Search Results - "synagogue"

Just past? the making of Israeli archaeology / by Kletter, Raz

Table of Contents: “…Archaeology and the 1948 war -- Abandoned places, new places -- Foreign aid -- Frozen funds -- A battalion of guards -- Relief work -- Man robs his land : "agreement" with General Dayan -- "Gold of Ophir for Beth-Horon" : 3,000 shekels -- The building beyond the border : the PAM, 1948-67 -- A building of dreams : a home for the IDAM and the origins of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem -- A dead man on the council : the story of the supreme archaeological body in Israel -- "But trust comes from the heart" : travels with the Government Tourist Corporation -- "Whether in a courtyard of a synagogue, in a courtyard adjacent to a synagogue, or under a synagogue" : the Safad affair -- The policy of salvage and early Israeli excavations -- Myths and conclusions.…”
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Just past? the making of Israeli archaeology / by Kletter, Raz

Table of Contents: “…Archaeology and the 1948 war -- Abandoned places, new places -- Foreign aid -- Frozen funds -- A battalion of guards -- Relief work -- Man robs his land : "agreement" with General Dayan -- "Gold of Ophir for Beth-Horon" : 3,000 shekels -- The building beyond the border : the PAM, 1948-67 -- A building of dreams : a home for the IDAM and the origins of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem -- A dead man on the council : the story of the supreme archaeological body in Israel -- "But trust comes from the heart" : travels with the Government Tourist Corporation -- "Whether in a courtyard of a synagogue, in a courtyard adjacent to a synagogue, or under a synagogue" : the Safad affair -- The policy of salvage and early Israeli excavations -- Myths and conclusions.…”
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Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : Kallah's choice / by Milligan, Amy K., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…A hairy subject: approaches to hair and hair covering -- Covering Jewish women: the congregational context -- Splitting hairs: the struggle for community definition in a small town Orthodox synagogue -- Wearing many hats: the hair covering practices of the Orthodox Jewish women at Degel Israel Synagogue -- Letting their hair down: Orthodox women at Degel Israel Synagogue who choose not to cover their hair -- Flipping their wigs for Judaism: non-Orthodox women who choose to cover their heads -- The long and short of it: a psychoreligious interpretation of hair covering.…”
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Hair, headwear, and Orthodox Jewish women : Kallah's choice / by Milligan, Amy K., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…A hairy subject: approaches to hair and hair covering -- Covering Jewish women: the congregational context -- Splitting hairs: the struggle for community definition in a small town Orthodox synagogue -- Wearing many hats: the hair covering practices of the Orthodox Jewish women at Degel Israel Synagogue -- Letting their hair down: Orthodox women at Degel Israel Synagogue who choose not to cover their hair -- Flipping their wigs for Judaism: non-Orthodox women who choose to cover their heads -- The long and short of it: a psychoreligious interpretation of hair covering.…”
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Worship space acoustics by Kleiner, Mendel, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Fundamentals : nature of sound -- Hearing -- Room acoustics fundamentals -- Sound-absorption and sound-absorbers -- Metrics for room acoustics -- Simulation and prediction -- Planning for good room acoustics -- Quiet -- Sound isolation -- Synagogues, churches, and mosques. Synagogues -- Churches -- Mosques -- Appendix. …”
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Worship space acoustics by Kleiner, Mendel, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Fundamentals : nature of sound -- Hearing -- Room acoustics fundamentals -- Sound-absorption and sound-absorbers -- Metrics for room acoustics -- Simulation and prediction -- Planning for good room acoustics -- Quiet -- Sound isolation -- Synagogues, churches, and mosques. Synagogues -- Churches -- Mosques -- Appendix. …”
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Kristallnacht 1938 by Steinweis, Alan E.

Table of Contents: “…"Our path is the right one" -- "This bloody Jewish deed" -- "Now the people shall act" -- "The time for revenge has now arrived" -- "Synagogues ignited themselves" -- "A tempest in a teapot" -- "Defendants and witnesses openly hold back with the truth."…”
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Kristallnacht 1938 by Steinweis, Alan E.

Table of Contents: “…"Our path is the right one" -- "This bloody Jewish deed" -- "Now the people shall act" -- "The time for revenge has now arrived" -- "Synagogues ignited themselves" -- "A tempest in a teapot" -- "Defendants and witnesses openly hold back with the truth."…”
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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 / by Baader, Benjamin Maria

Table of Contents: “…The periodical Sulamith and the beginnings of bourgeois Judaism -- At the crossroads : politics of inclusion and emancipation -- Beyond halakhah : Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century -- The transformation of the culture of prayer -- Bourgeois synagogue devotion -- From male hevrot to modern Jewish voluntary associations -- Modern rabbis and Jewish women -- Conclusion : Women, men and the feminization of Judaism.…”
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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 / by Baader, Benjamin Maria

Table of Contents: “…The periodical Sulamith and the beginnings of bourgeois Judaism -- At the crossroads : politics of inclusion and emancipation -- Beyond halakhah : Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century -- The transformation of the culture of prayer -- Bourgeois synagogue devotion -- From male hevrot to modern Jewish voluntary associations -- Modern rabbis and Jewish women -- Conclusion : Women, men and the feminization of Judaism.…”
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Reading Paul's letter to the Romans

Table of Contents: “…Sumney -- To the churches within the synagogues of Rome / Mark D. Nanos -- The gentile-encoded audience of Romans: the church outside the synagogue / Andrew Das -- Reading Romans in the capital of the empire / Sylvia C. …”
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Reading Paul's letter to the Romans

Table of Contents: “…Sumney -- To the churches within the synagogues of Rome / Mark D. Nanos -- The gentile-encoded audience of Romans: the church outside the synagogue / Andrew Das -- Reading Romans in the capital of the empire / Sylvia C. …”
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Inscribing devotion and death archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Stern, Karen B.

Table of Contents: “…Toward a cultural history of Jewish populations in Roman North Africa -- Locating Jews in a North African world -- Naming like the neighbors: Jewish onomastic practices in Roman North Africa -- Inscribing the dead to describe the living: reading Jewish identity through funerary language -- Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African synagogue: Hammam Lif as a case study -- North African Jewish responses to death: choosing appropriate gods, neighbors, and houses in the afterlife.…”
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Inscribing devotion and death archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Stern, Karen B.

Table of Contents: “…Toward a cultural history of Jewish populations in Roman North Africa -- Locating Jews in a North African world -- Naming like the neighbors: Jewish onomastic practices in Roman North Africa -- Inscribing the dead to describe the living: reading Jewish identity through funerary language -- Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African synagogue: Hammam Lif as a case study -- North African Jewish responses to death: choosing appropriate gods, neighbors, and houses in the afterlife.…”
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Kaddish : women's voices / by Ashkenas, Barbara

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Kaddish : women's voices / by Ashkenas, Barbara

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Dynamics of identity in the world of the early Christians associations, Judeans, and cultural minorities / by Harland, Philip A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- pt. 1: Judean and Christian identities in the context of associations -- Associations and group identity among Judeans and Christians -- Local cultural life and Christian identity : "Christ-bearers" and "fellow-initiates" -- pt. 2: Familial dimensions of group identity -- "Brothers" in associations and congregations -- "Mothers" and "fathers" in associations and synagogues -- pt. 3: Identity and acculturation among Judeans and other ethnic associations -- Other diasporas : immigrants, ethnic identities, and acculturation -- Interaction and integration : Judean families and guilds at Hierapolis -- pt. 4: Group interactions and rivalries -- Group rivalries and multiple identities : associations at Sardis and Smyrna -- Perceptions of cultural minorities : anti-associations and their banquets.…”
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Dynamics of identity in the world of the early Christians associations, Judeans, and cultural minorities / by Harland, Philip A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- pt. 1: Judean and Christian identities in the context of associations -- Associations and group identity among Judeans and Christians -- Local cultural life and Christian identity : "Christ-bearers" and "fellow-initiates" -- pt. 2: Familial dimensions of group identity -- "Brothers" in associations and congregations -- "Mothers" and "fathers" in associations and synagogues -- pt. 3: Identity and acculturation among Judeans and other ethnic associations -- Other diasporas : immigrants, ethnic identities, and acculturation -- Interaction and integration : Judean families and guilds at Hierapolis -- pt. 4: Group interactions and rivalries -- Group rivalries and multiple identities : associations at Sardis and Smyrna -- Perceptions of cultural minorities : anti-associations and their banquets.…”
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An island called home returning to Jewish Cuba / by Behar, Ruth, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Looking for Henry -- A Kaddish for the Jews who rest in Jewish cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's mother who does not -- A tour of Havana's synagogues -- The kosher butcher shop -- The shirt that holds sadness -- Los Prinstein -- In the realm of lost things -- How to pack your suitcase -- Enrique Bender's blue-green eyes remind me of my grandfather -- The dancing Turk -- Monday morning in Luyanó -- Danayda Levy's school report -- May Day with a Jewish communist -- The whispering writer -- The three things José Martí said all real men had to do -- Einstein in Havana -- Salomón the schnorrer -- Mr. …”
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An island called home returning to Jewish Cuba / by Behar, Ruth, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Looking for Henry -- A Kaddish for the Jews who rest in Jewish cemeteries in Cuba and for Raquel's mother who does not -- A tour of Havana's synagogues -- The kosher butcher shop -- The shirt that holds sadness -- Los Prinstein -- In the realm of lost things -- How to pack your suitcase -- Enrique Bender's blue-green eyes remind me of my grandfather -- The dancing Turk -- Monday morning in Luyanó -- Danayda Levy's school report -- May Day with a Jewish communist -- The whispering writer -- The three things José Martí said all real men had to do -- Einstein in Havana -- Salomón the schnorrer -- Mr. …”
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