Imagined Portuguese Jews: Cultural (Dis)continuities and the Systematization of Traditions

Pignatelli, Marina

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“…However, rather than describe the phenomenon examined here using predefined concepts, the present article explores the lived experience of people associated with Jewish communities and then develops a framework that explains in conceptual terms the interplay between embodied rituals, the spatial and material forms in and through which these people act, and their cultural stories and histories. Moreover, by recognising Jewish communities as ‘subjects’ rather than ‘objects’ of memory, the article espouses an increased awareness of the social significance of heritage (Martínez-Ariño 2020 , 247; Pignatelli 2020 ).…”

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The Jewish religious heritage continuum : Jewish religious communities’ interactions with synagogues and ceremonial objects in Amsterdam

Ariese

2024

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This article explores how rabbis, directors and members of Amsterdam’s Jewish religious communities view the heritagisation of Jewish religious life by analysing how they interact with Amsterdam’s main synagogues and their collections of ceremonial objects. It focuses on the synagogues of the Jewish Cultural Quarter – the Portuguese Synagogue with its accompanying Sephardi community, and the former Ashkenazi synagogue complex, now the Jewish Museum. From a dynamic heritage perspective, this heterogeneous constellation raises questions about how and why heritage making occurs here. Following a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology, concurrent data collection and analysis let emerge interrelated conceptual categories that explain how communities interact with these functioning and musealised synagogues and objects: Embodying the transmission of tradition ; Instrumentalising the heritage of Jewish religious life ; Transforming the beauty of holiness ; and Assembling in heritagised synagogues . These categories intersect in the core category of the Jewish religious heritage continuum , which this article presents as a dynamic embodiment of remembering, reconnection, and revival of Jewish tradition. For the interviewees, these performances, and the deployment of functioning and musealised synagogues and collections, form a cultural apparatus that marks their present, diverse and living material culture and grafts a Jewish future onto a Jewish past.

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The Jewish religious heritage continuum : Jewish religious communities’ interactions with synagogues and ceremonial objects in Amsterdam

Ariese

2024

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Imagined Portuguese Jews: Cultural (Dis)continuities and the Systematization of Traditions

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The Jewish religious heritage continuum : Jewish religious communities’ interactions with synagogues and ceremonial objects in Amsterdam

The Jewish religious heritage continuum : Jewish religious communities’ interactions with synagogues and ceremonial objects in Amsterdam

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