The Jewish religious heritage continuum
Jewish religious communities' interactions with synagogues and ceremonial objects in Amsterdam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Ariese (0000-0002-0074-6190, Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam, and Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 799-820 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2024.2334234 |
| PMID | 38774577 |
| OpenAlex | W4394689321 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
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
Archaeology · Ethnology · Judaism · Religious community · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage
“And You Shall Tell Your Son”
Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah
Building a Public Judaism
Grounded Theory for Qualitative Research
Memorylands
Uses of Heritage
Heritage
Beyond the Synagogue
Grounded Theory
Imagined Portuguese Jews
The Loyalty of Tourism in Synagogues
Jewish Spatial Practices in Barcelona as Claims for Recognition
A synagogue, a well, a mikveh and a stele
Introduction
Synagogue as Infrastructure in Everyday Life of Batumi Jewish Community
The Death of Sacred Texts. Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions
The entanglement of things
Heritage Pasts and Heritage Presents
Heritagization of religious sites
Written Remains
Change-But Not Enough Yet
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |