The Synagogue
Author: H. A. Meek
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2003-10-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780714843292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An engaging exploration of synagogues, their history and decoration.
Author: H. A. Meek
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2003-10-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780714843292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An engaging exploration of synagogues, their history and decoration.
Author: Rachel B. Gross
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1479820512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark H. Podwal
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780152066789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the legend of how the world's oldest active synagogue was built in Prague by angels and that a golem has lived within its walls ever since.
Author: Zev Eleff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0190490276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Zev 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: Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011-04-18
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0814775829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Gerard R. Wolfe
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0823250008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic book on the Lower East Side's synagogues and their congregations, past and present-now back in print in a completely revised and expanded edition
Author: Henry Stolzman
Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781864700749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Rivka Dorfman
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through words and more than 300 exquisite photographs, Synagogues Without Jews tells the engaging histories of over thirty Jewish communities across Europe that thrived before WWII. Beautiful full colour photographs and architectural drawings bring back the past splendor of these synagogues and once again we can see why they were the pride and joy of their congregations.
Author: Annie Polland
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0300124708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Steven Fine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beautiful illustrations and maps transport the reader into the remains of synagogues as far afield as North Africa, Italy, Asia Minor, Israel, and Syria. Sacred Realm complements an exhibition organized by the Yeshiva University Museum in New York. The exhibition brings together archaeological artifacts and manuscripts from museums in North America, Europe, and Israel, most of which have never before been displayed in the Unites States.