Note: Enthält Literaturangaben

Note: Includes index

Note: Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013 , Enthält Literaturangaben

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Literaturangaben

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-254 , Morality, meaning, and the ritual search for the sacred , Morality, meaning, and the ritual search for the sacred , Heavenly assembly , What's in a bowl? Babylonian magic spells and the origins of Kol Nidre , Sermons and history: the "Marrano" connection to Kol Nidre , Magic of the moment: Kol Nidre in progressive Judaism , Music of Kol Nidre , Kol Nidre: a halakhic history and analysis , Choice, commitment, cancellation: vows and oaths in Jewish law , Kol Nidre: translation and commentary , Kol Nidre from Union prayer book to Gates of repentance , Memories of the past, guidelines for the future , What if cleverness is foolishness and righteousness an illusion? , Words of wisdom or legalese? , Two Torah scrolls and Kol Nidre: the earthly court below , At least credit me with being compassionate , Filling the void , Words mean everything, words mean nothing: both are true , "Woe is me that I have sworn": the power to annul God's vows , Tyranny of perfection , Disruption, disorientation, and restarting: the Kol Nidre road to return , Lifting the curtain: the theatrical Kol Nidre , "It's rather hard to understand": approaching God through sound, not translation , Sound and pageantry: willingness, aspiration, and discernment , Is Kol Nidre typical? , All bets are off , Room with no back, only forward , Imagining nothing , Vote of no confidence , Over-promise, under-deliver ... and then forgive , Courting inversion: Kol Nidre as legal drama , Kol Nidre mirror to our soul , Release beyond words: Kol Nidre even on a violin , Night vision: a gift of sacred uncertainty , Ritualizing Kol Nidre: the power of three , All vows? No! Then, which vows? , How is Kol Nidre like a Dodgers game? , We are the image of God that God leaves behind for history to know , Oath, or My family story , Heavenly assembly , What's in a bowl? Babylonian magic spells and the origins of Kol Nidre , Sermons and history: the "Marrano" connection to Kol Nidre , Magic of the moment: Kol Nidre in progressive Judaism , Music of Kol Nidre , Kol Nidre: a halakhic history and analysis , Choice, commitment, cancellation: vows and oaths in Jewish law , Kol Nidre: translation and commentary , Kol Nidre from Union prayer book to Gates of repentance , Memories of the past, guidelines for the future , What if cleverness is foolishness and righteousness an illusion? , Words of wisdom or legalese? , Two Torah scrolls and Kol Nidre: the earthly court below , At least credit me with being compassionate , Filling the void , Words mean everything, words mean nothing: both are true , "Woe is me that I have sworn": the power to annul God's vows , Tyranny of perfection , Disruption, disorientation, and restarting: the Kol Nidre road to return , Lifting the curtain: the theatrical Kol Nidre , "It's rather hard to understand": approaching God through sound, not translation , Sound and pageantry: willingness, aspiration, and discernment , Is Kol Nidre typical? , All bets are off , Room with no back, only forward , Imagining nothing , Vote of no confidence , Over-promise, under-deliver ... and then forgive , Courting inversion: Kol Nidre as legal drama , Kol Nidre mirror to our soul , Release beyond words: Kol Nidre even on a violin , Night vision: a gift of sacred uncertainty , Ritualizing Kol Nidre: the power of three , All vows? No! Then, which vows? , How is Kol Nidre like a Dodgers game? , We are the image of God that God leaves behind for history to know , Oath, or My family story

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?

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Four approaches to women and the Jewish experience , Jewish feminist approaches to the bible , Women and Torah study in aggadah , Women and Jewish law , Women in medieval Jewish societies , The mystical spirituality of eastern European Jewish women , How central European Jewish women confronted modernity , Women and American Judaism , Women's transformations of contemporary Jewish life , Women in Jewish American literature , Text, nation, and gender in Israeli women's fiction , Women and Judaism : from invisibility to integration