Jewish Religious Architecture

Steven Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, director of the YU Center for Israel Studies and of the Arch of Titus Project. A cultural historian of ancient Judaism, Fine is a founding editor of Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture.

• PrefaceList of FigureIntroductionSteven Fine1  The Biblical Tabernacle: From Sinai to JerusalemCarol Meyers2  The Temple of Jerusalem in Biblical IsraelVictor Avigdor Hurowitzז״ל3  The Second Temple of Jerusalem: Center of the Jewish UniverseJoseph L. Angel4  Herod’s Temple: An Ornament to the EmpirePeter Schertz and Steven Fine5  Synagogues in the Greco–Roman WorldSteven Fine6  The Ancient Synagogues of Asia Minor and GreeceMark Wilson7  Synagogues in the Islamic WorldJoshua Holo8  Synagogues of Spain and Portugal during the Middle AgesVivian B. Mann9 Western Ashkenazi Synagogues in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeEna Giurescu Heller10  Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern PeriodBatsheva Goldman-Ida11  Christian Perceptions of Jewish Sacred Architecture in Early Modern EuropeYaacov Deutsch12  Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese DiasporaRonnie Perelis13  Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Ottoman EmpireReuven Gafni14  Synagogues in India and MyanmarJay A. Waronker15  Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the PresentSamuel D. Gruber16  Reimagining the Synagogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesJess Olson17  Modern Synagogue ArchitectureSamuel D. Gruber18  The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary HasidismMaya Balakirsky Katz19  The Sukkah as Sacred ArchitectureShulamit Laderman20  The Eruv: From the Talmud to Contemporary ArtMargaret Olin

"(...) this book of essays fills a needed gap in Jewish art and material culture. It is the first that provides an expansive overlook of Jewish architecture from biblical times to our days, attempting to include side by side known and well-studied monuments with lesser-known chapters of the long history and vast geography of the Jewish experience."- Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in: Review of Biblical Literature 08/2021.