A book of valuable essays on Jewish religious architecture was recently published by Brill. Edited by Steven Fine, Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism is the first volume in a new series on Jews, Judaism, and the Arts inaugurated by Brill.
The web site description states:
Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit. This volume stretches from the biblical Tabernacle to Roman Jerusalem, synagogues spanning two millenia and on to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together here to present this extraordinary architectural tradition. The multidisciplinary approach employed in Jewish Religious Architecture reveals deep continuities over time, together with the distinctly local— sometimes in surprising ways.
Unfortunately, without institutional access the list price of the book is €165 — with individual chapters priced at €25.
Articles include:
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Mural of Jerusalem, after restoration, private synagogueBedzin, Poland The Second Temple of Jerusalem: Center of the Jewish Universe
Pages: 51–71 -
Tourists in Prague outside the Old-New synagogue. Photo © Ruth Ellen Gruber Western Ashkenazi Synagogues in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Pages: 169–183 -
Ohel of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidim, Medzhybyzh, Ukraine The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary Hasidism
Pages: 334–351
