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Jewish Reinvention through the Suburban Synagogue Jewish Reinvention through the Suburban Synagogue
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Not Your Neighborhood Synagogue: The Rise of the Metropolitan Synagogue Not Your Neighborhood Synagogue: The Rise of the Metropolitan Synagogue
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The Privileges of Synagogue Suburbanization The Privileges of Synagogue Suburbanization
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The Price of Leaving the City The Price of Leaving the City
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The Look of Suburban Cosmopolitanism The Look of Suburban Cosmopolitanism
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Spiritual Urbanism and Experimentation in the Suburbs Spiritual Urbanism and Experimentation in the Suburbs
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Death in the Suburban Synagogue Death in the Suburban Synagogue
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Five The Sacred Suburban Sites of Jewish Metropolitan Urbanism
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Published:May 2015
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Abstract
Throughout the United States, Conservative and Reform rabbis were some of the most ardent Jewish supporters of integration and urban equality, yet they also led synagogues away from newly integrated urban neighborhoods and into all white, privileged suburban enclaves. With attention to the architectural shifts that accompanied synagogues’ moves from city to suburb, this chapter argues that rabbis and other synagogue leaders found in architectural modernism a persuasive form for expressing metropolitan urbanism. Enmeshed in urban congregations’ decisions to rebuild their sacred sites in suburbs was a set of tensions that Jews expressed about the terms of their privilege and their connections to cities. Indisputably, monumental suburban synagogue buildings paid visible homage to Jewish socioeconomic privilege—this has been the reigning interpretation of the postwar boom in suburban synagogue building. But the buildings also participated in the process through which Jews reinvented their relationships to cities. In the deliberations that went into constructing these new edifices, Jews continued to reposition themselves within the framework of metropolitan urbanism, asserting a gulf between city space and their new suburban landscape while still connecting themselves to a host of spiritual, cultural, aesthetic, and political ideals framed by their self-perception as an urban people.
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