Note: "This volume comprises the papers of the International Conference on Jewish Architecture in Europe held at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in October 2007 and it is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Bezalel Narkiss - an exceptional man and scholar." , Bezalel Narkiss 1926-2008 , Published works of Bezalel Narkiss ; Preface , Foreword , Notes on the place and the subject , Jewish architecture in Europe : an introduction , Sacred space : interrelations between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic architecture , Medieval synagogues of the Mediterranean region , The reflection of the temple in French synagogues , The Mediterranean Sephardi pattern and its influence on the national Jewish idea of architecture , Aims and future directions of research on Eastern European synagogues , Gothic survival in synagogues of Eastern Europe , Bimot in Polish stone synagogues until 1650 : forms, function, and religious aspects , Nineteenth-century synagogue typology in historic Hungary , An introduction to the history and architecture of Bohemian and Moravian synagogues , Synagogue architecture and Jewish heritage in Slovakia , The mellahs of Mogador : an example of cohabitation and tolerance in Morocco , Shtetl houses and synagogues : from the history of architecture to stories about architectural monuments , The Jewish settlement in Floss, Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) , Synagogues in Bulgaria : a testimony of eighteen centuries of Jewish presence in the Balkans , The St. Petersburg Jewish community and the capital of the Russian empire : an architectural dialogue , The influence of the Russian conquest on the Central Asian synagogue , "Sha'ar ha-Shamayim" : London's Bevis Marks Synagogue and the Sephardi architectural heritage , Halakhic rules in synagogue architecture , From Amsterdam to Berlin : some reflections on baroque synagogues and their environment in protestant lands , Towards a Jewish topography of Berlin , The architecture of Berlin's Jewish communities till 1945 , Methods and results of building archaeology : the baroque synagogue of Reckendorf, Franconia , Built Jewish history in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , The Walworth Road Synagogue in Dublin : the Irish Jewish Museum , Synagogues in Switzerland : Lengnau and Endingen , Neo-Gothic synagogues in German-speaking areas : Max Fleischer's synagogue in the Schmalzhofgasse in Vienna, a result of its urban environment? , New beginnings of Jewish architecture in Germany after 1945 : Ernst Guggenheimer's Stuttgart synagogue , Is there a Jewish architecture? , Does contemporary Jewish architecture exist?

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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-289) and index