Reconstructing Religions: Jewish place and space in the Jerusalem YMCA Building, 1919-1933

Author: Gitler, Inbal Ben-Asher

Source: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, Volume 60, Number 1, 2008 , pp. 41-62(22)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

This paper discusses the representation of Jewish religion and culture in the architecture of the YMCA Building in Jerusalem, a prominent edifice built by the New York architect Arthur Loomis Harmon for the American YMCA. Within it, Jewish place and space were reconstructed as part of an architecture planned to promote Jewish, Christian and Moslem co-existence through an American secular cultural curriculum and a Christian vision of peace.

Document Type: Regular paper

DOI: 10.1163/157007308783360543

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