LEADER 03882nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910825637203321 005 20230801230122.0 010 $a0-674-07057-7 010 $a0-674-06749-5 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067493 035 $a(CKB)2670000000319389 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25018190 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803494 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11508827 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803494 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10810564 035 $a(PQKB)10095708 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301190 035 $a(DE-B1597)178034 035 $a(OCoLC)823170173 035 $a(OCoLC)840437455 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067493 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642236 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000319389 100 $a20120313d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuilding a public Judaism$b[electronic resource] $esynagogues and Jewish identity in nineteenth-century Europe /$fSaskia Coenen Snyder 210 $aBoston $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (350 pages )$cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05989-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAn architecture of emancipation or an architecture of separatism?: Berlin -- "There should be sermons in stone": Victorian London -- From cafe?-chantant to Jewish house of worship: Amsterdam -- "We want a synagogue; the Jews of Paris are ready to pay for it": Paris -- Conclusion. 330 $aNineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers of Jewish life-London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin-Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a marker of acculturation but not of full acceptance. Whether modest or spectacular, these new edifices most often revealed the limits of European Jewish integration. Debates over building initiatives provide Coenen Snyder with a vehicle for gauging how Jews approached questions of self-representation in predominantly Christian societies and how public manifestations of their identity were received. Synagogues fused the fundamentals of religion with the prevailing cultural codes in particular locales and served as aesthetic barometers for European Jewry's degree of modernization. Coenen Snyder finds that the dialogues surrounding synagogue construction varied significantly according to city. While the larger story is one of increasing self-agency in the public life of European Jews, it also highlights this agency's limitations, precisely in those places where Jews were thought to be most acculturated, namely in France and Germany. Building a Public Judaism grants the peculiarities of place greater authority than they have been given in shaping the European Jewish experience. At the same time, its place-specific description of tensions over religious tolerance continues to echo in debates about the public presence of religious minorities in contemporary Europe. 606 $aSynagogue architecture$zEurope$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aJews$zEurope$xIdentity$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aSynagogue architecture$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xIdentity$xHistory 676 $a296.4/6 700 $aCoenen Snyder$b Saskia$01723201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825637203321 996 $aBuilding a public Judaism$94124250 997 $aUNINA