The Destructive Legacy of the Durban Conference
A blueprint for BDS.
September 23, 2016
German Jews’ Architectural Romance with Medieval Spain
Of Moorish synagogues and Lewis Carroll.
As German Jewry underwent radical change beginning in the late 18th century—with the Jewish Enlightenment, the birth of Reform Judaism, the abandonment of Yiddish, and a transformation in Jewish legal status—many found a model to emulate in the Jews of medieval Spain, at least in the somewhat romanticized picture of them offered by early scholars of Jewish history. Among the effects of this trend was the construction of synagogues in the Moorish style. The grandest of these was the Neue Synagoge on Berlin’s Orienburger Strasse, which Lewis Carroll visited twice and described as “most gorgeous.” John Efron writes:
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German Jews’ Architectural Romance with Medieval Spain
Of Moorish synagogues and Lewis Carroll.