Saskia Coenen Snyder
Biographic Data
| ID | 2307631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saskia Coenen Snyder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saskia Coenen |
| FAMILY NAME | Snyder |
| SIGNATURE | SNYDER S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Hunger Winter
“As Long as It Sparkles!”
After the discovery of vast diamond deposits in South Africa in 1869, the transatlantic trade in diamonds accelerated precipitously. The majority of extracted rough stones were sent via London to Amsterdam, where they were cleaved, cut, and polished by working-class Jews and non-Jews in factories across the city. The diamond became highly significant in nineteenth-century Amsterdam Jewish life, providing economic sustenance to a solid 50 percent …
Di Gildene Royze
This pictorial account of the Turei Zahav or the Nachmanowicz synagogue in L'viv, Ukraine, also known as Di Gildene Royze (The Golden Rose), is the third volume in the bilingual Studies of the Bet
Ari Joskowicz. The Modernity of Others
At first sight, the topic of Ari Joskowicz's excellent study of political and cultural milieus in nineteenth-century France and Germany does not invite particular excitement. There already exists a rich body of historical literature that analyzes the different paths of modernity in Europe's long nineteenth century, and France and Germany have received elaborate attention in these scholarly debates. Furthermore, the advancement of secularization a…
Building a Public Judaism
Nineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers of Jewish life—London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin—Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a m…
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Building a Public Judaism
Nineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers of Jewish life—London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin—Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a m…
Ari Joskowicz. The Modernity of Others
At first sight, the topic of Ari Joskowicz's excellent study of political and cultural milieus in nineteenth-century France and Germany does not invite particular excitement. There already exists a rich body of historical literature that analyzes the different paths of modernity in Europe's long nineteenth century, and France and Germany have received elaborate attention in these scholarly debates. Furthermore, the advancement of secularization a…
Di Gildene Royze
This pictorial account of the Turei Zahav or the Nachmanowicz synagogue in L'viv, Ukraine, also known as Di Gildene Royze (The Golden Rose), is the third volume in the bilingual Studies of the Bet
“As Long as It Sparkles!”
After the discovery of vast diamond deposits in South Africa in 1869, the transatlantic trade in diamonds accelerated precipitously. The majority of extracted rough stones were sent via London to Amsterdam, where they were cleaved, cut, and polished by working-class Jews and non-Jews in factories across the city. The diamond became highly significant in nineteenth-century Amsterdam Jewish life, providing economic sustenance to a solid 50 percent …
The Hunger Winter
History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)