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The timely and timeless synagogue : a synagogue for Washington Square, Brookline, MA
The synagogue has always played a crucial role in the life of the Jewish people. It is the embodiment of a religion which dates its proud past as stemming from the beginning of creation. Nevertheless, the passing of time has not diminished the people's fervor in the observation of age-old customs, …
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Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia
Die Arbeit untersucht die Architektur der Synagogen in der Slowakei. Hauptziel hierbei war es, alle vorhandenen Gebäude im Land zu dokumentieren und das Wissen über die zerstörten Synagogen mit Hilfe historischer Bilder und anderer Archivmaterialien in überarbeiteter Form wieder zugänglich zu …
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A synagogue : thesis design
Thesis (B. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, 1907.
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Study and design of a synagogue
… that architectural materials and details of synagogues follow the general history of architecture, as is exemplified in the synagogues of Europe from medieval through contemporary times. The synagogues of thirteenth century Eastern Europe have the ribbed vaulted roof structure typical of …
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Christopher Harvey and George Herbert, With a Critical Edition of Harvey's 'The Synagogue.'
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6200648.pdf: 12907607 bytes, checksum: 3da0b1217aa5afdde4de96101fb9e16c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement
<p>The historiography of Jews in the Civil Rights Movement is extensive, and recent scholarship has reevaluated the relationships between Jews and civil rights organizations. The role of southern Jews in critical states, such as Mississippi, is often amalgamated into one category: supportive but …
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Jewish Multi -Ethnicities in Post -Soviet Russia: An Eventful Ethnography of the Moscow Choral Synagogue
… transformation both inside and outside the synagogue can provide new insights into both post-Soviet ethnography and Jewish studies. Much of the research done on emerging market practices in the former Soviet Union emphasizes the concept of transition and fails to fully address the ways in …
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A spiritual and cultural synagogue center for modern American Jewry : an architectural and sociological study
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1951
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The Organ As Catalyst For Theological Change: The History and Role of the Organ At Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina
… who opposed instrumental music in the synagogue, and reformers, who accepted or promoted instrumental music in Jewish worship. The traditionalists seceded from the synagogue, and the reformers remained, resulting in the formation of the first Reform Jewish congregation in the United …
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From Lineage to Legacy: Charles Garland Verrinder and Victorian Anglo-Jewish Music
… career as the first organist of the West London Synagogue (Britain’s first ‘Reform’ synagogue) overlapped with his work for the church as well as with many significant professional and amateur music societies in London. Across his career he composed and arranged numerous Hebrew liturgical …
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“Jewish, Gay and Proud”
… integration of the first gay-lesbian synagogue Beth Chayim Chadashim, which was founded in Los Angeles in 1972. As early as June 1974, the synagogue was admitted to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella organization of the Reform congregations in the United States. …
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A Study of Faith-Based Environmental Program Leaders and Congregants at Churches and Synagogues in the Mid-South and Mid-Atlantic Regions
… questions were also administered to 10 church/synagogue congregations within the study region. Interview results showed that action leaders were interested in secular and religious partnerships, although they felt that some partnerships may be more appropriate than others. Leaders felt that …
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Aaron Copland's In the Beginning: context and creative process
… upbringing was steeped in Jewish traditions and synagogue life, scholars have minimized the impact of his Judaism on his compositions, which avoided overt references to Jewish themes after the 1930s. This study offers a more nuanced appraisal, showing that In the Beginning encapsulates Copland’s …
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A Time of Angels : a novel
… survivors' names, posted outside Salisbury Synagogue, as it was updated; Geraldine's description of her elderly neighbour's drawers full of embroidered linen - his mother's trousseau - unused and perished by time; and Anthony's experience as an Allied gunner officer in Sansepolcro, Italy, …
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Culture and Exchange: The Jews of Königsberg, 1700-1820
… 1703 and the creation of an organized system of synagogue surveillance in Königsberg that lasted until 1778 and the ways in which provincial and royal authority sustained the position of local synagogue inspector. I also trace the Prussian state's shifting definition of Jewish private synagogues: …
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Amateur and Community-Based Theatre Within Jewish Organizational Spaces in Post-World War II America
… communal sites including Jewish summer camps, synagogues, and Jewish Community Centers across the country. Through case studies including Ladino-inflected productions at a Sephardic synagogue, musical theatre performances on community theatre stages at JCCs, and educationally motivated …
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Faith-based sexual education: A comparison of comprehensive and abstinence-only programs
… a sexual education program at their church, synagogue, or religious institution and again after completing the program. The sexual education programs were divided into three groups based on program content and duration: abstinence-only-short, comprehensive-short, and comprehensive-long. The …
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Women in sacred spaces : an analysis of traditional Islam and Judaism in the communities of Cape Town
… autonomously in the sacred spaces of the mosque, synagogue and home to highlight the customary gendered issues in the related spaces. These gendered sacred spaces are managed via ritual activity detennined in traditional law, which is rooted in genderized cosmogonies and myths founded in theology …
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Separate spheres : women in the responsa of Rabbi Moses Feinstein
… chosen to explore these issues are education, synagogue and ritual responsibility. These three spheres demonstrate Feinstein's commitment to gender separation. Clearly, his ideal of distinctiveness causes him to separate Jew from non-Jew, Orthodox from non-Orthodox as well as female and male. …
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Return to Synagogal values? The Didache’s religious purpose
… accessed Matthew to disagree and return to synagogue. This research will establish viable intertextual links between Matthew and the Didache in response to the differing scholarly views. These intertexts will show the Didache’s propensity for Jesus’ teachings in Matthew. Reading the Didache …
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