that teach Jewish nostalgia to children, and seeking out traditional Jewish foods, Gross argues that these practices illuminate how many American Jews are finding and making meaning within American Judaism today.
Author : Jordan Lee Wagner
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780765709738
In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue experience. No matter what kind of synagogue you attend, the roadmap is the same. Some synagogues may read certain prayers in English translation rather than the original Hebrew or replace some traditional prayers with newer versions, but the service will still touch on the same topics in the same order for the same reasons. If you know the structure of the traditional service, you can readily find your place in any other one. The Synagogue Survival Kit maps the complete traditional service structure and points out the changes commonly encountered in different congregations in an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by novice synagogue-goers and regular attendees, alike. Always mindful of the sophisticated, adult reader with little or no Jewish background, Jordan Lee Wagner clearly and comprehensively explains the practices, vocabulary, objects, and attitudes that one can expect to find in any synagogue.
Author : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190490270
'Who Rules the Synagogue?' explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis.
Author : Anders Runesson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015054304723
Author : Carl Hermann Kraeling
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0870683314
Author : Henry Stolzman,Daniel Stolzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1864700742
This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.
Author : Umberto Fortis
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614280521
Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Venice Ghetto, this magnificent hand-bound Ultimate Collection volume introduces readers to the beauty and historical and spiritual significance of the five principal synagogues in Venice, the most important markers of Jewish faith and culture in the Most Serene Republic. Behind the walls of the Ghetto, Venetian Jews expressed strong ties to the traditions of their forefathers in constructing these beautiful places of worship. The architecture, furnishings, and decorations blended the memory of their different countries of origin with traditions of Venetian artistic culture, bequeathing the City on the Lagoon enduring monuments of unparalleled eminence that remain sites of reverence and admiration.
Author : Jackie Mills
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781525550461
You may never have heard of a building being lifted off its foundations and moved, not once, but three times! This is the story of the Little Synagogue, the Montefiori Institute, which was originally built in 1916. It became a gathering place for Jewish pioneering ranchers and their neighbours who helped to open up Canada’s West early in the twentieth century. When the dust bowl of the Great Depression dried up the land, most of the farmers left the area, and the Little Synagogue was abandoned. It was eventually moved and turned into a small house in Hanna, Alberta. Years later, a group of Jewish Calgarians heard that the Little Synagogue still existed and decided to track it down, restore it, and donate it to Calgary’s Heritage Park. In June 2009, the fully restored Little Synagogue was opened and now attracts visitors from all over the world. This charming Canadian history story for early and middle readers is filled with archival and interpretive photographs. It’s a special part of the great Canadian historical mosaic that will engage readers of all ages.
Author : Dan Miron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498595148
This book argues that both Franz Kafka’s personality and his literary activity were perceived by himself as exemplifying the modern Jewish predicament of aspiring to modernity while being tied to a past-civilization, thus finding oneself struggling in a vacuum.
Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814775820
Chronicles the history of the Jewish synagogue in America over the course of three centuries, discussing its changing role in the American Jewish community.
Author : Lee I. Levine,Yiśrā·ēl L. Lēwîn,Professor Lee I Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300074758
Annotation 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 : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190490287
Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the century, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's leading synagogues and large sectors of American Jewish life. How did this shift occur? Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century was transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis. Zev Eleff traces the history of this revolution, culminating in the Pittsburgh rabbinical conference of 1885 and the commotion caused by it. Previous scholarship has chartered the religious history of American Judaism during this era, but Eleff reinterprets this history through the lens of religious authority. In so doing, he offers a fresh view of the story of American Judaism with the aid of never-before-mined sources and a comprehensive review of periodicals and newspapers. Eleff weaves together the significant episodes and debates that shaped American Judaism during this formative period, and places this story into the larger context of American religious history and modern Jewish history.
Author : Steven Fine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134673513
Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the Greco-Roman period. It presents new perspectives regarding the development of the synagogue and its significance of this institution for understanding religion and society under the Roman Empire.
Author : David William Milson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047418719
This study is a re-assessment of the impact of Christian art and architecture on synagogues in Late Antique Palestine, focussing on features common to both churches and synagogues. Why did radical changes appear in Jewish art and architecture during a period of competition with Christians?