
S01 E03: Identities and Communities in the Diaspora: The Case of "Religion"
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Jews Respond to Assimilation Demands
The offer to be integrated and to become citizens they could not reject. They did comply, but they did so while also marking in myriad ways their resistance, their doubts, and partial subversion. While the large syno gogues they built in cities across europe in the nineteenth century,. mostly non jewish architects worked with jewish communities to develop an architectural style that would distinguish synagogues from other public buildings. Particular churches. The oriental or moorish style had already been in use, occasionally, for secular buildings, such as the brighton pavilion. And actually visits the synagogue arm of berlin and its model after the brighton Pavilion. This just one example
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