Book Description
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 : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0814775829
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 : Samuel Gruber
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
American Synagogues is the first book to explore the exceptional architecture of modern American synagogues in the twentieth century, and this intriguing book relates the fascinating history of the Jewish people in America and how it is expressed in twentieth-century synagogue design. The book features all new photography of synagogues in many styles from a dozen states, many never before published in any form. The synagogues were designed by European masters, the best-known modern American architects, and by important contemporary architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Minoru Yamasaki.
Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Jewish community centers
ISBN : 9780874518931
The evolution of an American institution that reflects the unique tension between Judaism and Jewishness.
Author : Leon A. Jick
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
A classic account of the growth and development of Reform Judaism in 19th century America is now in paperback with a new Foreword.
Author : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190490276
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 : Henry Stolzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864700749
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 : Rachel B. Gross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Homesickness
ISBN : 1479820512
Author : Susan G. Solomon
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 161168868X
In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.
Author : Rabbi Sidney Schwarz, PhD
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158023657X
The Jewish community has lost some of the most sensitive spiritual souls of this generation. They are Jews who were looking for God and found spiritual homes outside of Judaism. Their journeys traversed the Jewish community, but nothing there beckoned them. The creation of synagogue-communities in which the voices of seekers can be heard and their questions can be asked will challenge many loyalist Jews. It will upset and enrage them. But it would also enrich them. —from Chapter 18 In this fresh look at the spiritual possibilities of American Jewish life, Rabbi Sidney Schwarz presents the framework for a new synagogue model—the synagogue community—and its promise to transform our understanding of the synagogue and its potential for modern Judaism. Schwarz profiles four innovative synagogues—one from each of the major movements of Judaism—that have had extraordinary success with their approach to congregational life and presents practical ways to replicate their success. Includes a discussion guide for study groups and book clubs as well as a new afterword by the author describing developments in synagogue change projects since the book was first published.
Author : Karla GOLDMAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674037774
Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society. Goldman focuses on the nineteenth century. This was an era in which immigrant communities strove for middle-class respectability for themselves and their religion, even while fearing a loss of traditions and identity. For acculturating Jews some practices, like the ritual bath, quickly disappeared. Women's traditional segregation from the service in screened women's galleries was gradually replaced by family pews and mixed choirs. By the end of the century, with the rising tide of Jewish immigration from Russia and Eastern Europe, the spread of women's social and religious activism within a network of organizations brought collective strength to the nation's established Jewish community. Throughout these changing times, though, Goldman notes persistent ambiguous feelings about the appropriate place of women in Judaism, even among reformers. This account of the evolving religious identities of American Jewish women expands our understanding of women's religious roles and of the Americanization of Judaism in the nineteenth century; it makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in America.