Building a public Judaism : synagogues and Jewish identity in nineteenth-century Europe /

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Nineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coenen Snyder, Saskia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Synagogue architecture > Europe > History > 19th century.
Jews > Europe > Identity > History > 19th century.
Architecture synagogale > Europe > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Juifs > Europe > Identité > Histoire > 19e siècle.
RELIGION > Judaism > Rituals & Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Religious.
Jews > Identity
Synagogue architecture
Synagogor > historia.
Arkitektur och religion.
Judar > historia.
Identitet (religion)
Judendom.
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An architecture of emancipation or an architecture of separatism?: Berlin
  • "There should be sermons in stone": Victorian London
  • From café-chantant to Jewish house of worship: Amsterdam
  • "We want a synagogue; the Jews of Paris are ready to pay for it": Paris
  • Conclusion.

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