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Architecture and Architects. Archaeology has provided information about "Israelite" architectural practices from the 10 th to 6 th centuries B.C.E., and to "Jewish" styles of building and decoration from the late Hellenistic period (1 st century B.C.E.) and later.
Jewish architecture comprises the architecture of Jewish religious buildings and other buildings that either incorporate Jewish elements in their design or are used by Jewish communities. Oriental style— Belz Great Synagogue (2000), Jerusalem.
Kravtsov. Studies of Jewish sacred and profane structures in Central-Eastern Europe started in the 19th century. The Jewish architecture was documented and considered by architects, art and architectural historians, ethnographers, photographers, artists, writers and poets.
A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue to illuminate the social, historical, and religious context of an Eastern-European Jewish community. Jarrassé, Dominique.
In both Europe and in the Muslim world, old synagogues with elaborate interior architecture can be found hidden within nondescript buildings. Where the building of synagogues was permitted, they were built in the prevailing architectural style of the time and place.
We shall first describe the most significant remains of Jewish art and architecture from late antiquity, and then present some of the major issues that have emerged in the wake of these discoveries, not the least of which will be an attempt to answer the questions raised above.
Jewish Religious Architecture builds on the traditions of earlier histories of Jewish culture, from Zunz to Wischnitzer and Roth in its stress on the devel- opment of a particular genre of evidence over time and place.
