Der Leopoldstadter Tempel
Eine Dokumentation
by Hermann David Karplus
The Tempelgasse synagogue in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Forster and built between 1852 and 1858, marked a milestone in the annals of Jewish emancipation and architectural history. Located on a narrow alley in what was then the suburb of Leopoldstadt, it was planned to be the first monumental replica of King Solomon’s Temple. Built in a Moorish-Oriental style and with an original projected capacity of 2,240 worshipers, making it Vienna’s largest synagogue, the temple in Leopoldstadt was consecrated on June 15, 1858 in a festive ceremony during which a cornerstone brought from Jerusalem was laid. Yet the project stirred up a controversy: it deviated from traditional Orthodox Jewish practices by seeking to reflect the viewpoints of the evolving Reform Jewish communities of the time. The construction and utilization of this unusual structure thus became a long and intricate affair. In 1917, a major fire destroyed significant parts of the building, necessitating four years of restoration work, which ended in 1921. The Leopoldstadter Temple, where such famous scholars as Adolf Jellinek and Moritz Gudemann delivered their sermons, did not escape the Nazis’ wrath and was destroyed during the 1938 night of pogroms, known as the “Kristallnacht”. In his book, Dr. Hermann David Karplus describes the situation of the Jews in Vienna at the time, providing detailed data and insights into the history of the construction of the building, elaborating on the highly interesting ritual dispute and the dispute over the use of the organ, and offering biographical notes on the community’s most notable public figures: rabbis and preachers, cantors, and other officials. He unearthed plans and documents from the archives of the Vienna Jewish Community in Jerusalem that were believed to have been lost. Numerous high-resolution scans of facsimiles, photos, and design plans are now available to researchers and other interested parties through the publisher’s digital archive.
- By (author) Hermann David Karplus
Other Titles in this Series
Freie Nomaden, edle Rauber, skrupellose Sklavenjager
Zur Darstellung der Turkmenen in Reiseberichten aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
Volume 833
Die bohmischen Lander in den Wiener Zeitschriften und Almanachen des Vormarz (1805-1848), Teil 3
Kunst: Tschechische nationale Wiedergeburt - Kultur- und Landeskunde von Bohmen, Mahren und Schlesien - Kulturelle Beziehungen zu Wien
Volume 855
The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East
Proceedings held at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16-20, 2018
Volume 924
What is beyond the River?
Power, Authority, and Social Order in Transoxiania 18th-19th Centuries
Volume 877
Ein Bestseller der islamischen Vormoderne
Zur Verbreitung von Hvandamirs Habib as-siyar von Anatolien bis auf den indischen Subkontinent
Volume 919
Das Regionale konstruieren
Formen und Funktionen von Heimatschutz-, Reform- und vernakularer Architektur
Volume 940
Formen hofischer Historiographie im 16. Jahrhundert
Geschichtsschreibung unter den fruhen Safaviden: 1501-1578
Volume 861
Old Indo-aryan Morphology and its Indo-iranian Background
In cooperation with Jared S. Klein und Velizar Sadovski
Volume 849
Die Sprache(n) der Wissenschaft
Eine empirische Studie unter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in Osterreich vor dem Hintergrund sprach- und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Befunde
Volume 941
Ish Murad b. Adina Muhammad al-‘Alavi
Jamshidi tavayifi fathi (The Subjugation of the Jamshidis)
Volume 888
Une philosophie de la parole
L'Enquete sur la connaissance verbale (Sabdanirnaya) de Prakasatman, maitre Advaitin du Xe siecle (edition critique, traduction, commentaire, avec une nouvelle edition du commentaire d'Anandabodha)
Volume 901
Die bohmischen Lander in den Wiener Zeitschriften und Almanachen des Vormarz (1805-1848), Teil 5
: Gesamtregister
Volume 887
The Habsburg Civil Service and Beyond
Bureaucracy and Civil Servants from the Vormarz to the inter-war years
Volume 892
Similar Books
‘For You I Study, For You I Work, For You I Live, For You I Am Ready To Even Give My Life’
Essays in Honour of Francis (Frank) J Moloney, SDB
A Late Antique Harrowing of Hell and Its Medieval Reception
Eusebius of Alexandria's Sermons 15 and 17 (CPG 5524; 5526) and their Latin Rewritings
Volume 99
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Circulation, Use, Impact
The Consumption of Architectural Books in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic
Volume 1
Drunk the Potion, No Whit Charmed
The Doctrine of Pure and Perfect Souls from Iamblichus to Damascius
Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
Fear, Fear of God, God-Fearers
Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Late Antique villae in the Balkans (3rd–7th c. AD): Current Research Questions and Perspectives
HAEMUS Companion to the Late Antique Balkans 1
Volume 4
Legal Visuality
Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period
Liturgia semper reformanda
Adaptations and accommodations in the liturgy in light of canon 838 of the Code of Canon Law
Pre-Christian Religions, Rituals, and Beliefs in Central and Northern Europe
Interdisciplinary Investigations
Volume 5
The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life
A Contextual Reading of Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa
