Jewish architecture in Europe
By: edited by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen H. Thies
Contributors: Narkiss, Bezalel
Series: Schriften der Bet Tfila--Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa -- Bd. 6; Schriften der Bet Tfila--Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa -- Bd. 6.
Publisher: Imhof
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Petersberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9783865683465
Subjects: Jewish architecture; Synagogue architecture; Congresses
Notes: "Bezalel Narkiss, in memoriam."

Papers from on Oct. 2007 conference held at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

Includes bibliography of Bezalel Narkiss' publications.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bezalel Narkiss 1926-2008 / Elisheva Revel-Neher; title: Published works of Bezalel Narkiss; title: Preface / Jürgen Hesselbach; title: Foreword / Aliza Cohen-Mushlin; title: Notes on the place and the subject / Harmen H. Thies; title: Jewish architecture in Europe : an introduction / Harmen H. Thies; title: Sacred space : interrelations between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic architecture / Bezalel Narkiss; title: Medieval synagogues of the Mediterranean region / Samuel D. Gruber; title: The reflection of the temple in French synagogues / Dominique Jarrassé; title: The Mediterranean Sephardi pattern and its influence on the national Jewish idea of architecture / Miguel Ángel Espinosa Villegas; title: Aims and future directions of research on Eastern European synagogues / Eleonora Bergman; title: Gothic survival in synagogues of Eastern Europe / Sergey R. Kravtsov; title: Bimot in Polish stone synagogues until 1650 : forms, function, and religious aspects / Tobias Lamey; title: Nineteenth-century synagogue typology in historic Hungary / Rudolf Klein; title: An introduction to the history and architecture of Bohemian and Moravian synagogues / Jarosfav Klenovský; title: Synagogue architecture and Jewish heritage in Slovakia / Maroš Borský; title: The mellahs of Mogador : an example of cohabitation and tolerance in Morocco / Attilio Petruccioli; title: Shtetl houses and synagogues : from the history of architecture to stories about architectural monuments / Alla Sokolova; title: The Jewish settlement in Floss, Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) / Hans-Christoph Dittscheid & Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid; title: Synagogues in Bulgaria : a testimony of eighteen centuries of Jewish presence in the Balkans / Elko Hazan; title: The St. Petersburg Jewish community and the capital of the Russian empire : an architectural dialogue / Vladimir Levin; title: The influence of the Russian conquest on the Central Asian synagogue / Zoya Arshavsky; title: "Sha'ar ha-Shamayim" : London's Bevis Marks Synagogue and the Sephardi architectural heritage / Sharman Kadish; title: Halakhic rules in synagogue architecture / Katrin Kessler; title: From Amsterdam to Berlin : some reflections on baroque synagogues and their environment in protestant lands / Simon Paulus; title: Towards a Jewish topography of Berlin / Hermann Simon; title: The architecture of Berlin's Jewish communities till 1945 / Daniela Gauding & Ingolf Herbarth; title: Methods and results of building archaeology : the baroque synagogue of Reckendorf, Franconia / Hans-Christof Haas; title: Built Jewish history in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Heidi Vormann; title: The Walworth Road Synagogue in Dublin : the Irish Jewish Museum / Ralf Busch; title: Synagogues in Switzerland : Lengnau and Endingen / Isabel Haupt; title: Neo-Gothic synagogues in German-speaking areas : Max Fleischer's synagogue in the Schmalzhofgasse in Vienna, a result of its urban environment? / Sonja Beyer; title: New beginnings of Jewish architecture in Germany after 1945 : Ernst Guggenheimer's Stuttgart synagogue / Ulrich Knufinke; title: Is there a Jewish architecture? / Carol Herselle Krinsky; title: Does contemporary Jewish architecture exist? / Edward van Voolen & Angeli Sachs.