Jewish architecture
{{Short description|Branch of architecture associated with Judaism}}
Jewish architecture comprises the architecture of Jewish religious buildings and other buildings that either incorporate Jewish elements in their design or are used by Jewish communities.File:Belz World Center Outside.jpg (2000), Jerusalem.]]
Terminology
Due to the diasporic nature of Jewish history, there is no single architectural style that is common across all Jewish cultures.{{Cite journal |last=Prager |first=Brad |date=2013 |title=Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/525339 |journal=German Studies Review |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=727–728 |doi=10.1353/gsr.2013.0122 |s2cid=161345397 |issn=2164-8646|url-access=subscription }} Examples of buildings considered Jewish architecture include explicitly religious buildings such as synagogues and mikvehs,{{Cite journal|author1-link=Thomas Leslie (architect) |last=Leslie |first=Thomas |date=2011 |title=Review of Louis I. Kahn's Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5703/shofar.29.2.222 |journal=Shofar |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=222–224 |jstor=10.5703/shofar.29.2.222 |issn=0882-8539}} as well as Jewish schools.{{Cite journal |last=Kastner |first=Eitan |date=2010 |title=Yeshiva College and the Pursuit of a Jewish Architecture |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/479555 |journal=American Jewish History |volume=96 |issue=2 |pages=141–161 |doi=10.1353/ajh.2010.0021 |s2cid=162261984 |issn=1086-3141|url-access=subscription }}
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