RT Article
T1 Building the Great Synagogue of Pest: Moorish Revival Architecture and the European-Ottoman Alliance in the Crimean War
JF The Jewish quarterly review
VO 111
IS 3
SP 444
OP 469
A1 Wilke, Carsten L.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/177210745X
AB In the aftermath of the 1848 revolutions, the search for a symbolic Jewish presence in the urban centers of Central Europe led to the emergence of a monumental synagogue architecture in the Moorish revival style. This new architectural convention experienced a sudden breakthrough in April and May 1854, when it was adopted almost simultaneously in the plans for three major synagogues to be built in Leipzig, Vienna, and Pest. In this article, I will demonstrate that the social and aesthetic agendas of the three community leaderships were interconnected and that they must be understood in the context of the international political events transpiring at the time. In the spring of 1854, Europe witnessed the military and propagandistic run-up to the Crimean War. In the spirit of liberal patriotism, Hungarian Jews identified with the Ottomans against the Czarist Empire and saw the contemporary Islamic-Christian alliance as a globalizing extension of the emancipation process.
K1 Turkophilia
K1 Islamophilia
K1 Ottoman-Jewish relations
K1 Islamic-Jewish relations
K1 Emancipation
K1 Crimean War
K1 Orientalism
K1 Moorish-Byzantine style
K1 Moorish revival style
K1 Synagogue architecture
K1 Philippson
K1 Ludwig
K1 Förster
K1 Vienna
K1 Leipzig
K1 Budapest
DO 10.1353/jqr.2021.0023