Jewish architecture in Europe / edited by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen H. Thies.

"Bezalel Narkiss, in memoriam."

Papers from on Oct. 2007 conference held at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

Includes bibliography of Bezalel Narkiss' publications.

Includes bibliographical references.

Bezalel Narkiss 1926-2008 / Elisheva Revel-Neher -- Published works of Bezalel Narkiss -- Preface / Jürgen Hesselbach -- Foreword / Aliza Cohen-Mushlin -- Notes on the place and the subject / Harmen H. Thies -- Jewish architecture in Europe : an introduction / Harmen H. Thies -- Sacred space : interrelations between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic architecture / Bezalel Narkiss -- Medieval synagogues of the Mediterranean region / Samuel D. Gruber -- The reflection of the temple in French synagogues / Dominique Jarrassé -- The Mediterranean Sephardi pattern and its influence on the national Jewish idea of architecture / Miguel Ángel Espinosa Villegas -- Aims and future directions of research on Eastern European synagogues / Eleonora Bergman -- Gothic survival in synagogues of Eastern Europe / Sergey R. Kravtsov -- Bimot in Polish stone synagogues until 1650 : forms, function, and religious aspects / Tobias Lamey -- Nineteenth-century synagogue typology in historic Hungary / Rudolf Klein -- An introduction to the history and architecture of Bohemian and Moravian synagogues / Jarosfav Klenovský -- Synagogue architecture and Jewish heritage in Slovakia / Maroš Borský -- The mellahs of Mogador : an example of cohabitation and tolerance in Morocco / Attilio Petruccioli -- Shtetl houses and synagogues : from the history of architecture to stories about architectural monuments / Alla Sokolova -- The Jewish settlement in Floss, Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) / Hans-Christoph Dittscheid & Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid -- Synagogues in Bulgaria : a testimony of eighteen centuries of Jewish presence in the Balkans / Elko Hazan -- The St. Petersburg Jewish community and the capital of the Russian empire : an architectural dialogue / Vladimir Levin -- The influence of the Russian conquest on the Central Asian synagogue / Zoya Arshavsky -- "Sha'ar ha-Shamayim" : London's Bevis Marks Synagogue and the Sephardi architectural heritage / Sharman Kadish -- Halakhic rules in synagogue architecture / Katrin Kessler -- From Amsterdam to Berlin : some reflections on baroque synagogues and their environment in protestant lands / Simon Paulus -- Towards a Jewish topography of Berlin / Hermann Simon -- The architecture of Berlin's Jewish communities till 1945 / Daniela Gauding & Ingolf Herbarth -- Methods and results of building archaeology : the baroque synagogue of Reckendorf, Franconia / Hans-Christof Haas -- Built Jewish history in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Heidi Vormann -- The Walworth Road Synagogue in Dublin : the Irish Jewish Museum / Ralf Busch -- Synagogues in Switzerland : Lengnau and Endingen / Isabel Haupt -- Neo-Gothic synagogues in German-speaking areas : Max Fleischer's synagogue in the Schmalzhofgasse in Vienna, a result of its urban environment? / Sonja Beyer -- New beginnings of Jewish architecture in Germany after 1945 : Ernst Guggenheimer's Stuttgart synagogue / Ulrich Knufinke -- Is there a Jewish architecture? / Carol Herselle Krinsky -- Does contemporary Jewish architecture exist? / Edward van Voolen & Angeli Sachs.