Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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British Books
Author: Building a Public Judaism
Author: Saskia Coenen SnyderPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
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 of Jewish life—London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin—Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a marker of acculturation but not of full acceptance. Whether modest or spectacular, these new edifices most often revealed the limits of European Jewish integration. Debates over building initiatives provide Coenen Snyder with a vehicle for gauging how Jews approached questions of self-representation in predominantly Christian societies and how public manifestations of their identity were received. Synagogues fused the fundamentals of religion with the prevailing cultural codes in particular locales and served as aesthetic barometers for European Jewry’s degree of modernization. Coenen Snyder finds that the dialogues surrounding synagogue construction varied significantly according to city. While the larger story is one of increasing self-agency in the public life of European Jews, it also highlights this agency’s limitations, precisely in those places where Jews were thought to be most acculturated, namely in France and Germany. Building a Public Judaism grants the peculiarities of place greater authority than they have been given in shaping the European Jewish experience. At the same time, its place-specific description of tensions over religious tolerance continues to echo in debates about the public presence of religious minorities in contemporary Europe.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Ninth Annual Report
Author: New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment StationPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Women's History Sources: Collections
Author: Andrea HindingPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: The Publisher
Author: Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: M-Z and additions to June, 1889
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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