Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century EuropeCoenen Snyder considers what the architecture and construction of nineteenth-century European synagogues reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. The process of claiming a Jewish space was a marker of acculturation but not full acceptance, she argues. The new edifices, even if spectacular, revealed the limits of Jewish integration. |
Contents
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1 An Architecture of Emancipation or an Architecture of Separatism? Berlin | 25 |
2 There Should Be Sermons in Stone Victorian London | 87 |
3 From Café Chantant to Jewish House of Worship Amsterdam | 151 |
4 We Want a Synagogue the Jews of Paris Are Ready to Pay for It Paris | 207 |
Conclusion | 253 |
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