IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 821: Of Stone, Iron, and Wax: The Materiality of Medieval Synagogues
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, St Pölten |
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Organiser: | Birgit Wiedl, Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, St. Pölten |
Moderator/Chair: | Irven Resnick, Department of Philosophy & Religion, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga |
Paper 821-a | Material and Symbolic Significance of Synagogues in 14th-Century Castile (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Law, Religious Life |
Paper 821-b | 'Every man and every women shall light a candle in the Synagogue…': Existence, Form, and Function of Candles in Medieval Ashkenaz (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Liturgy, Religious Life, Social History |
Abstract | The synagogue has long been recognised as the religious, spiritual, and social centre of medieval Jewish communities. In this session, the papers focus on material aspects of ashkenazic and sefardic synagogues and their interior. The speakers aim at exploring as to how the materiality of the building, its entrance, and religious ceremonies inside contribute to Jewish (group) identity and medieval Jewish life in general. |