Saskia Coenen Snyder: 1 book
Building a Public Judaism
Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Coenen Snyder considers what the architecture and construction of nineteenth-century European synagogues reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. The process of claiming a Jewish space was a marker of acculturation but not full acceptance, she argues. The new edifices, even if spectacular, revealed the limits of Jewish integration.
