Table of Contents: “…HUMANITY'S PURSUIT OF THE DIVINE IN ARCHITECTURAL SPACE: Pagan landscapes -- Judaism: Biblical spatial imagery and the synagogue -- Christianity: the spirituality of interior space -- Synthesis -- Sec. 3. …”

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Table of Contents: “…. -- To Reconstructionist -- Contemporary Synagogues and Congregations -- A Personal Observation -- Inside the Synagogue -- The Torah and the Law -- Prayers and Blessings -- Symbols-The Mezuzah and the Star of David -- The Role of the Rabbi…”
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Table of Contents: “…Communal functionaries and synagogue officials -- 2.6. The law and the judiciary -- Part Three. …”
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Table of Contents: “….] -- [New lamps] -- [An everyday confusion] -- [The truth about Sancho Panza] -- [The silence of the sirens] -- [A society of scoundrels] -- [Visiting the dead] -- [Night] -- [Our little town] -- On the matter of our laws -- [The troop Levy] -- [Poseidon] -- [Friendship] -- [Our city coat of arms] -- [The Helmsman] -- Consolidation -- [The test] -- [The vulture] -- [Little fable] -- [The spinning top] -- [The departure] -- [Advocates] -- In our synagogue... -- Once upon a time there was a game... -- [Investigations of a dog] -- The married couple -- A commentary -- [On parables] -- Homecoming -- [The burrow]…”

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Forum on Pew Survey, Alan Cooperman -- Chapter 2: Gender in American Jewish Life; Sylvia Barack Fishman -- Chapter 3: National Affairs; Ethan Felson -- Chapter 4: Jewish Communal Affairs; Larry Grossman -- Chapter 5: Jewish Population in the United States, 2014; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky -- Chapter 6: Jewish Population of Canada, 2014; Randall Schnoor -- Chapter 7: Synagogues in the United States, 2014; Jonathan Ament -- Chapter 8: World Jewish Population, 2014; Sergio DellaPergola -- Chapter 9: Jewish Organizational Directory; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky -- Chapter 10: Jewish Press; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky -- Chapter 11: Academic Resources; Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin -- Chapter 12: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries; Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Dubin -- The Jews of Italy in the Triennio Giacobino, 1796-1799 / Geoffrey Symcox -- Singing modernity: synagogue music in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy / Edwin Seroussi -- 'Their true tongue': history, memory, language, and the Jews of Italy / Simon Levis Sullam -- Growing up Jewish in Ferrara: the fiction of Giorgio Bassani / Guido Fink.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Northern Kingdom: Israel, 922-722 BCE -- The writings of Judah: Judah, 722-586 BCE -- The second commonwealth: Babylonia, Persia, and Yehud, 586-520 BCE -- Ezra and the Pentateuch: Persia and Yehud, 520-458 BCE -- Nehemiah to Chronicles: Yehud and Elephantine, 445-350 BCE -- The dawn of Hellenism: Judea, 350-175 BCE -- The Maccabean revolt: Judea, 175-135 BCE -- The holy books: Judea, 135-104 BCE -- The Septuagint: Alexandria, third century BCE-first century BCE -- The Sadducees and the Dead Sea scrolls: Judea, 104-103 BCE -- Jesus and the synagogue: Judea and Galilee, 4 BCE-30 CE -- Paul: Jerusalem and abroad, 37-66 CE -- The Gospels: Judea, 66-100 CE -- Early Christians: Rome and Egypt, 100-200 CE -- The rabbis: Judea, 100-220 CE.…”

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings (586 BCE-135 CE) -- Ch. 2. Separation: Synagogue & Church, Jew & Christian (29-414 CE) -- Conquests & Consequences (395-750 CE) -- Holy Wars & Anti-Semitism (700s-1300) -- The Power of a Lie (1144-1300) -- Refugees from Intolerance (1347-1492) -- In Search of Toleration (1500-1635) -- Safe Havens: Poland & the Ottoman Empire (1200s-1666) -- The Age of Enlightenment & the Reaction (1600s-1848) -- Anti-Semitism in an Age of Nationalism (1840-1878) -- Anti-Semitism in France & Russia: "The Snake ... …”

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Chief priests, Sadducees, Pharisees and Sanhedrin in Acts / Steve Mason -- Synagogues in Jerusalem / Rainer Riesner -- The composition of the Jerusalem church / David A. …”

Table of Contents: “…Republican universalism and the difference between the sexes -- Good neighbours, good husbands and wives, good parents -- Appropriating an area in the name of diversity -- Progressive synagogues and churches in Park Slope -- A cause for gentrifiers -- From lesbian enclave to gayfriendly district -- Family integration, class integration -- Gayfriendliness within the family -- You shall be gayfriendly, my child -- Integration and surveillance of same-sex families -- You will (perhaps) be gay, my child -- The guide for gayfriendly parents -- From tomboy to invisible lesbian…”
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Table of Contents: “…Eighteen Centuries of Jewish Suffering'; 4 'Us' Jews, 'Them' Arabs I: A Message from a Cairo Synagogue, a Thousand Years Ago; 5 'A Land without People ... '; 6 ' ... for a People without Land'; 7 Plucky Little Israel or Great Power Protégé? …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Evolution of the American Synagogue / Jonathan D. Sarna -- 14. Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East Side / Jeffrey S. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Amidah in colonial American synagogues / Dianne Ashton ; Seventeenth century Puritan conversion narratives / Elizabeth Reis ; The Book of Common Prayer and eighteenth-century Episcopalians / Robert Bruce Mullin ; The green corn ceremony of the Muskogees / Joel W. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Before the war -- Shmerke--the life of the party -- The city of the book -- Under German occupation -- The first assault -- Intellectuals in Hell -- A haven for books and people -- A rescued gem: the record book of the Vilna Gaon's synagogue -- Accomplices or saviors? -- The Nazi, the Bard, and the teacher -- Ponar for books -- The paper brigade -- The art of book smuggling -- A rescued gem: Herzl's diary -- The book and the sword -- Slave-labor curators and scholars -- From the ghetto to the forest -- Death in Estonia -- Miracle from Moscow -- After the war -- From under the ground -- A museum like no other -- A rescued gem: Sholem Aleichem's letters -- Struggling under the Soviets -- Tears in New York -- The decision to leave -- The art of book smuggling--again -- Rachela's choice -- Parting duties -- A rescued gem: the bust of Tolstoy and other Russians -- Wanderings: Poland and Prague -- Paris -- Return from Offenbach, or Kalmanovitch's prophecy -- From liquidation to redemption -- The path to liquidation -- Later lives -- Forty years in the wilderness -- Grains of wheat.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The Amidah in colonial American synagogues / Dianne Ashton. Seventeenth century Puritan conversion narratives / Elizabeth Reis... …”
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