The Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Manchester
Extra-Mural Lectures 1998-99
For the full list of lectures, click here
Oct 19 Sharman Kadish: The Architectural Development of the Synagogue:
An Introduction (illustrated): This illustrated lecture briefly explains
the origins of the synagogue in the Bible and Jewish history. The plan of
the synagogue, its liturgical arrangements and furnishings are presented,
and the nature of synagogue art and symbolism examined. The audience is
then invited to join a brief slide tour of synagogue architecture, form
and style, throughout the ages: ancient, medieval and modern. For a bibliography
of the architectural development of the synagogue, click here.
Dr Sharman Kadish is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Jewish
Studies at the University of Manchester and Visiting Senior Research Fellow
in the Faculty of Art & Design at De Montfort University, Leicester.
She was born in London and studied at London and Oxford Universities and
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Bolsheviks
and British Jews (Frank Cass 1992) [winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic
Book Award in 1993] and 'A Good Jew and a Good Englishman': The Jewish
Lads' and Girls' Brigade 1895-1995 (Vallentine Mitchell 1995). She also
edited Building Jerusalem: Jewish Architecture in Britain (Vallentine
Mitchell 1996). She is currently Project Director of the Survey of the Jewish
Built Heritage in the UK & Ireland, which is supported by the Heritage
Lottery Fund, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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