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Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450–1730 Barry L. Stiefel Number 14 JEWS AND THE RENAISSANCE OF SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTURE, 1450–1730 Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World Series Editors: Fernando Cervantes Peter Marshall Philip Soergel Titles in this Series 1 Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy Marion Gibson 2 Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England Sasha Handley 3 Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750 Andrew Redden 4 Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons between Early Modern Wales and Brittany Jason Nice 5 Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany Jennifer Spinks 6 Th e Religious Culture of Marian England David Loades 7 Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700 Laura Sangha 8 Th e Laudians and the Elizabethan Church: History, Conformity and Religious Identity in Post-Reformation England Calvin Lane 9 Religious Space in Reformation England: Contesting the Past Susan Guinn-Chipman 10 Anglo-German Relations and the Protestant Cause: Elizabethan Foreign Policy and Pan-Protestantism David Scott Gehring 11 John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England Oliver Wort 12 Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile Timothy Fehler, Greta Kroeker, Charles Parker and Jonathan Ray (eds) 13 Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany Ken Kurihara Forthcoming Titles Priestly Resistance to the Early Reformation in Germany Jourden Travis Moger Images of Islam, 1453–1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe Charlotte Colding Smith Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800 Jesse Spohnholz and Gary Waite (eds) Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France Jennifer Hillman Indulgences aft er Luther: Pardons in Counter-Reformation France, 1520–1720 Elizabeth C. Tingle www.pickeringchatto.com/religious JEWS AND THE RENAISSANCE OF SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTURE, 1450–1730 by Barry L. Stiefel PICKERING & CHATTO 2014 Published by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH 2252 Ridge Road, Brookfi eld, Vermont 05036-9704, USA www.pickeringchatto.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. © Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd 2014 © Barry L. Stiefel 2014 To the best of the Publisher’s knowledge every eff ort has been made to contact relevant copyright holders and to clear any relevant copyright issues. Any omissions that come to their attention will be remedied in future editions. british library cataloguing in publication data Stiefel, Barry author. Jews and the renaissance of synagogue architecture, 1450–1730. – (Religious cultures in the early modern world) 1. Synagogue architecture. 2. Jews – History. I. Title II. Series 726.3-dc23 ISBN-13: 9781848933637 e: 9781781440100 ∞ Th is publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standard for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by CPI Books CONTENTS Acknowledgements xi List of Figures and Tables xiii Preface xv Introduction 1 1 Medieval versus Early Modern Synagogues 7 2 Jews, Synagogues and Compulsory Urban Consolidation at the Dawn of the Early Modern Period 35 3 Urbanization and Jewish Public Space: Th e First Great Synagogues 61 4 Readmission and Colonial Frontiers: New Synagogues in Lands of Tolerance 83 5 Jews and Early Modern Cultural Exchanges: Cross-Pollination and its Eff ects on Synagogue Design 103 6 Lavishing the House of Assembly: Synagogues, Global Trade and Exotic Ornamentation 135 Conclusion: From Early Modern to Modern: Synagogues in Transition 147 Glossary 159 Notes 161 Works Cited 191 Index 211 … my Intention is to try, if by God’s good hand over me, I may obtaine here for my Nation the Liberty of a free and publick Synagogue, wherein we may daily call upon the Lord our God … Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel, A Declaration to the Commonwealth of England (1655)