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Author : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190624675
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 : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 0190490292
Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Annie Polland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300124705
New York City’s magnificent Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 in response to the great wave of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution in eastern Europe. Finding their way to the Lower East Side, the new arrivals formed a vibrant Jewish community that flourished from the 1850s until the 1940s. Their synagogue served not only as a place of worship but also as a singularly important center in the development of American Judaism. A near ruin in the 1980s that was recently reopened after a massive twenty-year restoration, the Eldridge Street Synagogue has been named a National Historic Landmark. But as Bill Moyers tells us in his foreword, the synagogue is also “a landmark of the spirit, . . . the spirit of a new nation committed to the old idea of liberty.” Annie Polland uses elements of the building’s architecture—the façade, the benches, the grooves worn into the sanctuary floor—as points of departure to discuss themes, people, and trends at various moments in the synagogue’s history, particularly during its heyday from 1887 until the 1930s. Exploring the synagogue’s rich archives, the author shines new light on the religious life of immigrant Jews, introduces various rabbis, cantors and congregants, and analyzes the significance of this special building in the context of the larger American-Jewish experience. For more information, go to: www.EldridgeStreet.org
Author : Heather A. McKay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004507449
Sabbath worship as a communal event does not feature in the Hebrew Bible. In the context of the first century CE, according to Philo and Josephus, the sabbath gatherings took place only for the purpose of studying the law, and not for the liturgical recital of psalms or prayer. Classical authors depict Jews spending the sabbath at home. Jewish inscriptions provide no evidence of sabbath-worship in prayer-houses (proseuchai), while the Mishnah prescribes no special communal sabbath activities. The usual picture of Jews going on the sabbath to the synagogue to worship thus appears to be without foundation. It is even doubtful that there were synagogue buildings, for "synagogue" normally meant "community." The conclusion of this study, that there is no evidence that the sabbath was a day of communal Jewish worship before 200 CE, has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of early Jewish-Christian relationships. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
Author : United Synagogue (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : London (England)
ISBN : HARVARD:HWMZ9I
Author : Jeremy Hugh Baron
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761851089
During the last twelve years, Dr. Baron has led fifty pre-Sabbath-service seminars at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, New York and/or the New London Synagogue. These didactic essays explore the Bible, theology, liturgy, social responsibility, and the arts - from Who wrote the Bible? to Mark Twain's Concerning the Jews. Each chapter examines a problem that had perplexed Baron, and for which he provides a detailed evidence-based review together with sources. He pursues each issue from hundreds or thousands of years ago to the present, including both the Diaspora and Israel. He looks at what countries bordering Palestine had discussed and practiced, and scrutinizes the attitudes of other Abrahamic and Eastern religions and their differing denominations. Finally, he attempts to assess the relevance of each topic for the twenty-first century.
Author : Raymond Apple,Great Synagogue (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0868409278
"Sydney’s Great Synagogue (aka the Big Shule), constructed in 1878, is a significant heritage building and its congregation, which is 50 years older than the building itself, has made a major contribution to Australian life. This book, by its emeritus rabbi, traces the vital role of the Great Synagogue in the life of its congregation and the history of Australia." -- Publisher.
Author : J. David Bleich
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0870684507
Author : Brian De Breffny
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015035327249
Author : Jordan Lee Wagner
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461631880
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 : John Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317832423
The designs of synagogues and churches are acknowledged to be very alike. But the designers' procedure was confidential, and so far standard explanations have been unsatisfactory. A synagogue should express heavenly values with earthly materials. This combination was in fact expressed in numbers, for, as Plato said, they linked heaven and earth. Scripture described both the Jewish Tabernacle and Temple with a wealth of numbers. Proportions based on these numbers were used to design synagogues. Only a few Jewish documents survive, but they reveal a symbolism, which Christians sometimes repeat. The synagogue sanctuary was designed to contain the 'Holy Ark', and the mosaic floors reveal the point 'Before the Ark' for the prayers and readings. These places faced each other, with the idea that God was facing his people. The synagogue was seen as facing heaven and in church buildings Christians repeated the same proportions. This was a joint tradition among Jews and Christians. It was easy to design, was carried out secretly and accurately, and - without a computer - was extremely hard to unravel. This book, for the first time, does just that.
Author : Chad S. Spigel
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Jews
ISBN : 3161518799
Revised and expanded thesis (Ph.D.) - Duke University, Durham, NC, 2008.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475395486